Yup, I've also seen this happen pretty often. The problem with working as a consultant is that it's difficult (or it's assumed you shouldn't) be in contact with

Yup, I've also seen this happen pretty often. The problem with working as a consultant is that it's difficult (or it's assumed you shouldn't) be in contact with various 'decision makers' of the client. You can of course suggest to the client many times that something is broken, but it rarely gets fixed. Instead the fix is to create various workarounds time after time. It's very irritating to see so much money lost.