We can all laugh our heads off, but the law of falling rate of return (Marx) and the huge efforts being made (even in the Drupal community via the sanctification of oDesk) to commoditize Drupal consulting work will make us consultants laugh on the other side of our faces.<div>
<br></div><div>Only an international union (which we should have done at the cusp of the curve, not now that it is dropping) can defend our rights as working people.</div><div><br></div><div>Victor Kane</div><div><a href="http://awebfactory.com.ar">http://awebfactory.com.ar</a></div>
<div><br></div><div>"Let's make the capitalist corporations pay for the crisis, not working people"<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 5:35 PM, Riche Zamor Jr <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:rczamor@gmail.com">rczamor@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;"><p>What country is the bid from? It doesn't read as though English is the writer's first language...</p><div>
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<p>On Aug 6, 2010 4:32 PM, "Andrew R. Kelly" <<a href="mailto:arkelly@cognisync.com" target="_blank">arkelly@cognisync.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution">> That HAS to be a typo, nobody's that clueless.<br>
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> <br>> <br>> From: <a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a> [mailto:<a href="mailto:consulting-bounces@drupal.org" target="_blank">consulting-bounces@drupal.org</a>]<br>
> On Behalf Of Jeff Greenberg<br>
> Sent: Friday, August 06, 2010 3:58 PM<br>> To: <a href="mailto:consulting@drupal.org" target="_blank">consulting@drupal.org</a><br>> Subject: [consulting] A chuckle<br>> <br>> <br>> <br>> Received this request for a bid today. Still chuckling.<br>
> <br>> <br>> <br>> You have been invited by the employer to participate in a private auction.<br>> We would like to have an informational portal for all of the roles in our<br>> company. The site will be made with the Drupal CMS and therefore we require<br>
> an EXPERT drupal developer. Please don't bid if youre only building drupal<br>> websites as your hobby. You should be well familiar with content types and<br>> views, users integration in Drupal, advanced search and permission<br>
> functions, multilingual sites (including rtl languages)...We can say that we<br>> are very strict with timelines and very clear with requirements so please<br>> give us the right estimation from the beginning...<br>
> <br>> Max Bid:$300<br>> <br></p>
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