I get that directors need to make utilization targets too, but it's really shitty to bill hours against a project where you have expended literally zero time or effort in the last quarter.

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Effect: tacit requests to ghost hours hitting downstream resources.

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And no, it isn't hidden overhead tasks. The other director handles all of that. It's SME hours where their expertise has neither been requested nor received.

Had a principal do this for basically a whole year. 2 weeks, each project. Including travel to a client site to take the client team out to dinner, blowing the travel and labor budgets (small contract). "Oh and by the way, you should also include all these things that I told them you would do"

All the way up- sincerely labor costs

You might not know if expertise was requested and provided, also, maybe he's recouping hours from pursuit as agreed with leadership. Bottom line, you dont know so dont judge.

Don't judge thy gross margins either 📉

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