Re: tap tap...this list still live?

It's not uncommon for customers to want you to work on site. I always 
use my own laptop, but I've been places that don't want that. (Worried 
I'm going to "steal" files) If the workstation they provide is 
sub-standard, tell them what you need, and why (why being expressed in $$$)

I too normally do copy/paste, etc, but in a case like this, I'll 
contentedly bill the customer for my doing the config the hard way.

Bob

Jon Lewis wrote:

> I'm doing a consulting job on behalf of my employer and am wondering if 
> the following is unusual/standard.
> 
> Nearly all the consulting work I've done, either on my own or for work, 
> has been for businesses hundreds or thousands of miles away, so working 
> remotely was a given.
> 
> This current client is local and insists that I come to their location 
> and use a desktop PC (running windows...ick) that they've designated for 
> my use.  They (several of them) also like to hang over my shoulder and 
> watch everything I do.  This is slightly annoying, but also somewhat 
> helpful in that when I have questions ("Why the hell is this like 
> this?") I can just turn my head and ask one of them.  Unfortunately, the 
> most frequent answer is "I don't know.  Should it be done differently?".
> 
> Being used to working in X, with a large virtual desktop capable of 
> displaying a few terms and a browser simultaneously, I find a small 
> desktop on windows pretty constraining and inefficient.
> 
> The onsite part is also annoying/limiting in that I'm out of the office 
> (cut off from email, the phone, and generally unavailable if anything 
> but a major disaster comes up), and unable/(really just unwilling) to 
> ssh out to other systems in order to rely on work done elsewhere to see 
> how things might be done.  i.e. they're a good candidate for some 3rd 
> party software I've installed for other customers on systems we (work) 
> manage for those customers.  Normally, from my desk, I might log into 
> one of those systems and simply copy&paste sections of config rather 
> than write a new one from scratch.  Maybe that's being lazy...but to me 
> it just seems more efficient.
> 
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