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From: rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc,comp.os.linux.advocacy
Subject: Re: Business cultures
Date: 11 Feb 2025 22:15:08 GMT
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On Tue, 11 Feb 2025 22:11:07 +0100, D wrote:

> Trust is important. One of my new freelancers wasted 2 hours of my time
> today bitching over his contract. The contract was 1.5 pages long.
> 
> A week before, my customer told me they thought he was unstructured,
> grumpy and slow to respond. I thought they were just negotiating
> (contract negotiating season coming up).
> 
> After todays call with him, I won't be renewing his contract with me.
> 
> Sometimes I do not understand people.

It is a puzzle. We had a support person I didn't think was particularly 
competent but the clients loved him. I'm not one to argue with success.