> I was on the bench 40% of my time at Deloitte. Tried to make use of that time to make useful tools, which just got me into more trouble. Got told "libraries are a waste of time"
Your boss was right. It doesn't make sense to build reusable libraries in a body shop like Deloitte. After all, that would make the next project cheaper, with less billable hours. Not to mention all sorts of crazy trying to work out who owns the IP, what rights does the customer have over your library etc.
They had enough ways to pad a contract that if they really want to lie about billable hours like that, they can just not involve me at all.
IP rights aren't hard. It's just that the contracts move in a linear fashion. If management paid any attention to what was going on underneath them, they'd know not to give the common code away with the contract. But they don't pay attention. They aren't even in the same room for more than 2 days out of a month.
Your boss was right. It doesn't make sense to build reusable libraries in a body shop like Deloitte. After all, that would make the next project cheaper, with less billable hours. Not to mention all sorts of crazy trying to work out who owns the IP, what rights does the customer have over your library etc.