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I was working on a Salesforce implementation project at Deloitte. One of our Salesforce consultants put in his two weeks for another job about 6 weeks prior to go live. Instead of replacing him with a Salesforce resource, the Senior Manager replaced him with an SAP guy in order to protect his utilization. Guy gets on client site and nobody knows what to do with him - requirements are complete, he can't provide any expertise, and the project didn't require any PMO... so he just kinda sat there. Client asks him a couple of days in what he was doing, to which he responded something along the lines of "I have no idea why I'm here". Senior Manager tells him to not show up to the office anymore, but he can keep billing time to the project.
Quite a Deloitteful experience
Chief
Mine was ~1 day. We hired someone as a subcontractor on a project with a niche technical skillset.
The guy who showed up that day looked NOTHING like the guy on the zoom interview.
He didn't even have the same hair color.
It was surreal.
This happens all the time with subs. Especially if you are not screening for it.
We have had people pretend to type during code screenings while a friend coded across the room. We have had lip syncing. We have had intentionally blurry videos to make the audio unclear to force a phone call.
It can be a full time job screening these folks out.
Rising Star
Was this the SM?
3 hours
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Chief
2 weeks. He only made it that far because I stuck up for him (no clue why) despite terrible performance.
I ended up delivering that project solo since the M put in his 2 weeks notice too.
3 days. There was a boutique at my client site that had issues staffing a competent manager for their project and had gone through 2 by that point and client was becoming increasingly frustrated.
They bring this guy on a Monday, 6’3 enthusiastic, good-looking blonde dude who sounded like he knew his shit from our interactions. On Tuesday, it’s clear from our client touchpoint our client was falling in love with him, “In our next meeting with CIO, I’ll need Kevin in the room. Did you work with him when he was at KPMG? Did you know he played safety at [undergrad]?”
Thursday rolls around and I see my client morosely walking out of the conference room and Kevin’s leadership following close behind. Kevin had found time in between schmoozing my client to slap one of his coworkers ass so leadership was informing my client that he won’t be coming back to client site and is no longer with the firm.
For performance. 4 days.
I know people that have (pre COVID) flown to a client on Monday only to find out they are being rolled off for client changing their minds by the time they landed.
Well I don’t blame your client then. I met someone the other day that didn’t know how to add a row on excel so they said they couldn’t complete the assigned task. This person is M level..
A week, they couldn’t do the job despite having a masters in that said field
Better to get rolled off immediately or never?
Chief
Immediately
4 days