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What consequences did you have in mind? The subjective, arbitrary, and capricious cover-my-ass politics that their supervisor, and their supervisors' supervisor
by Iftheshoefits 13y ago
What consequences did you have in mind? The subjective, arbitrary, and capricious cover-my-ass politics that their supervisor, and their supervisors' supervisors will play when something goes awry and they need people to blame?
My opinion is that in-house employees should have "skin in the game" proportional to the equity they hold in the company and the authority/responsibility they wield as a result. Most of that time that's a one-digit, round number. And yet employers think employees should act as if it's a magnificent act of selflessness and beneficence to deign to acknowledge the employee's existence and stoop so low as to offer them work.
- j_baker 13y agoNo. I mean something more along the lines of "Consultant X wrote this unmaintainable piece of crap a while back, and now we need someone to fix it".
- vdaniuk 13y agoArgh, you are both right and I actually must think about subject to reach a conclusion. What a novel experience.
- Iftheshoefits 13y agoAh. Fair enough, and it's a good point since consultants by the nature of their employment likely don't have to deal with the consequences directly. Word-of-mouth, though, they may have to deal with. But so does everybody.