Exactly this. I was at a "company retreat" back when I was in IT consulting. It was mostly the top salespeople for that year so I, being on the delivery side o

Exactly this. I was at a "company retreat" back when I was in IT consulting. It was mostly the top salespeople for that year so I, being on the delivery side of things, found myself in a strange world. After some drinking one of the salespeople started talking about a project that went 2 months past the deadline. I asked "...and they just paid for that extra time?" Everyone got all awkward as I realized that not only did they pay for that, they would continue to pay us to go over deadline. I was the naive one. It's just one of those topics you don't talk about.