Quote:
Originally Posted by QuadsOverQuads
A customer approaches you as an IT professional:
I always do my best work. It's something my father taught me when I was young. I'm not that old, and I have no idea how old you are, but maybe this is a generational mindset thing.
*shrug*
I don't half-ass things because I'm not getting tipped enough, or because I took the job at a discount.
We both have the option of refusing jobs that we don't feel compensate us correctly for our skills. If someone wants me to do
X and they only want to pay me
.5*X, then, if my pocket book can afford it, I'll simply refuse the job. If I need the money, I'll deliver
X, but at no point will I
ever give less than my best.
If I'm getting paid $180 an hour on contract, or if I'm getting paid $55 an hour on salary,
I produce the same quality of work per hour without. If I accept the offer to work for you for
X hours, you'll get
X hours of my best work, period.
When you took your job, you knew that there'd be ups and downs, and you took the job anyway.
Which brings us back to the question I've been asking you:
Do you advocate reducing the level of your service if you feel your compensation isn't appropriate, or do you advocate always doing your best work?