Conversation with a Consultant

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by bjaress • 15 years ago

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ricardobeat• 15 years ago

God, I cringed through the whole thing. He went instantly into defensive+verbose mode.

Did the guy end up doing any real work?

bjaress• 15 years ago

He set up separate hosting for some static splash pages and got some information for us from vendors.

I never did get a clear explanation of his role, and he stayed at another site with the project manager, so I really don't know how much work he did, only that I didn't see him do very much.

elgenie• 15 years ago

That was painful to read. I almost expected "What would you say you'd do here?" to show up in the conversation.

ineedtosleep• 15 years ago

My God. If I ever heard the bit from "Well, if you worked for me directly [...]" I would've just stopped him in his tracks and said enough. Even though it's text, any interpretation of that utterance and the ones afterward are completely degrading to the listener.

fondue• 15 years ago

Wow, that reads like a conversation with Eliza.

dantiberian• 15 years ago

Halfway through the post I was expecting it to turn out to be a chatbot, not a real person.

awakeasleep• 15 years ago

This is funny until you work with this guy, he's completely incompetent, but he does everything with the attitude of detached superiority, and your management is ready to hear him tell them how to raise their kids (if he charges this much he must be INCREDIBLE).

Not an easy way to deal with this stuff.

Conversation with a Consultant

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