<font face="Verdana, Arial, Helvetica, Verdana, Geneva, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by ilovetheusers:
You know if you take your pay rate and multiply it by the time it took you to buy and build your cheapometer and spent that time working you might find that you could have bought one and have had a few $ extra and a lot of extra time as well?

I just wanted to point out that being cheap can actually cost you more in time that it is worth. </font>
I apply this rule to all situations in my work. Example: screw around for 5 hours with a crummy component, or replace the component with something decent. Give the customer these two options with the cost for each, and your life becomes much easier. And the customer is informed.

I saw a cool tester that the tech who wired our office had: it had an LCD display and would test the line to see if it was good for 100 megabit network.

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If it ain't broke, and you try to fix it anyway, then it WILL need fixing!

[This message has been edited by MacGyver (edited January 15, 2001).]