http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/ letting the problem solve itself Sat, 30 Jul 2011 00:26:18 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-44097 Phil Williscroft Wed, 30 Jul 2008 23:11:23 +0000 http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/#comment-44097 What about pride in your own work? Thanks God I never contract with such self serving sycophants. Who wants to waste their life plodding about a dead project not doing anything. Sounds like pergatory to me. What about pride in your own work? Thanks God I never contract with such self serving sycophants. Who wants to waste their life plodding about a dead project not doing anything. Sounds like pergatory to me.

]]> http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-199 Software As She’s Developed - The Contractors Who Waste Time Thu, 09 Feb 2006 09:05:04 +0000 http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/#comment-199 [...] Carlos Viellas has been watching contractors waste time (emphasis mine): As I see it, there are two positive incentives: peer pressure in justifying rates, and collecting good contacts and references. In the situations we have been witnessing, those pale next to doing whatever is possible to extend the contract, which more often than not are some incarnation of finger-pointing, back-stabbing or just plain inaction in order to make the project as late as possible. By extending the contract, they can ensure there’s always time to fix the mess created by blaming everyone else but their contracting buddies (those who’ll happily point them to new gigs) and pretending to work harder than everybody else by assuming authorship of other people’s work and ideas, while happily surfing the web all day. [...]

]]> http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/comment-page-1/#comment-198 Ron Avitzur Mon, 06 Feb 2006 00:13:00 +0000 http://www.lixo.org/archives/2006/02/05/contracting-and-the-stockholm-syndrome/#comment-198 Aw, shucks. Just doing my job. But thank you. Aw, shucks. Just doing my job. But thank you.

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