Part of “name your price” should include whatever tools - up to and including ownership of processes.
"I even worked on translating Archivista’s interface into Italian, since it wasn’t yet localized, just to make it easier for users."
This story even hints at a common theme that happens even when people aren't trying to destroy data - that some people will tear down whatever they inherit, then blame their predecessors for the problems that result.
I've even created automated invoices for some companies and realized that some data was missing for months. And yet they got paid significant amounts. I realized that the invoices could have been for just about anything and they would have gotten paid ...
My dear husband of 40 years has recently passed away, and while I'm still grieving the loss, his former gay lover has been syphoning money from our company and threatening to expose my husband's bisexuality (NOT socially accepted in Italy) if I expose the theft! I've hired an IT kid to prevent further theft, but it turns out he has some sort of connection to the thief as well! I'm totally at a loss as to what to do.
-Benedetta Bothways
Let me fix this for you… Because always, dishonest people do win.
Good read and it would make a good short film :-)
Dishonest people almost always win.
Not any individual one - a particular dishonest person might only win 20% of the time - but in aggregate - the winner is almost always a dishonest person.
Even when an honest person would win some game, dishonest people are willing to be honest if that's truly what gives them the greatest chance of winning, so they still win.
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