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Don't get me started on the trend towards spending three times as much for contractors who can work overtime hours and take all the good work away from full-time employees.

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That's the one thing I like about my job is that because there's only 14 people in the department when I say something is a POS, then my boss has to listen. Usually because my colleagues agree, then he can't argue. The job is so specialised that he can't hire new people without spending a fortune in time & money getting them up to speed. Last time it happened we had to let them go after two weeks because the fundamental understanding wasn't there.