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> who hires some college kids that actually do the job

Sounds about right, except that

> hitman number five was so incensed at how much the value of the contract had fallen, that he told the target to fake his own death

the job was actually not done, but faked.

The last developer from India that my company hired (2009 or so) left us with some sub par script, which had some 500+ lines of code for some data validation that was actually never executed.

We then switched to people from the Eastern Block, and we never looked back.




> the value of the contract had fallen

Why would I, Middleman Hitmeister, tell the marksman I'd hired about taking a cut and passing the job on?

"They hired me for $500K to get this done. I'll pay you $250K to get this done." Now I risk the guy killing me to take the full $500K for the contract.

Amateurs.


*bloc


cheers


We did the same.




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