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They do understand, they just want to not-pay. If construction companies figured out they could outsource labor to countries with far lower currency values and

• ineedasername 5y ago
  They do understand Not in my experience, which may not generalize. Your experience and my experience together won't really give a complete picture. What I experience is this: Even on small projects I've had people say, "okay, can you just add this one thing in the next day or two?" And they don't understand until I walk them through in detail how that one thing is nearly as complex as the initial project, so they have to choose how important it is, and if it's important do they want to wait to release the whole thing or do a release in stages. Of course my experience is not necessarily going to represent the whole. Also when outside consulting groups are involved, I often see predatory behavior: they often agree to do any change asked for and don't bother to explain the costs and time involved until a deadline is missed and the budget is running out. At which point they say "the changes you requested have pushed us over the deadline and the extra time is going to cost $X".