I’m a manager and eating 50% hours most of the time. It sucks that we are responsible for efficiency, but there’s no way we can really do work with the budget provided. In this case, regardless of utilization, bonus is not that great. What are your thoughts on this,

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Can’t eat that much that’s crazy. I’ll sometimes eat a few hours if I was not productive but never that much. It’s not my problem if the partner sold a shitty deal with super low fees but I’ll just be ready to explain what factors contributed to overruns etc.

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Eating your time doesn’t help in the long run. Doesn’t show that there are issues with the existing budget process and the same issues will continue.

I track all my time diligently and code things out of scope frequently, or limitations due to data or inexperienced staff. So I can clearly point back to what’s driving budgeting inefficiencies.

But don’t eat your time.

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Move to A&M

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Are the budgets high or people don’t really eat hours?

I have never and will never eat an hour.

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Why not book your hours and let the partner deal with it, and charge more? Budgets are fictional

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