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If you head development, then you have the power to demand evidence. But I'm afraid for a variety of reasons I work for a company that has outsourced their work
by chris_wot 10y ago
If you head development, then you have the power to demand evidence. But I'm afraid for a variety of reasons I work for a company that has outsourced their work to several good offshore folks, but mostly the most bone-headed, incompetent, inexperienced, dishonest bunch of people o have ever come across (and that's truly saying something). I'm also currently low down the food chain and so like most people I have to rather wary about making specific demands.
I might also mention that I discovered this outsourcer was doing all commands from a root shell, so I now refuse to give specific commands but ask fir the info but I am very deliberate in not giving them the specific commands to get the data.
That said, what I would give to do what you seem to get away with :-)
- majkinetor 10y agoThat is so typical for majority of vendors and the company you work for is irrelevant - I have seen that behavior from all major IT vendors and it is not culture or location specific. I get away with it frequently but not always. You can't imagine how many times I got response 'nobody ever asked that'. What I usually do when that happens is to do one case of their work entirely myself to show a complete working example in real life scenario. That requires certain knowledge about domain in question. I have experience in bunch of tools, platforms and paradigms so I know how to do it about 70% of the time. When I don't, or don't have time for it, I just let it go. But no matter your position, its very probable that your voice will be listened over that of a vendor consultant so if you can educate your boss with WHY (if not, you could go higher or try to influence someone else who can influence the person you want) there is a chance that your words will be taken before that of the external consultant.