When people ask me, "What is the toughest part of being a consultant?"
The answer is always,"Getting the Client to tell you the truth."

If we didn't have to drag information out of people, our jobs would be easier. I have learned, if someone is unwilling to put all the cards on the table upfront, they are not worth working for.

What I love is needing to do a reformat and:

1. Company critical software is/are:
a. Pirated
b. from a company that went out of
business a long time ago and there
are no upgrades or patches.
c. lost and no-one knows where the disks are, or we have the disks, but don't know where the install key is.

(How bout this one:"A guy that worked here for a while brought this in and we have been using it for years now.)

d. (like you saw) from a company they are paying $500. per month to use a program written in 1992. And the sales guy has to install it.

Jeez.

DE