I along with tens of other consultants were flown from around the US to the bay area and back once a week and put up in a hotel and given a rental car - to work

I along with tens of other consultants were flown from around the US to the bay area and back once a week and put up in a hotel and given a rental car - to work on a project for 3 months. It turns out, the project was canceled before my first day, the leadership just didn't tell anyone because they feared backlash from users that were promised the new features. The project itself was a mess. There were GUID-named Visual Studio solutions for every combination of values of three variables; hundreds of solutions that grew every month. The output of these projects was a spreadsheet that was then manually compared to the previous months' output. This was all lead and managed by one of the top consulting firms in the US.