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Why would anyone want to do that? I live here and can barely pluck up enough interest to drive to the nearest town.
Alberto Brandolini: The amount of energy necessary to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than to produce it.
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For its excellent caravanning opportunities?
(My kid just rewatched some Top Gear on Netflix last night.)
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Keith Barrow wrote: the nearest town.
If that's Newcastle, then I am not in the least bit surprised.
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A simple matter of cheese-jealousy I'm sure.
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Well, if the EU doesn't want you guys, you could always become our 52nd state... You'd just have to get in line behind Puerto Rico.
The irony would just be off the charts... 
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How about a swap? You can have Scotland and we get our original colonies back?
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13-for-1? No way... How about you give us Scotland and Wales, and you can have Mississippi and Kansas?
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No, I think you can keep Mississippi and Kansas, they do make up the backbone of the Mercan Psych after all.
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How about you join us, and we sell Mississippi and Kansas to France in exchange for... uh... Hmm... Does France have anything worth trading for?
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How about them promising to not export their cars. That should be worth quite a lot.
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Let's just stick to "SSDD". 
"These people looked deep within my soul and assigned me a number based on the order in which I joined."
- Homer
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The clinic was full of pregnant women with their husbands.
The Maternity Nurse said, "Ladies, remember that exercise is good for you. Walking is especially beneficial. It strengthens the pelvic muscles and will make delivery that much easier. Just pace yourself, make plenty of stops and try to stay on a soft surface like grass or a path."
"Gentlemen, remember -- you're in this together. It wouldn't hurt you to go walking with her. In fact, that shared experience would be good for you both."
The room suddenly became very quiet as the men absorbed this information.
After a few moments a man at the back of the room slowly raised his hand.
"Yes?" said the Maternity Nurse.
"I was just wondering if it would be all right, if she carries a golf bag while we walk?"
Brings a tear to your eye, doesn't it?
This level of sensitivity can't be taught.
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No.Unbillable.Work!
If the customer isn't paying for it, the customer doesn't get it.
Call me crazy, but I bill for every single hour I work...like I am supposed to.
It infuriates me when I get into a project with salaried employees that commit "heroic effort" to making their screw ups not look like screw ups and make my 40-45 hour a week billable commitment look diminished.
I had a guy tell me first thing when we got in that he was working until 2:00 this morning completing something because the customer ballooned our scope but held firm to the original deadline. What does project management tell said customer when he did this? "Ok." The real problem is that giving project management what they want just reinforces to them that it is ok to start death marches; your reward for completing one is that you get to start your next.
I get paid or you do not get work done.
No. Unbillable. Work.
STOP IT!!!!
"I need build Skynet. Plz send code"
modified 11-Sep-14 11:34am.
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Hmm I need to think about that, what's the project number for that?
New version: WinHeist Version 2.1.0 Beta
Have you ever just looked at someone and knew the wheel was turning but the hamster was dead?
Trying to understand the behavior of some people is like trying to smell the color 9.
I'm not crazy, my reality is just different than yours!
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I have to ask, what do you care what the salaried employees do? It's their time not yours.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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Because overworked employees are not productive. Nor happy. No matter how much they fake it. Productive and happy people think better and produce better code.
Jeremy Falcon
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I agree, the OP looks like he's billing for each hour worked, and getting paid for it, unlike the salaried people, they should be griping, not him IMO.
"the debugger doesn't tell me anything because this code compiles just fine" - random QA comment
"Facebook is where you tell lies to your friends. Twitter is where you tell the truth to strangers." - chriselst
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But salaried employees get bonuses, contract ones don't. The perceived effort/input/success of an individual employee can reward with significantly higher bonus than one who does the bare minimum.
Contractors then moan that they don't get a bonus, well of course not, you are paid for what you do - your terms! 
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I'm not dissing the salary concept, I'm simply stating that anyone that's overworked cannot be happy. Money is not worth trading your entire life for.
Jeremy Falcon
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In my 30+ years of professional experience, there has been an inverse correlation between the number of overtime hours worked and the amount of my bonuses.
In other words, the smarter I worked, the less overtime I worked, and my bonuses were larger.
Software Zen: delete this;
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What's a bonus? - Oh sorry just remembered, I work in the UK...
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Bonuses? You mean the $50 gift card to a restaurant I got after working 12+ hours a day, 7 days a week for 2 months straight? On my subsequent annual review, I was told I was the best developer they had and because of that, I was getting a raise .5% higher than average. I left not long after that.
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