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Posted by Andy Dingley on 10/19/05 00:05
On 18 Oct 2005 02:35:06 -0700, "Travis Newbury"
<TravisNewbury@hotmail.com> wrote:
>So you are telling me that if company XYZ came up to you and said [..]
> Your reply would be "I am sorry,
>my web morals will not let me make such a site for you."
Yes. It's only a contract. I have to think about three things:
Do I want to do it?
Does it pay?
Where does it leave me afterwards, in terms of what I want to do next?
Now penguin wrangling fails on the first and usually third (maybe I like
penguins, I just don't think they're appropriate here). There's also no
real implication that it will pay any better than some other contract.
>a contract that will pretty much set you up for the next year or
>two, but we want a dancing penguin.
I haven't had a contract that would "set me up for the next year or two"
since 2000 or so. The stuff out there these days is penny-pinching
little dog-ends of jobs. You have to look at the big picture for one
thing because the little pictures just aren't a big enough bribe any
more!
Incidentally, I finished a contract today. At one point I said, directly
to my boss' face, that the line of CSS he wanted (absolute font size in
pixels) was written on a post-it in front of him. I explained to him
what it did, why I wouldn't use it, and quite clearly not a word of it
sank in. I then told him I simply _wasn't_ going to code such a line
into the CSS because it was Wrong and that if that ended the contract
there and then I was quite happy about it. The site is still using ems
as it ought and I was there for some time afterwards.
Now maybe tomorrow they'll change it, but that's their right. I'll cut
corners if they want, but I'll not do something that's just plain wrong.
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