I don't know what's special about me, MAJ. I guess I'm lucky in having a
great group of clients that appreciate what I do for their MV systems
(Uv/Ud/D3/Mcd/GA and native) and am not caught up with internal company
policies.
Not that I have an exclusive on being a good MV person nor a good business
person. I do thank my lucky stars that I've grown my business with my
clients and the solutions I deliver, despite some criticisms from those more
technically as advanced than I.
In fact, I just uncovered a $90,000 billing error for one client whereby
another mv programmer had overlooked a basic premise and I caught it during
a year-end analysis that piqued my curiosity. The client had no idea and
when I showed them the error, my next mission became very clearly defined.
I don't work on commission but $90,000 won't be forgotten for a long time. I
guess when my skills go beyond MV programming and venture into standard
business practices then my value to my clients grow. Nothing says that I
can't be good at both.
Hopefully that helps.
Mark Johnson
- Original Message -
From: Tom Dodds [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 12:33 PM
Subject: RE: [U2] testing
That has been my experience, but then I am not MAJ. :-)
Tom Dodds
[EMAIL PROTECTED]
630.235.2975
-Original Message-
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
[mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jerry Banker
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 10:10 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: RE: [U2] testing
We have no discrimination around here, if a site is blocked for one it
is blocked for all, including the person blocking it. If you came in
here on a contract you would be treated the same way. Since you would be
on contract I would be surprised if you had any internet access at all.
Jerry Banker
Sr Programmer Analyst
Affiliated Acceptance Corp
Sunrise Beach, MO
1-800-233-8483
www.affiliated.org
-Original Message-
From: MAJ Programming [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Monday, December 31, 2007 9:48 AM
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Subject: Re: [U2] testing
Anthony:
Then I must not understand what a 'forum' is.
I use the Raining Data forum http://forums.rainingdata.com/ all the
time
(some say too much).
This page has the RD 'products' (D3 NT, D3 Aix, D3 Linux, MvBase etc)
neatly
illustrated like a table of contents and shows the latest posting.
Clicking on a 'product' will give you a listing of the topics within.
It
also shows you the technical announcements and any other top-down
information.
Within the topics themselves, you can see the different topics with
the
originator, number of views and replies and the time/date of the
latest
reply.
This forum is spared a bunch of the static that an email forum offers.
There
are no redundant posts, no comments about trimming extraneous email
content,
no 'Fred is out of the office problems, etc. The topics may take a
non-related tangent but not as pervasive as on the U2 one.
By seeing the latest date for each thread, you can quickly see if the
thread
interests you and if the reply is considered 'new'.
As one who participates on both, the RD one more organized. Ask TonyG.
He's
quite visible on both as well.
While this forum is web-based and an email forum is not, I don't buy
the
argument that employers (clients) prevent internet access by their
employees
as a reason to not participate.
Many of my clients have baracuda or other content blocking firewalls
etc
that I simply am not restricted with. I am considered middle to upper
management by all of my clients as well as many 'employee' programmers
should be. We are not the low man on the office totem pole.
I've got some clients that sharpen their pencil more than most that
allow me
full access to the internet despite instituting strong-armed policies
about
employees mis-using the internet on company time. It's a trust thing.
I'm a
huge ebay participant and would not dare be caught doing ANYTHING with
ebay
at a client's site on their dime.
My 1 cent
Mark Johnson
- Original Message -
From: Anthony W. Youngman [EMAIL PROTECTED]
To: u2-users@listserver.u2ug.org
Sent: Sunday, December 30, 2007 6:33 PM
Subject: Re: [U2] testing
In message [EMAIL PROTECTED], Bill Haskett
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes
Wol:
I just don't get this attitude. Why is it necessary to pick up our
toys
and go home?
To say, if you don't do things my way I'm quitting the team?
There are
too many
postings that forswear any solution that doesn't result in a
complicated
mess of
things.
I don't use forums. I read this mailing list in my spare time, or
snatch
moments at work. I find forums time-consuming, and a pain, and I
have
better things to do with my time (like working :-)
At the end of the day, all too often I find that the web is
