I saw the exact same situation. Being forced to convert from "hourly
consultant" to "salaried employee" in the post Y2K cutbacks was the worst thing
that has ever happened in my career.
The bean counters see salaried employees as a fixed cost (annual salary) for a
fixed amount of work (assigned project). They fail to recognize any benefit
for "productivity" because the unit of work is a "project", not hours spent.
____________________________
Walter (Bill) Bass | Optum
Senior Applications Development Consultant, Optum Tech App Srvcs Grp - 630
www.optum.com
-----Original Message-----
From: IBM Mainframe Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf
Of DASDBILL2
Sent: Monday, July 07, 2014 12:20 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: "Feebie" software
An example of what I meant: I used to work for a small software vendor as a
consultant, and they were very careful about how many hours I billed them for
my time and what I spent my time doing; i.e., only development. I also was
required to appear at their offices (a 45-minute drive each way) one day a week
for a meeting but could work at home the rest of the week. After a few years
of this, we negotiated a change and I became a salaried employee. My required
presence at their offices was quickly changed to every day of the week, I had
to be uncompensated for my extra commuting time, and they had me spending time
on many non-development tasks, such as proofreading documentation changes. My
time had suddenly become "free" to them to use for any purpose they wanted.
Bill Fairchild
----- Original Message -----
From: "John McKown" <[email protected]>
To: [email protected]
Sent: Monday, July 7, 2014 10:56:47 AM
Subject: Re: "Feebie" software
On Mon, Jul 7, 2014 at 9:35 AM, DASDBILL2 <[email protected]> wrote:
> The loss of time is never "free."
Here, "it depends". If you mean loss of CPU time, very true. If you
mean loss of programmer, et al., productivity time, then "Let them
work longer hours! They can use all 168 hours/week if that's what is
necessary."
>
> Bill Fairchild, Senior Software Engineer
> ASG Software Solutions
>
> Naples, FL
>
> ----- Original Message -----
>
> From: "Shane Ginnane" <[email protected]>
> To: [email protected]
> Sent: Friday, July 4, 2014 10:37:34 AM
> Subject: "Feebie" software
>
> On Fri, 4 Jul 2014 11:18:12 -0400, John Gilmore wrote:
>
>>... and the notion that IBM software is
>>somehow 'free' and that of ISVs is not is among the sillier ones that
>>have currency here.
>
> Hmmm - this must be an invitation to me to respond.
> Small customers (at least) see software included in the base as "free" - and
> ISVs like Dave are paddling a barbed-wire canoe upstream to get a sale.
> Simple as that.
> Believe me, I've been in to bat trying to get ISV software in the door, and
> in a lot of (most) cases it ain't gunna happen.
>
> Shane ...
>
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