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Fair enough but a consultant is an orthogonal role to an employee. This thread is about employees being frustrated with the current state of affairs. A consul

Fair enough but a consultant is an orthogonal role to an employee. This thread is about employees being frustrated with the current state of affairs. A consultant is a business owner. As a consultant, my deliverables are rarely code. They are strategy documents, reports, plans, proposals, market surveys and video conferences. As a contractor, my deliverables are mostly code. Neither of them is similar to an employee's role, although, as a contractor, my deliverables match up with those expected of an employee. Which is why it seems to me that you are conflating consulting with contracting. Perhaps you meant to imply you love working as a contractor not having to deal with what employees have to but employees have to "deal" with it because their role requires it.

eplanit 7y ago
As a consultant, I deliver lots of code in addition to documents. The two are not mutually exclusive. It's sad that employees have to deal with BS like "whiteboard exams". Their role "requires" it only because their employers have followed that trend like lemmings. So, yes I'm very happy to get hired (as a consultant) based on merit and proven experience. I would not call it "orthogonal" (though that does sound smart in those documents), because it's more akin to a parallel than an orthogonal role.
- subhobroto 7y ago
  > Their role "requires" it only because their employers have followed that trend like lemmings You speak as if the employer is a different entity than employees. it's a collective. a composition of employees. The employees bring it upon themselves. Employees have to deal with BS like whiteboard exams because the employees themselves conduct the whiteboard exams! The reason, why you are not subject to the rules of the employee is because you are playing a completely different game. As the employees waste each other's time doing pointless pushups to prove how good of a fit they are at a moving company (after all a physically fit person can move more stuff per hour than one less fit!) you help sign up more customers who need to be moved and make it a more pleasant experience so the same customers remember your client. It might be that you end up doing a few pushups or even move boxes but the real value is in the above. While every employee at a moving company is focused on maximizing their push up count, you make your client come ahead in the market by retaining more customers and sign more up. then repeat

eplanit 7y ago

As a consultant, I deliver lots of code in addition to documents. The two are not mutually exclusive. It's sad that employees have to deal with BS like "whiteboard exams". Their role "requires" it only because their employers have followed that trend like lemmings. So, yes I'm very happy to get hired (as a consultant) based on merit and proven experience. I would not call it "orthogonal" (though that does sound smart in those documents), because it's more akin to a parallel than an orthogonal role.

subhobroto 7y ago
> Their role "requires" it only because their employers have followed that trend like lemmings You speak as if the employer is a different entity than employees. it's a collective. a composition of employees. The employees bring it upon themselves. Employees have to deal with BS like whiteboard exams because the employees themselves conduct the whiteboard exams! The reason, why you are not subject to the rules of the employee is because you are playing a completely different game. As the employees waste each other's time doing pointless pushups to prove how good of a fit they are at a moving company (after all a physically fit person can move more stuff per hour than one less fit!) you help sign up more customers who need to be moved and make it a more pleasant experience so the same customers remember your client. It might be that you end up doing a few pushups or even move boxes but the real value is in the above. While every employee at a moving company is focused on maximizing their push up count, you make your client come ahead in the market by retaining more customers and sign more up. then repeat