throwawayagency

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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Indeed, the fact that the founder can be so unaware is disturbing in itself and does encourage me at many moments to find another company. I will certainly bring evidence. The type of work not completed can still be audited by the founder.
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Thank you for your questions. All of the over-billing is coming from supposed ongoing work (and of course not a retainer situation). It doesn't happen in any initial phase where it would be difficult to fake something. The agency is sm
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Interesting way of posing the situation to the founder. Thanks for this.
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Thank you for this insight. Bringing up the problem as it relates to business goals is important.
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   This is an important point, thank you. I actually received no followup from the founder. Despite these two senior employees heading the account I was working on, I was actually responsible for much of the work of the client's budget, y
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Thank you for your response. (Though amusingly enough I am satisfying clients enough to bring in over 3x my salary. Makes me wonder if I should just freelance, haha...)
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   I certainly don't think of him as lazy, but I think he's been too busy to realize what is going on, unfortunately. "Unaware" may be a better word, even though he should have been aware to begin with.
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Thank you very much for your response. I appreciate it.
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   by throwawayagency 13y ago

   Thank you for your well wishes. While not incompetent, I do believe he's neglected his responsibility to properly evaluate the performance of his employees more closely.
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    by throwawayagency 13y ago

    Thank you for the questions! These are great. Unfortunately due to the, understandable, character limit of a post I cut out a handful of text which addressed a couple of these. The founder is fortunately technically versed enough that he sh
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    Should I tell the founder his top employees are lazy and liars?

    15 points by throwawayagency 13y ago|31 comments