Outsource Part Deux

O-kay.

Our Ukraine team just straight up didn't show up the entire week. What the fuck is that? I spoke to another who had to deal with an outsourcing team and their team was so incompetent that they reduced their portion from working on coding between the application-to-database to creating stored procedures.

Yeah, I understand that their time is cheap. But ours isn't. If they produce bad code, they don't respond, there's communication barriers, and they stop me from doing my work. The price frankly isn't worth it. Then again I'm not a manager who can look at raw numbers.

I'm honestly waiting until my boss is telling me to take this project all the way to the end. I swear just me one of the two of their salaries and I'll complete this project all the way until the end. I'll write manuals, I'll write comments, I'll do progress reports or whatever. It may seem like what I can do is seperate but I have no idea what the other person is doing. At a whim he can take away all my unit testing. He can force me to rewrite half my code. We have no source control yet. My manager suspects that asking them to send code that is able to be checked-in is what caused this hiatus. They said they were near done. I told my boss that unless they were sending me tarballs that were a few weeks back then I have no idea how they plan to achieve such a feat.