I think if one's ISP gets a substantiated-by-traffic complaint about hacker-style attacks on a legitimate business, one would be in serious trouble. It's probably not the first concern, but it would be seriously hard to rectify while my account was frozen.
Oh. If I'm doing independent contracting, I want my own contracts. The ones that say I am providing service consistent with the standards of the industry and unless agreed upon in writing, no warranty work will be provided. I'm not saying that I wouldn't help if it was a 5 minute question answered by email, but they shouldn't expect me to drop everything and come running when a 3-year-old Java program doesn't run anymore now that they have a new computer.
If I were to sign someone else's contract, it wouldn't have those provisions.
Thanks for saying you wouldn't touch this job either. You're getting it summarized by me and I have a definite bias, but there were ALL sorts of red flags in the email.
The final response I received says, "Obviously you don't want any sort of job." I'm not sure why people think my passing on a shitty-sounding job means I wouldn't want to work at all, ever. But I certainly didn't take kindly to the implied threat that followed.
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I'd been anxious about the doctor appointment because I knew I hadn't lost any weight. I'd been exercising 4-6 hours per week, in addition to having generically increased my activity level since January. But I'd been eating more (of healthier things, but still, more. I usually picked up a fourth meal which was a plain greens salad.) But doctors tend to only react to things they can measure. So weight, blood pressure, heart rate.
I didn't get nagged or anything, but he did say he had "expected more improvement". I pointed out that he didn't have to rummage for the fat-person blood pressure cuff. He said, "I wouldn't have used that for you. Your arms are fine." I said, "You've used that for me twice this year already." It didn't register because he already had the things in his ears which is the doctors' equivalent of singing, "Lalalalalalalala I can't hear you!"
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Date: 2010-07-23 10:59 pm (UTC)Oh. If I'm doing independent contracting, I want my own contracts. The ones that say I am providing service consistent with the standards of the industry and unless agreed upon in writing, no warranty work will be provided. I'm not saying that I wouldn't help if it was a 5 minute question answered by email, but they shouldn't expect me to drop everything and come running when a 3-year-old Java program doesn't run anymore now that they have a new computer.
If I were to sign someone else's contract, it wouldn't have those provisions.
Thanks for saying you wouldn't touch this job either. You're getting it summarized by me and I have a definite bias, but there were ALL sorts of red flags in the email.
The final response I received says, "Obviously you don't want any sort of job." I'm not sure why people think my passing on a shitty-sounding job means I wouldn't want to work at all, ever. But I certainly didn't take kindly to the implied threat that followed.
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I'd been anxious about the doctor appointment because I knew I hadn't lost any weight. I'd been exercising 4-6 hours per week, in addition to having generically increased my activity level since January. But I'd been eating more (of healthier things, but still, more. I usually picked up a fourth meal which was a plain greens salad.) But doctors tend to only react to things they can measure. So weight, blood pressure, heart rate.
I didn't get nagged or anything, but he did say he had "expected more improvement". I pointed out that he didn't have to rummage for the fat-person blood pressure cuff. He said, "I wouldn't have used that for you. Your arms are fine." I said, "You've used that for me twice this year already." It didn't register because he already had the things in his ears which is the doctors' equivalent of singing, "Lalalalalalalala I can't hear you!"