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Just weird sacking

Posted by: Samiuela LV Taufa on May 12, 2006 10:59:24 PM

Spent most of the morning talking with a techo on a job they wanted done at their office. The office essentially wants to spend ZERO dollar on the project and wants him to shop around for the cheapest price around.

Fortunately, these guys have a development license (and as far as we understand they get some tax breaks on importing capital goods.) We suggested to him to go back to his boss, here's a list of specifications of the equipment they need and when they get it in they can just contact us or we start negotiating on labour/consulting.

Two hours later he's walking out of his job with the proverbial pink slip. Apparently while he was with us the boss had drafted his bye-bye papers. He gets back into the office, spends a couple of minutes with the boss explaining our findings and recommendations and then the boss thanks him and gives him his bye-bye papers.

Wow!!! Just serious twilight-zone stuff.

The place plans to spend on at least 10 new workstations, 3 servers plus a lot of network connectivity. But apparently they can't afford a full-time IT guy/gal to take care of the place.

Wow!! Just serious twilight-zone stuff.

Here in the Kingdom of Tonga.

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