1. Spent first month without a PC to use, and I couldn’t use my own laptop because of their “corporate policy”.
2. To use my own laptop, they would require me to have it “sanitized” by their “security team” and install God only knows what on it. No thanks! My laptop does not leave my posession.
3. Meetings every other day to discuss the same project plan and status update. There was nothing to report because I didn’t have a PC to use, and the client was late in ordering the server hardware to move forward with their systems upgrade project, and didn’t have the electrical or storage facilities to accomodate any of it.
4. Was asked to “document new features” and “pros’ and cons'” of the new version of the product. If they don’t know why the hell they are upgrading and what they gain from doing it (not that they have a choice in the matter because the vendor is dropping support for older version), then why am I doing this job? I’m not a salesman for the product or there to market it. I’m there to install the damned thing.
4. Didn’t even have the proper facilities or resources to setup a staging/lab environment before the system went live.
5. Was hired to “consolidate their email system to a clustered environment and upgrade to latest version”, but ended up supplementing their email administrator instead because the guy was clueless
6. Vendor was involved in the project and basically restated the obvious, offering little to no usefull information about how the client needs to implement the product.
After about 1.5 months, I got out of there because it was a dead end project that was being dragged out with no end in sight.
