Posted to The Age (7/9/2011) on 7/9/2011 at 11:00 AM
Commenting on "Contractors at state's IT agency bringing home a Premier salary"
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/biz-tech/contractors-at-states-it-agency-bringing-home-a-premier-salary-20110906-1jvx9.html
It is usually about whom you know, not what you know, and also about the best crap one can tell in their CV and at interview that gets the job.
Charging on hourly basis is a joke; if a bug is detected in a system, a contractor can say they have spent 100 hours to fix it but in fact only taken 10 minutes. To be more pedantic, if the software bug was "coded" in the system due to carelessness by a contractor, present or past, who pays for fixing it? Obviously, present contractor can do no wrong, can they? Even Sherlock Holmes can't help in finding the culprit.
By the way, where are these contractors from and where are they graduated? Do they have proper, formal training and qualification? An ox in a Chinese rice field has years of leg-on experience in ploughing land, but an efficient machine can turn the soil in a matter of minutes instead of hours.
Who normal ripped off the organisation? The ones that can play politics in the IT department, who do not necessarily know much about IT, do. Like what Parkinson's Law say, "they have been promoted to their incompetence".
Often Western countries (including Australia) point fingers at the Asian countries about existence of prevalent corruption. It is about time Australia needs a few more "Clean Up Australia" days.
Commenting on "Contractors at state's IT agency bringing home a Premier salary"
http://www.theage.com.au/technology/biz-tech/contractors-at-states-it-agency-bringing-home-a-premier-salary-20110906-1jvx9.html
It is usually about whom you know, not what you know, and also about the best crap one can tell in their CV and at interview that gets the job.
Charging on hourly basis is a joke; if a bug is detected in a system, a contractor can say they have spent 100 hours to fix it but in fact only taken 10 minutes. To be more pedantic, if the software bug was "coded" in the system due to carelessness by a contractor, present or past, who pays for fixing it? Obviously, present contractor can do no wrong, can they? Even Sherlock Holmes can't help in finding the culprit.
By the way, where are these contractors from and where are they graduated? Do they have proper, formal training and qualification? An ox in a Chinese rice field has years of leg-on experience in ploughing land, but an efficient machine can turn the soil in a matter of minutes instead of hours.
Who normal ripped off the organisation? The ones that can play politics in the IT department, who do not necessarily know much about IT, do. Like what Parkinson's Law say, "they have been promoted to their incompetence".
Often Western countries (including Australia) point fingers at the Asian countries about existence of prevalent corruption. It is about time Australia needs a few more "Clean Up Australia" days.