[OT] Was: totally satisfied :D

Paulo Pinto pjmlp at progtools.org
Fri Sep 21 23:54:56 PDT 2012


On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 21:37:23 UTC, Nick Sabalausky 
wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2012 22:13:22 +0200
> "Paulo Pinto" <pjmlp at progtools.org> wrote:
>
>> On Friday, 21 September 2012 at 19:09:48 UTC, H. S. Teoh wrote:
>> >
>> > The saddest thing is that people are paying big bucks for 
>> > this kind of
>> > "enterprise" code. It's one of those things that make me 
>> > never want to
>> > pay for *any* kind of software... why waste the money when 
>> > you can
>> > download the OSS version for free? Yeah a lot of OSS code is 
>> > crap, but
>> > it's not like it's any worse than the crap you pay for.
>> >
>> 
>> Welcome to my world. As a Fortune 500 outsourcing consulting 
>> company
>> employee, I see this type of code everyday.
>> 
>
> I find it depressing to see just how *easy* it is to have
> dailywtf-worthy material. They anonymized my name as Nate here:
>
> http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/We_Have_Met_the_Enemy.aspx
>
> Note also that the "' ...code here" and "' ...more code here" 
> sections
> were typically HUGE.
>
> And that was only scratching the surface of the lunacy that was 
> going
> on there - both in and out of the codebase.
>
> I've been sticking to contract stuff now, largely because I 
> really
> just can't take that sort of insanity anymore (not that I ever 
> could).
> If I ever needed to go back to 9-5 code, or cubicles, or 
> open-floorplan
> warrooms, I'd *really* be in trouble.

One of the reasons that keeps me in the company is the offer 
around
my area. Many of the other companies I would work for, are the 
same
type or I will be forced to switch region for something better.

--
Paulo




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