October 2021 75k Spam Thread?

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[txjennah PE]

Yeah, the writing part isn't bad...it's the multiple cost estimates per proposal, the massive internal bureaucracy with getting a proposal approved at my company, and arguing with clients over extra hours that kills my soul.

 

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I hear ya there. I'm in a full A/E firm and most of the projects I go after are large multi-discipline. I routinely have to haggle over cost estimates with the leads and the higher ups who in turn will trump my number and cut it even more. Then when we get the project at the discounted rate, it gets tossed in my lap with a grin and a "well you're the PM, so make those costs work". Managing productivity is like herding cats.

 

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[txjennah PE]

I hear ya there. I'm in a full A/E firm and most of the projects I go after are large multi-discipline. I routinely have to haggle over cost estimates with the leads and the higher ups who in turn will trump my number and cut it even more. Then when we get the project at the discounted rate, it gets tossed in my lap with a grin and a "well you're the PM, so make those costs work". Managing productivity is like herding cats.

Ugh, yesssss to all of this. And arguing with higher ups who have no understanding of the work that is actually involved. I've had to argue for my field team to have more hours with people who probably have never done field work/groundwater sampling and have no idea that this isn't *fast* work. Like, sure, we can all pretend that we can get this done in X amount of hours, but it's not going to happen.

 

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Look I'll spam to 2,000 today but only if we have lots of help from other spammers

 

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