I would mod this up if I had points. This came home to roost with me just this week. I started a contract gig for one of the O&G supermajors whose new contractor policy is BYOD and they use a vmware/mokafive VM to give you access. So here I am, doing the same work their employees are doing with powerful dedicated machines and multiple displays on my laptop running a Win7 VM on top of Win7 (see: splitting resources) because said company is too tight to provide tools to do the job. I guess it's not a problem if it takes me longer to read the fine print or manage issues as I'm on their very generous hourly rate but I'll be damned if I'm gonna drag my dock and 24" displays to the office. Sure, VM makes sense to them from a cost perspective (no capital for workstations) but the cost savings end there. Another clear case where bean counters rule.
I just used my mod points or I'd have modded this one up. Don't forget some companies are laying people off and moving jobs to lower paying areas of the country where they can hire less experienced folks at lower wages. They lay off and then re-hire and claim job creation.
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I would mod this up if I had points. This came home to roost with me just this week. I started a contract gig for one of the O&G supermajors whose new contractor policy is BYOD and they use a vmware/mokafive VM to give you access. So here I am, doing the same work their employees are doing with powerful dedicated machines and multiple displays on my laptop running a Win7 VM on top of Win7 (see: splitting resources) because said company is too tight to provide tools to do the job. I guess it's not a problem if it takes me longer to read the fine print or manage issues as I'm on their very generous hourly rate but I'll be damned if I'm gonna drag my dock and 24" displays to the office. Sure, VM makes sense to them from a cost perspective (no capital for workstations) but the cost savings end there. Another clear case where bean counters rule.
I just used my mod points or I'd have modded this one up. Don't forget some companies are laying people off and moving jobs to lower paying areas of the country where they can hire less experienced folks at lower wages. They lay off and then re-hire and claim job creation.
If I had the points, I'd mod this way up. Classroom training is no substitute for real world experience.