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All I can think is that your hourly rate must be pretty high to put up with that. It's good advice for when I might need it, I suppose.

mrweasel 6y ago
Money helps, but you can honestly deal with alot of bullshit when your own employeer has excellent management.
- Xylakant 6y ago
  I found that it’s much easier as a consultant, especially if you have a good boss since you always know that you can be gone tomorrow if things get to bad. And on top, people in the org have no actual way to reprimand you, they need to go via your actual boss.
ntsplnkv2 6y ago
Tons of people put up with the similar on a daily basis. The pay is often really good in consulting gigs. I was a consultant for retail/financial megacorps. 75% of the job is managing blame - covering your ass, finding ways to blame others, referencing the statement of work, etc. PMO is always 5 or 6 members deep because of this - the work of many consultants is to milk money, not solve problems, unfortunately. Obviously there are great consultants out there - but I find for every one good one there are 10 bad.
- mrweasel 6y ago
  The sad part is that many who have to deal with this really do want to help and fix issues, but poor management, be it from the client or your employeer can stand in the way and be really costly. I hate billing customers for stuff they don’t need or aren’t helping them, but if they insist and won’t take free advice I’ll do the work and invoice them.
- to11mtm 6y ago
  In my observations, consultants can be very well (mis)used. Very frequently I've seen the pattern where a consultancy is allowed to go in and do everything at the direction of some project overlord. And, sometimes? That's a -great- thing. Sometimes that means that in fact you are cutting away from all of the existing BS at a company and are allowed to make a real product. Other times, however, it winds up being one of those things where you quickly realize you're going from bad to worse.

mrweasel 6y ago

Money helps, but you can honestly deal with alot of bullshit when your own employeer has excellent management.

Xylakant 6y ago
I found that it’s much easier as a consultant, especially if you have a good boss since you always know that you can be gone tomorrow if things get to bad. And on top, people in the org have no actual way to reprimand you, they need to go via your actual boss.

ntsplnkv2 6y ago

Tons of people put up with the similar on a daily basis. The pay is often really good in consulting gigs. I was a consultant for retail/financial megacorps. 75% of the job is managing blame - covering your ass, finding ways to blame others, referencing the statement of work, etc. PMO is always 5 or 6 members deep because of this - the work of many consultants is to milk money, not solve problems, unfortunately. Obviously there are great consultants out there - but I find for every one good one there are 10 bad.

mrweasel 6y ago
The sad part is that many who have to deal with this really do want to help and fix issues, but poor management, be it from the client or your employeer can stand in the way and be really costly. I hate billing customers for stuff they don’t need or aren’t helping them, but if they insist and won’t take free advice I’ll do the work and invoice them.
to11mtm 6y ago
In my observations, consultants can be very well (mis)used. Very frequently I've seen the pattern where a consultancy is allowed to go in and do everything at the direction of some project overlord. And, sometimes? That's a -great- thing. Sometimes that means that in fact you are cutting away from all of the existing BS at a company and are allowed to make a real product. Other times, however, it winds up being one of those things where you quickly realize you're going from bad to worse.