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

I find this type of sitauation fairly common, though insisting on using
their machine instead of my laptop isn't that common.

Often I will do a consultation, setup remote access, and inform them
that I will be able to more efficiently complete the work from my office
where more tools and resources are available to me so that I can do the
work in less time. This usually rings the savings bells in the
manager(s) so I can get away with it. Sometimes, it just doesn't work,
of course, and I frustratingly get more money for doing a lesser quality
job.

On Wed, 10 Aug 2005, 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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