What’s the worst/craziest set up you’ve worked from the client site

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A windowless shack made out of decade-old plywood. No running water for days at a time, food that looked like something taco bell would throw out, and occasionally you get shot at with indirect fire. Client:Afghanistan National Security Forces 😁

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Our 8 years ago, my team of 10 and I were provided an entire *building* to work in. While that might have sounded good, it was scheduled for demolition right after our project ended and it had two large fire ant hills in the middle of the large room we were assigned to. We didn’t eat anything at our desks in that building but we did expense some Epinephrine pens. I was shocked we didn’t get expense audited for that.

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Over a decade ago, but a twelve-person team assigned to sit in a windowless room that once held an eight place conference table, replaced by two desks and six chairs. Client response, "well, I expect that at least half of you will be out in meetings or working with my staff at any given time."

Free cookie for anyone who guesses the agency.

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SC1 Donnie's Oval Office conference room?

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D2, your local Marine recruiting center is probably right around the corner. I'm sure they can hook you up with a similar consulting gig 😀

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SC1, USPS???

I mean, you win SC1, you win all the things

A closet at a pharma company. They ran out of space during an FDA compliance exercise. I kept saying I didn’t think it was compliant to put us in a closet, but they wouldn’t listen...

PWC 1 tell me how you got on that PLEASE.

Seriously dog drop a burner email or something I gotta know how you got that gig

I know these projects exist they are exclusively word of mouth. At this point Ill take any lead I can find. Been trying to crack into the space since I started last year

What A1 said. No joke

I came to D with TS hoping to do Intel work abroad and haven't been able to crack that nut. Looking for any advice honestly. Shoot your shot

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