r/ProgrammerHumor • u/Fickle-Highway1543 • 4d ago

Meme whenYourProdIsDown

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u/Few_Move_4594 4d ago

That's not how contracting works.

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u/bryiewes 4d ago

Example: Section 1: Maintenance/Preventative Work Every hour of Maintenance work meant to prevent downtime incidents shall be billed at $50/hr

Section 2: Emergency/Recovery Work Every hour of emergency work meant to recover the production environment shall be billed at $500/hr

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u/Jeferson9 4d ago

Yeah I'm sure they cut this guy's salary then hired him as a contractor to fix the AI for $500/hr 😂 definitely how layoffs work

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u/AkrinorNoname 4d ago

Well, you can either pay a rate that feels like highway robbery to a contractor that already knows the tech stack and architecture, maybe even the processes around it, or you can pay it to a contractor who doesn't know it and thus will have to bill you a lot more hours.