I have one policy which, every time I break it, ends in tragedy. Never do a Friday Interview. I started this policy over twenty years ago while under contract at Waste Management. While I had done a lot of software development before that, I hadn’t really learned the ins and outs of corporate culture. I learned it there. Corporate policy meant everyone had to come into work on Friday, but, nobody actually had to work. … Never Do a Friday InterviewRead more
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Vendor Management Systems = Price Fixing and Wire Fraud
Price fixing is rampant in IT since Vendor Management Systems were introduced. Indeed, price fixing is the primary reason the systems were adopted. Recently I had an interesting discussion with a pimp about a contract opening. They had posted the contract opening on Dice and tagged the entry as “market rate”, but when the called me, they were offering a billing rate well below half of market rate. Several other pimps had called about this … Vendor Management Systems = Price Fixing and Wire FraudRead more