Conversation with a Consultant

Conversation with a Consultant(bjaress.blogspot.com)

10 points by bjaress 14 years ago | 7 comments

awakeasleep 14 years ago |

This is funny until you work with this guy, he's completely incompetent, but he does everything with the attitude of detached superiority, and your management is ready to hear him tell them how to raise their kids (if he charges this much he must be INCREDIBLE).

Not an easy way to deal with this stuff.

ricardobeat 14 years ago |

God, I cringed through the whole thing. He went instantly into defensive+verbose mode.

Did the guy end up doing any real work?

bjaress 14 years ago | |

He set up separate hosting for some static splash pages and got some information for us from vendors.

I never did get a clear explanation of his role, and he stayed at another site with the project manager, so I really don't know how much work he did, only that I didn't see him do very much.

fondue 14 years ago |

Wow, that reads like a conversation with Eliza.

dantiberian 14 years ago | |

Halfway through the post I was expecting it to turn out to be a chatbot, not a real person.

ineedtosleep 14 years ago |

My God. If I ever heard the bit from "Well, if you worked for me directly [...]" I would've just stopped him in his tracks and said enough. Even though it's text, any interpretation of that utterance and the ones afterward are completely degrading to the listener.

elgenie 14 years ago |

That was painful to read. I almost expected "What would you say you'd do here?" to show up in the conversation.