Jasonisms

Well, that was a craptastic day. For those of you who actually read this (I'm looking at you, Mom. Just kidding, my mom doesn't read this) I have spent the past couple of weeks working an IT contract. The contract wasn't anything special, just upgrading a company's IT assets (re: computers) to Windows 7 from WindowsXP. Yes, some companies are apparently still on XP. The idea was simple: I was hired as a 1099 independent contractor by Company B, who has a contract with Company P to work on computers at Company C. My job was to arrive at the various site locations at 8:00am, perform the work as prescribed by the SOW (scope of work, for those of you who don't know what 'SOW' stands for) and then send an update on the progress at the end of each day. My Company B point of contact was Ms. T, her boss, Mrs. J. My Company P point of contact was Mrs. M. My Company C point of contact was the office or general manager on-site. From the first day there were prob...

Well, that's annoying. Last week a friend of mine, who owns his own company, asked me if I could help him out with some work he had too much of at the moment. Since I'm (mostly) unemployed and hurting for money I decided to entertain the idea and we talked about what he needed help with, how much time commitment and compensation. He told me one of his customers is located in downtown Denver, needed servicing 3 days a week, about 2 hours a day, at any time of my choosing. He would pay me the equivalent of $25/hr. Okay, I was in. I only needed to go with him down to the customer, get the lay of the land talk to the client and make my final decision.  We had this conversation on a Tuesday afternoon. He, or his son, were supposed to call me on Wednesday when they were in the area so I could meet them at the customer's location and decide if I wanted to take the contract. Neither of them called. Finally with COB rapidly approaching I called him and reminded him this i...