People who work 50, 60, 70+ hours a week: how do you do that without putting your project over budget? Are your engagements written to have a resource work over 40+hours a week? Are you spending over 10-30 hours a week on added non billable time? What are y’all doing with all of that time?!

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We only bill 45... Nice try Dan

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Dan = Daddy D Consulting CEO

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Correct. Charge 45 or less. Reality

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I’m on 6 engagements.

Haha I worked with a new guy once who actually thought he was supposed to bill his actual / weekend hours and the partners were scratching their heads trying to figure out how we were so over budget for a good bit

Hopefully he got the hint to not make himself available for the weekend.

They are eating hours and working for free rather than putting a foot down and stopping at the cap. Something about the thrill of not having a personal life, lack of sleep, and inability to say no.

Conclusion: consulting is wack but we ain’t going nowhere

Staffed on 2 projects simultaneously because of work from home and charge ~30 hours to each 😂😂😂

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Almost every project in IT is like that 😂

There's been a push recently for managers to scope work out more accurately and to also get clients to agree to hourly time and materials rather than fixed budget fixed fee jobs.

Last two jobs I managed that was the case. The team booked whatever we worked. Our initial plan on the second one was to finish in three weeks, we did three and a half. Billed for everything.

No pushback, billing went fine.

I'm sick of eating hours. And I don't want the team to eat hours either. The only time this year we did was when there was a clear mistake on our final report, and we went into full on fact check mode.

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