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I have a support contract with a company that I'm absolutely going to lose. I built a platform for them when I was a full-time employee that they're going to at

I have a support contract with a company that I'm absolutely going to lose. I built a platform for them when I was a full-time employee that they're going to attempt to eventually replace using Wordpress plugins. We've tried to explain to them that the 400K users who have accounts with the site are comfortable with using it as is, and we spent months crafting the SEO which would be lost in the transition, but they're looking at cutting costs against all odds, which unfortunately will eventually include my contract. My cost to them is about 3.5% of the revenue from the site, and I suspect that when they switch over, they will lose about 80% to save that 3.5%.

laurent123456 5y ago
I guess they would think you're not impartial in this. Perhaps encourage them to get a third party opinion.
- MisterBastahrd 5y ago
  They've had two different third party opinions who have both told them the same thing, but the company they've contracted with for hosting the CMS portion of their website has told them that they can do this other stuff for cheaper. But to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with, the first thing the new CEO did when she took over was to move all the local Windows servers to a datacenter without consulting with the COO (who was in charge of all IT operations) for why they were in the physical office in the first place. He walked into the office and saw people he didn't know disassembling the racks. The business reason for having the servers remain local is because when you work with print, you're dealing with gigantic files which are best manipulated on a local gigabit network. Even business internet in that area is only 200Mbps down. She didn't understand the technical issue, and she never asked. She just wanted to appear to be professional. With the COO gone, now the IT responsibilities have been shifted onto a mid-30s writer with no technical background. Part of me will hate losing the retainer. The rest of me will be happy to be free of the headache.

laurent123456 5y ago

I guess they would think you're not impartial in this. Perhaps encourage them to get a third party opinion.

MisterBastahrd 5y ago
They've had two different third party opinions who have both told them the same thing, but the company they've contracted with for hosting the CMS portion of their website has told them that they can do this other stuff for cheaper. But to give you an idea of what I'm dealing with, the first thing the new CEO did when she took over was to move all the local Windows servers to a datacenter without consulting with the COO (who was in charge of all IT operations) for why they were in the physical office in the first place. He walked into the office and saw people he didn't know disassembling the racks. The business reason for having the servers remain local is because when you work with print, you're dealing with gigantic files which are best manipulated on a local gigabit network. Even business internet in that area is only 200Mbps down. She didn't understand the technical issue, and she never asked. She just wanted to appear to be professional. With the COO gone, now the IT responsibilities have been shifted onto a mid-30s writer with no technical background. Part of me will hate losing the retainer. The rest of me will be happy to be free of the headache.