Geoff Flight wrote: > One of the pros of being a fixed-price developer for much of my work is > no-one cares about the hours you put in - just the result. Years ago I went > to a govt dept on a short term contract, cubicle and all. They needed a VFP > job done but they didnt have the hardware to develop it on (4mb 486 > machines! Mind you the secretary and the manager all had powerful machines > for running word etc!) so they told me to do it at home. They gave me 3 > weeks to do this job which I completed in 3 days. I didn't work 16hours days > just normal 9-5 but with a contractor mentality and not a public servant > mentality (ie I actually worked). It told me why tele-commuting wouldn't > work for most long-term cubicle dwellers. As a rule, 'work' is that thing u > do for 2 hours a day between all the other things. > > Again Dilbert says it perfectly when he asks the question "when I work from > home, do I owe my boss the 8 hours I spend in my cubicle or the one hour in > which I actually work?" > > Dilbert says it all.
Gotta love how accurate Dilbert is, most of the time....it's scary it's so typical! _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[EMAIL PROTECTED] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
