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It took me over 12 years to get to 50% and one of my claims is for a broken neck and 4 slipped discs. Gotta love the bureaucracy.
ahb1020306
Did you set the estimate for the budget and time required? Because if yes then you screwed up. Drastically overestimating what is needed so that you look good when it's actually "under" budget is frowned upon.
sadurdaynight
Let me guess... you got the project done on time and under budget, which means upper management couldn't milk it for more money?
hightechpirate
I fully support anyone who can successfully stick it to the man +1
halfwayhere
hell yea. gotta love getting it done with half the cost, 100x the stress, and your boss is like you made me look stupid so fuck you - hope you crush em'
gumshoe99
Unfortunately the reward for quality work is more work in many cases. I’ve learned that successful teams do not get more resources. This is why many all star employees will deliberately tank.
DavidTemper44
That´s why people go above schedule in the project and spend the extra time watching shows or taking online courses
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Subsound
People always go after their most needed talent with harsh criticism before introspection or taking a breath to calm down.
I was part of a group where one of my 4 bosses screamed at me to such a degree everyone around me made bullying complaints (open plan office). I took off right after and they need an entire team to replace me...costing at least 5 times as much and still couldnt do basic functions I did.
MagnumRadhard
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youreathing
I swear to Christ corporate culture is so toxic (source: I'm in it). There is no winning unless you're at the top. Use ALL your benefits.
StopTheWorldIWannaGetOff
It's kinda fucked although from a pure business standpoint I do get why they want accuracy with projects, especially when it comes to time lines and financial shit, basicay because it affects their projections and budgets. Still, proper corporate way to handle this is to query the reason for the difference between estimate and actual, not attack the person. Boss sounds like he's not really batting for you though, which is shitty. They supposed to have your back against upper management.
bindedig
I filed claims in July last year and got a 90% and 70% last week. I know the feeling. Congrats my friend 👍
ChazzK
Good, LORD. Glad things are at least looking up for you in the end!
desertodie
Keep shooting for 100%
bittenicht39
Next time, your budget will be reduced to 799k and you will be ridiculed if you can‘t keep the project within budget. Success like this is never really honored.
eastend666
What a roller coaster. I'm very glad for your eventual outcome.
BloodBlight
Relevant:
Ebo352
My last job, I had clients who heard I was on a PIP, and organized colleagues to write letters to my manager to try and save my job; all the letters were 1 footnote in my last review, with no specifics from them mentioned.
I really dislike corporate politics, absolutely because I am terrible at them
Loctavius
It took me over 20 years to get compensation for Gulf War Syndrome. Gotta love the VA. Sometimes they get it right, and quickly, other times not so much.
SOLARvsFACISM
There are good companies out there, but they are hard to find. I worked with a friend at a terrible company. He's now got his dream job doing the same thing but for a company that actually recognizes his talent and pays him accordingly. Went from $55k to $160k
Cyandvai
I need to go back to the VA and work on my status.
Hotsauceman
@OP can I ask what the project was?
wisher1977
Sure. It’s called EALO. It’s a forward facing camera project that I implemented for the texas department of transportation. Took me 2 years to procure this project, but its function is to provide emergency operations centers for our agency access to a real time view of what our drivers see during an actual emergency. It was considered a huge success during our winter weather event in January as it was the first time that our incident commanders were able to see what our plow trucks could see. /1
netutoring
.....not that any other bureaucracy is 'good', but good grief, can only imagine how much worse Texas is.
wisher1977
I’m very proud of my team for what we were able to accomplish yet our leadership couldn’t help but show their ass. Never even got a “good job” from our director or my boss to either me or my team for their amazing work.
JackieTreehornProductions
Sounds like you’re the one who should be in charge. Good Stewardship of public funds should be celebrated not scolded or criticized. Next time you should draw up an improvement or upgrade package project plan to use the remaining funds to maybe give your bosses a way to claim success and still use the full budget.
Arbitrarynamehere
Government funds are use it or lose it and I'm sure they would have wanted more "administrative overhead" for this project given the funds available.
Thanks for saving the taxpayers some money though!
wisher1977
I’m of the mindset to give the money back instead of blowing it on bullshit. But thank you for the compliment.
ironymus
You did the right thing
looriloo
What a wild ride. Mediocre people get so threatened by actual talent. Best of luck
BananaForScaIe
Talented people do too, everyone has insecurities.
OhIfIMust
anononanonanona
Sorry but, over-budgeting by almost 100% is not the result of high skill.
HandoB4Javert
Mediocrity is a feature, not a bug.
wisher1977
Rocking the boat
whiskeywonka
Might not be the talent but that they made it harder to over bill and just basically scam the people who hired them for the project. And yes people are threatened by actual talent.
anononanonanona
This is some insane thinking from someone who has no idea how business works. You don't need something to appear to actually cost a lot of money to charge a lot of money, you can just charge whatever you want. Having accurate projections is critical to running a business, however, and a 100% miss is enormous especially at this scale. If OP's not just making shit up, whoever did the projections is very bad at their job.
FlatPlutoSociety
Well, getting a project budgeted for way more than it will actually cost can cause budget issues with other projects around the company, so this isn't necessarily an unreasonable thing for upper management to be concerned about. But at the absolute worst, this is a "let's work together so you can get a better handle on project budgeting for the future" problem, not a "make your life hell so that you need time away from work" problem.
textilelover
OP seemed to suggest that the budget overrun was not as much as feared it would be. Likely as it was a super rush job. a 1.6m project in 6 weeks is crazy.
textilelover
And now that I re-read it, I think they came in at just over half the projected cost. They spent 878K instead of 1.6m. So their dept didnt spend all their money so they won't get it next time is likely the upsetting factor.
whiskeywonka
Yea that is the other side of the coin i described. Running projects out of time/budget just to keep getting more for the next year is over billing, imo.