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This one hits home and is one of the those that makes my hypertension sky rocket when I think about it.

Was a manager back then on an analytics gig where we spent 1 month asking for data, 3 weeks dealing with bad data back and forth because the data was “sensitive” and we were “vendors”.
2 weeks trying re-explain the purpose of the exercise to stakeholders, despite that 1 month of getting escalated on by random junior stakeholders to procurement that the firm was sniffing for follow-on work.

Finally got clean data after about 3 months, the actual analysis took 8 hours, the slides to tell the “story” took 40 hours (3 MD reviews, 2 client reviews later ) got a slot on a C-Suite QBR, Yes we did get follow-on work 😀.

In hindsight I could’ve done so many things better but it’s one of those gigs that got under my skin and made me hate (yes it’s a strong word) incompetent and needlessly political clients for a while. Took a few months and a different gig to get that negativity out of myself.

Man! Who knew your recycled meme would be so cathartic for me - thanks OP 🙏

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This one is so true!

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