Confession: straight up had a project once at Accenture that required only 5 hours of work a week. Lasted around a year.

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What I would do for that project. Spend 30 hours a week on personal development, work out, etc

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My current project is about 50 hours, but I'm a one man team for my workstream and have a private office onsite. Take 2 hour lunches to go to the gym.

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Th client had a ton of money and just wanted to keep Accenture folks around, didn't really have deliverables.

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Same. 2.5 months of literally no work. Client knew about it and wouldn't grant me access to their systems so I could do work. Then another ~7 months of maybe 15-20 hours of work. On site minimum 9 hours per day. Wanted to jump off a building I was so bored.

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I want this life. I can handle boredom!

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Federal?

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Wowwww so y'all billed reg hours? Sounds like the life to have

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On site too?

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Haha onsite 3-4 days a week, would usually be remote another 2 days a week. I wasn't expected the project to be like that but I was told to 'adapt' and not cause a ruckus. Apparently the client didn't like deadlines or being 'stressed out'. Was told to take things slow.

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The good old days

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I have had a few 80/20 type jobs not trying to ruffle feathers becauase client contact was racist, passive aggressive, then the client fussed "I don't think he's doing anything.." so I started hammering them with twice daily reports of the analysis work and investigations I was supporting with corporate security. From a script.

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Our tax dollars at work...

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@D2, yes 😂

Yup regular hours billed. Client would come and tell us not to rush anything. Meetings were regularly cancelled and deliverables pushed out by months at a time. Had a client walk in once and say 'let's just push that out by 2 months cause I'll be on vacation and training'

Had a client like that. Original scope was to do three parallel work streams and get it done in two months. Client insisted we do each work stream sequentially with the same massive team. 6 months of ~2 hours/day of work.

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