[ale] Awful story...

[Jim Popovitch]

There probably are even more companies involved, but only 2 are
pertainent to the story.   Company A had a contract and subbed it out
to Company B.  Company B was hiring someone to fullfil the contract.
It doesn't matter who the orig contract was with.

-Jim P.

On 2009-11-16, scott <scott at sboss.net> wrote:
> Actually there were three companies.  IBM, Indian-company, and four-
> letter credit card company.
>
> And many companies that hire contractors/subcontractors restrict what
> hardware/software/operatingsystems they can use.
>
> A few years back i went to do a half day job for a contracting company
> for Dell. Now the customer knew I wasn't Dell.  But Dell required me
> to use a Dell laptop and leave my mac at home (well rental car).  Dell
> salesweenie handed me a Dell in the lobby of the customer to use.  I
> went in, used the Dell for the 3-4 hours then handed it back to the
> same person in the same lobby as I was leaving.
>
> Now was I happywith the Dell?  No not really.  It ran windows and IE.
> <shudder>. but it isn't worth the hassle of trying to force firefox
> (or even worse Linux) on companies.
>
> Here is a few words of advice (take them or leave them):
> * when your employer(direct or indirect) gives you tools, use them.
> Including the big evil windows.
> * don't make the salesweenies nor pms upset with you at all.
> Salesweenies are the ones signing the deals ($$$$) and the pms manage
> the people and money allocations.  Make either upset and you are gone.
> * when getting hired/contracted don't use the companies resouces
> including tech support without direct approval of you point-of-contact
> (the pm in the case above).  You could get yourself in big trouble if
> you do.
>
> Just my two cents from being in those shoes before...
>
> Sent from my mobile...
>
> On Nov 16, 2009, at 8:27, Jim Popovitch <jimpop at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Don't take this as a defensive statement for IBM....
>>
>> There are 2 different companies involved, according to the story.  The
>> 3 letter company, and the Indian company.  It was the latter that was
>> doing the hiring, according to what I read.  Now, imagine if big
>> companies, that used contractors, had (got?) to dictate what tools
>> those contractors or sub-partners had to utilize and support.  Now
>> imagine that Microsft is the big company, should they have the right
>> to force all their partners and contractors into using MS Office when
>> OpenOffice would do the job?
>>
>> -Jim P.
>>
>> On 2009-11-16, Jerald Sheets <questy at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> http://linuxlock.blogspot.com/2009/11/linux-contractor-fired-for-using.html
>>>
>>>
>>> Sorry to hear this, but I know it's true from the IBM side.
>>>
>>> You should've seen the blank stares among sales-droids trying to
>>> sell us
>>> hardware when we would demand both fully GUI and fully command-line
>>> manageable gear.  You'd swear you just told them you needed a flux-
>>> capacitor
>>> and an Infinite Improbability drive.
>>>
>>> If these big companies are going to tout their Linux compatibility
>>> and their
>>> Linux friendliness, they need to also make sure to understand that
>>> people
>>> that come a-calling from the Linux world will have a higher
>>> likelihood than
>>> ever before of not having Windows on the desktop.
>>>
>>> --j
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