Comment by jbob2000
7 years ago
Pfft that's nothing. We just had a contractor charge us $50k to setup a simple HTTP proxy. I looked at the code; it's a .NET starter app with our endpoints in it that route to other endpoints. $50k and it probably took them 2 hours, which was probably mostly just packages downloading.
Indeed, $50k for a few hours of work is a lot better (for the contractor) than the $21k for 280 hours chronicled in the original post.
Hell, considering probably he spent most of his time sitting around, bored out of his mind, and had to commute 50 miles each day, I would have passed on the contract.
Reading stuff like this makes me wonder if I'm not missing out, having a salaried job. :/
did you pay it? that's crazy!
It’s really gross how big companies operate. Our VP was more than happy to pay it! I would even go so far as to say that our entire solution was structured in favour the contractor. A smarter solution didn’t need their proxy at all, but this was the direction we “had” to go with.
He didn't, but I'm sure his non-technical business boss did.
If that was the amount that was in the contract, of course they paid.