Balancing utilization and budget

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It's easy, charge the hours you're assigned on your scheduled and eat the rest!

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Unless your short on hours in which case charge it.

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Get the fuck out Charlie, the firm will never negotiate more. If they do, you'll they cut undercut by a competitor and lose the revenue entirely

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If you only charge your budget you'll probably miss your hours.

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Always, always, always charge the hours you work on client related things. Eating hours to make budget does no good. The budget may not have built-in a scenario that required the hours worked. If you eat those the firm has no way of going to the client to negotiate for more.

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Overcharge the clients you know have more hours budgeted than you will need to finish.

Fk the budget. You need he hours and firms need to be more realistic with clients on how many hours it'll take to complete the project. Don't suffer bc upper management forgot what it feels like to be in your position. Or, when I can, I create the budget and overestimate by 20-30%.

@EY1 I've seen it happen every year.

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After getting kicked out of McK late last year, this gives me schadenfreude 🤣

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My RL didn’t have a formal mid year pre CRT review with me. He just pinged me and said: I’ll represent you. Utilization = 75% and average snapshots. Am I at risk?

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I have been tagged for this project that doesn’t start until June 10th. My utilization is going to drop significantly but at the same time the deployment team cannot present me elsewhere. Ugh!

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I’m quitting my job tomorrow morning. I don’t have a new job lined up. I’m scared, but also excited? I’ve felt under utilized for months, and haven’t had a promotion after two years. I never take risks like this, but life is too short. Is this a bad choice?

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Has anyone gone into YE with lower than the target utilization? I have about 2 months worth of PTO and trainings this year but want to know how a low utilization will affect my YE rating

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This just in: Uncle Ernie telling us how shitty of a year we had and that they're stripping our firm-wide holidays so that we can be utilized more and reach our vision 2020 goals!

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