People think government is wasteful, but in my experience big corporations are an order of magnitude worse.
I Charged $18k for a Static HTML Page
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#12You should try working in an investment bank as a contractor. You need to find the right team, but a lot of them are massive collections of people doing virtually nothing but getting paid great daily rates. The trick is to look busy and wrap your team/yourself in a perceived sense of enigma and complexity. If you play your cards right, you can end up in a situation where no one will ask questions as long as you fire off an email now and again. You can keep getting paid for doing almost nothing for years.
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#13So much waste - I'm not saying he didn't earn his money but how is it possible for a company to run cash positive when it wastes like that?
RIM would like to know your location
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#14So much waste - I'm not saying he didn't earn his money but how is it possible for a company to run cash positive when it wastes like that?
Large companies operate on a completely different scale of money. If this was a page for a product that's going to make a million dollars, this expense was still a rounding error.
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#15Pfft that's nothing. We just had a contractor charge us $50k to setup a simple HTTP proxy. I looked at the code; it's a .NET starter app with our endpoints in it that route to other endpoints. $50k and it probably took them 2 hours, which was probably mostly just packages downloading.
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#16Amazing. It kind of sound unbelievable, but I don’t have that much experience working with big corporations. This should be read by everyone concerned about, how few people in a startup can beat big corporations
During the early days of "intranets", I worked at a very large company akin to a government organization. I thought we could save paper by putting our reports on the intranet instead of printing it out. There was one particularly important report that had needed to be printed every week, and it seemed like a good candidate.
I called the person who needed the report, but they said they didn't need it, and passed me to the person who requested it from them. I called the next person, and they passed me onto another person. I followed this about 5 people deep until I found one person who told me that they didn't need that report at all.
I left that company within 2 months of joining.
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#17LMAO
should have went https://freepage.io and did it for .... well free
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#18I know someone working as a contractor for a big company.
1 year contract.
6 months have gone by and they've done ... nothing. Their boss keeps saying "Don't worry we'll get to you, we're just swamped right now, you're good."
They're already talking about extending the contract.
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#19Man I thought I was doing good at $1k.
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#20Entertaining story - although as advice to anyone reading it, running up the clock without proactively notifying people that you're going way beyond your original estimate is a very good way to make getting paid incredibly difficult.
I don't disagree, but it's worth noting that at the end of it all, he billed them for $18k and they decided it was too little.