RE: Work remote

["Allen, Mark" <ALLENMA1@xxxxxxxxxx>]

I have used "remote" consultants before and am using one now (probably not a
fair comparison since its my wife) but it has always been someone I have
worked personally with before "on-site".  



Mark Allen
MIS Manager
Mattel-Murray
allenma1@mattel.com
502 767 1377

> -----Original Message-----
> From: HankHeath@aol.com [SMTP:HankHeath@aol.com]
> Sent: Monday, November 16, 1998 9:40 PM
> To:   MIDRANGE-L@midrange.com
> Subject:      Re: Work remote
> 
> I've been wondering for some time if there is an opportunity for a
> clearing-
> house for such work.It just seems to me that a good remote coder could be
> the
> Michael Jordan of the AS/400 consulting world. Hell, he or she might even
> need
> an agent once the word got out.
> 
> Hank
> 
> In a message dated 11/16/98 3:01:08 AM Eastern Standard Time,
> DAsmussen@aol.com writes:
> 
> << What sort of "control issues" were you dealing with?  Sounds more like
> the
> "we
>  don't know how to control" issue that comes up with most companies that
>  disregard this easy way to attract talent.  If the latter is true, I'd
> suggest
>  defining the "issues" and offering means by which they could be overcome.
>  I've been working out of town every-other-week for the past two years (at
> an
>  unfortunate 9,600 Baud via IPCS) with great success.  Over the past six
>  months, I've done "moonlighting" work at 56K over a RAS line at another
>  client.  You are correct in that Management flexibility is the big issue.
> If
>  "I'm agin' it" is the big problem, you have no recourse.  If "I don't
> know
> how
>  to measure it" is the big problem, present parameters and reporting
> criteria
>  with which the customer should be comfortable.  Trust is the biggest
> issue,
>  and I spent a year on site before achieving my every-other-week
> arrangement.
>  Trust should be an acheivable goal inside that time-frame, and without a
>  threat to quit as the basis for it... >>
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