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https://www.wnycstudios.org/podcasts/radiolab/articles/hard-...
Even a simple issue like "which remote control do I use" is a disaster that keeps happening, pointlessly, again and again.
Yesterday we tried to get her iPhone to operate the Spectrum app on the Roku device connected to her Sharp TV - just so she could change channels by number. It can't work.
Can we all just get along?
"You think with a financial statement like this you can have the duck?!"
But my feeling is that in addition to paying the OP to "do a job" the company is also paying him/her (him from now on) to "be on call". Yes, they want X results but they also are paying a salary so that they can tap him whenever they need to. This aspect of the job is referred to when he says there "might be amendments to the spec and corresponding though email".
To some companies (especially those with very little other in-house expertise) having "the computer guy" on call to handle all of that mysterious stuff is worth a great deal of money. The company could consider it their insurance against catastrophe.
Nevertheless I would say the OP should come clean at the next performance review.
http://www.onlineethics.org/CMS/profpractice/exempindex/RB-i...