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Posted by TJ on 10/19/05 01:40
Andy Dingley wrote:
> 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.
Bull.
> It's only a contract.
"*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?
So which is it? Is it that you don't really care about feeding your family
as long as your "web morals" remain intact, or are you independantly
wealthy?
> 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.
So long as it pays? Personally, I don't care.
>> 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!
Without even realizing it, you just shot down your own argument.
> 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.
Exactly. Your boss want's what HE (and likely HIS boss) wants, NOT what YOU
want.
> 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.
Hopefully he fired your ass right on outta there. I would have.
> 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.
You should quit if they ever ask you to make a purple, spinny-thing.
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