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You aren’t being paid to copy and paste files, you are paid so the company can retain your skills in the event anything goes wrong. If the evidence was gone, c
by nemothekid 5y ago
You aren’t being paid to copy and paste files, you are paid so the company can retain your skills in the event anything goes wrong.
If the evidence was gone, corrupted or needed to be changed , they have someone on staff who can quickly remedy that. Isn’t that the point of a high skill job? You get paid for knowing which screw to tighten, you don’t get paid for tightening screws.
- raisedbyninjas 5y agoAssuming the story is true, they're preying on ignorance. You're describing normal employment and service contracting. The law firm has a huge misconception about the complexity of the task and the human labor required for normal and exceptional operations. Even the spreadsheet sanity checking could probably be automated. This is a few thousand dollars of consultant time to setup, and maybe a few thousand/year to maintain.
- rcthompson 5y agoI think it's actually a bit more subtle than that. The post says the law firm "wanted [them] to be the only person with admin access to the Cloud, everyone else would be limited to view only". I wonder if their job is, more than anything else, to be the person who is legally on the hook if anything goes wrong, because they're the only one with write access.