[pjungwir]

> the dev team was the fallback for doing data entry for weeks on end

Wow, what? It sounds like you were doing the right things, but this is hard to comprehend. Wouldn't temps cost $12/hour for this? No wonder they were angry.

[IgorPartola]

That's the route we went eventually, but inputting geographic data directly into MySQL is not something that temps could handle. We needed the time to create the tools to be able to hire temps. In the meantime cash flow depended on the data being there.

[nitrogen]

Sounds like the perfect situation for a small business loan to cover the temps' wages.

[gleenn]

Sounds like it wasn't money, but time they needed. Money can eventually save you time, but not immediately.