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Pretty much. Lol. It's unbelievable how many expensive reports we generated that said "fixing X would result in $Y revenue" and the business response would be

Pretty much. Lol. It's unbelievable how many expensive reports we generated that said "fixing X would result in $Y revenue" and the business response would be "well, that would piss off Ryan so we can't do that".

efsavage 4y ago
In Ryan's defense, the firm he hired wrote an even prettier and more expensive report supporting his decision.
- guhidalg 4y ago
  Consultants pay attention: this is how you're perceived.
  - bee_rider 4y ago
    Lucky bastards, I’d love to be perceived as “work product is linearly related to compensation.”
    - red-iron-pine 4y ago
      Aye. Bill more make more. Reminds me of bartending, where if I worked doubles or weekends -- often crazy, long, hard days -- I could walk out with more cash. And not like an abstraction, like literally $100 cash in my wallet, if I sold more expensive drinks or put in more hours. Hard work though, fairly tough maximum caps in terms of pay, and brutal to have to do into retirement -- my knees (or liver) wouldn't last long enough to do it for 30 years.
fragmede 4y ago
Better yet, Jeff's been yelling that we should do X for months and now that we have an expensive report says that we should do X, we're gonna do X. But not at all because Jeff thought it was a good idea. And then wonder why Jeff up and leaves the business.
valdiorn 4y ago
The funny thing is, if someone actually has the guts to tell Ryan "Hey you know that thing you insist we do? It's costing us $Y every year. Do you still want it?". The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that's mad, why didn't you alert me sooner? Stop that at once!".
- dachryn 4y ago
  no the actual issue is that it would mean a demotion for Ryan Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investments to be making. But the only way out is to fire the guy, and that's just one step too far. So the ryan's are untouchable because of politics, they want to keep their scope and budgets. If nobody wants to decrease their budget, no money is saved sadly

efsavage 4y ago

In Ryan's defense, the firm he hired wrote an even prettier and more expensive report supporting his decision.

guhidalg 4y ago
Consultants pay attention: this is how you're perceived.
- bee_rider 4y ago
  Lucky bastards, I’d love to be perceived as “work product is linearly related to compensation.”
  - red-iron-pine 4y ago
    Aye. Bill more make more. Reminds me of bartending, where if I worked doubles or weekends -- often crazy, long, hard days -- I could walk out with more cash. And not like an abstraction, like literally $100 cash in my wallet, if I sold more expensive drinks or put in more hours. Hard work though, fairly tough maximum caps in terms of pay, and brutal to have to do into retirement -- my knees (or liver) wouldn't last long enough to do it for 30 years.

fragmede 4y ago

Better yet, Jeff's been yelling that we should do X for months and now that we have an expensive report says that we should do X, we're gonna do X. But not at all because Jeff thought it was a good idea. And then wonder why Jeff up and leaves the business.

valdiorn 4y ago

The funny thing is, if someone actually has the guts to tell Ryan "Hey you know that thing you insist we do? It's costing us $Y every year. Do you still want it?". The Ryans of the world usually respond with "no that's mad, why didn't you alert me sooner? Stop that at once!".

dachryn 4y ago
no the actual issue is that it would mean a demotion for Ryan Like our tech director spending millions on Microsoft stuff. Anyone sees that it's not really the most sane investments to be making. But the only way out is to fire the guy, and that's just one step too far. So the ryan's are untouchable because of politics, they want to keep their scope and budgets. If nobody wants to decrease their budget, no money is saved sadly