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It's not all bad.
I talked to my boss's boss, and the new laptop for my team should be arriving next week. Also, he gave me more information on billing.
And he shared an amusing story. He wanted to know what we'd done to A. (one of the project managers), who talked to us yesterday. We had asked him a few questions, and told him we couldn't give him answers until a day or two had passed and we'd gathered all answers and could formulate our schedule.
At the new meeting for his estimate, he upped the hours in his project to something around 3000.
For, admittedly, both systems, not just mine.
That's over a man-year. For what are, essentially, near-baseline products. It's true, there are things we need to do for them, but most of them are not customizations, but baseline changes.
Way, way too many hours. He's lowered his revenue-per-hour drastically by doing that, which will tend to put him last on our list, which is not what he wants. It was rather the wrong move - he had plenty of hours for our stuff, and I've been telling him that. The question is not if we will overbill his project - even before this, it was almost certain we'd underbill it because we simply don't need those hours. The question was when we would manage to work on it!
Geez, A. Get a clue. Please. Here, have two. Have three. (If I throw enough clues at someone, even if he's not taking them, do you think I can bury him too deep to talk or write emails for a little bit?)
And he shared an amusing story. He wanted to know what we'd done to A. (one of the project managers), who talked to us yesterday. We had asked him a few questions, and told him we couldn't give him answers until a day or two had passed and we'd gathered all answers and could formulate our schedule.
At the new meeting for his estimate, he upped the hours in his project to something around 3000.
For, admittedly, both systems, not just mine.
That's over a man-year. For what are, essentially, near-baseline products. It's true, there are things we need to do for them, but most of them are not customizations, but baseline changes.
Way, way too many hours. He's lowered his revenue-per-hour drastically by doing that, which will tend to put him last on our list, which is not what he wants. It was rather the wrong move - he had plenty of hours for our stuff, and I've been telling him that. The question is not if we will overbill his project - even before this, it was almost certain we'd underbill it because we simply don't need those hours. The question was when we would manage to work on it!
Geez, A. Get a clue. Please. Here, have two. Have three. (If I throw enough clues at someone, even if he's not taking them, do you think I can bury him too deep to talk or write emails for a little bit?)
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*sulks* CD did not get here today.
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