On Sun, Jan 11, 2009 at 7:36 AM, Ken Kixmoeller/fh <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Jan 11, 2009, at 7:26 AM, Stephen Russell wrote: > >>> Didn't you just get that one? >> ----------------------- >> >> Yep Dec. 17 or so. In this economy crummy work is better than no work >> at all. I thank God for giving me work instead of depression of not >> having it. > > I thought there were 2 from which you were choosing? Choose the wrong > one, or the other one a "no-go" (or "not-yet go")? I think doing > anything at most banks these days would be more than tough. Back 15+ > years or so when I had some bank clients they were so backward -- > often my project was their first foray into automating things that in > other businesses would have been done long ago. --------------------
Still waiting on gig I want from the 2. They are doing the Catch-22 route. We need to hire but we are to busy to seek candidates and interview. i have been told by the headhunter that I am #1 but dude in charge wants to see x # of people and he has not as of yet. > You are amazing how you keep getting these gigs. I have said a bunch > of times that for getting actual work, your course is a good one. > > I couldn't do the "6-month on-site contract" thing. Do you go through > agencies, or are you finding them on your own? ------------------------------------ OK I can. :) Because of that ability to come in and tweak my span of knowledge in a variety of industry types. Also get a diversity on how they want it and what they expect out of it. This gig for the bank is an attempt to not purchase SW for configuration management. They had a lack luster product done in house over the past couple of years and needed tweaks to it allowing them to postpone purchase of the real app they want to get. In essence they have a web app that will create a spreadsheet of all applications that you are responsible for. You update that file and mail it in to my group and they run the updater app I just overhauled. they stripped out the rules for making sure data was correct on the front end to give more hours to adding functionality to the web site in collecting 2 new areas of data. Maintenance Contracts and DR which they have not explained as of yet. So I have 6 enhancements to the web, an overhaul of the export/import oh yeah new reporting too!!!! They thought that it would have been completed in 30-40 days because that is how their first guy operated. Well there are hundreds of SPs that function for a few of these processes, and finding out how to tweak one -three just for this new item has been a nightmare. I told them that former dude had common sense in what he wrote. His side of the bank business was sold off so they no longer have him handy. No comments in any part of his code nor any style past I saw the demo from M$ so I did it that way. I have to interact with AD just to get who you are and who you report to. That took two days to put that in, they thought that it was only going take 10 min. :) They keep saying that they don't want to add x and y today just to get this done, then 4 days later they put it in. Oh did I already finish that module and now I have to go back to do it 40 % over again? Would I like to stay longer than 1-2 years at a client/employer sure. Sometimes you get caught up in management blues, sometimes your champion gets promoted and the replacement wants to do things in a new way. All in all I would like longer terms then short turn and burns. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ 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.
