Thank you very much for all the comments, I feel better already,

Cheers, Nico

--- In ib-support@y..., "Tobias Giesen" <tobias_subscriber@t...>
wrote:

> > the consultant was hired in case I
> > drop dead :-), somebody still knows
> > about the project.
>
> Oh well, if it's Delphi and SQL, the code is probably
> easy enough to read. So, in the above-mentioned unlikely
> case, it should be possible to find a software engineer
> able to familiarize her/himself with the project's details
> even without your explanations.
>
> Hmm ... if your knowledge is still valuable, maybe you
> can take advantage of that. I'm surprised that you weren't
> able to participate in choosing your co-worker. I wouldn't
> give away any more information if the whole co-operation
> isn't going on your terms. If you made the system run, you
> are a strong man and not a loser. The consultant has yet to
> prove that he's valuable at all (maybe that's why he's
> making these strange suggestions).
>
> It's probably a difficult situation but I think you have
> the right to feel stronger and in a much better position.
> It's always easy to criticize other people's work in retro-
> spect. There's always room for improvement, but given the
> resources that you had you probably made some very good
> choices.
>
> I think the consultant's words should be evaluated in terms
> of how constructive and productive they really are. I guess
> having a job called consultant one feels the need to give
> advice and find weak points, which may or may not be intended
> to actually weaken your position. But your boss needs to be
> able to realize which propositions are good and which of them
> are useless.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Cheers,
> Tobias