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My key project at work is an enormous waste of time and money. Likely fucked.
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:19 PM Author: Red motley pit Late this afternoon I learned that the project I've been working on for nearly two years has been trying to solve a problem that has already been mostly solved by a different team. Due to bureaucratic bloat, organizational dysfunction, inexperienced leadership, siloed projects, etc., we didn't know of this until today. Our client, who has wasted millions on this duplication of effort, was on the call where we learned this. Unsurprisingly, the client asked to meet immediately after we all learned this, and on that call we were desperately grasping at straws to "repurpose" our otherwise pointless waste of money.
While the blame here really does fall on the client, that doesn't matter. What matters is that my job situation is now fucked unless the client falls for the sunk cost fallacy and/or their senior leadership remains clueless. Fuck. |
Date: March 26th, 2026 6:25 PM Author: Iridescent lay I had a multibillion dollar deal crater on the eve of close and now I’m not allowed to send any new legal work to outside counsel without Office of the CEO approval and by any I mean literally any. They are micromanaging every $500 increment. I got yelled at by my $6 million a year GC for sending 3 hours of work to CMS. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771773) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:34 PM Author: Red motley pit At least you're still employed. It seems like I'm on the verge of unemployment and need to start a mad scramble to find something new. We're supposed to go in front of senior leadership in a few weeks to give a presentation on what we've done so far. I can't see that going well. Unless they really are fucking clueless, someone in that meeting will realize we've spent almost two years reinventing the wheel.
I feel deeply ashamed even though I'm not to blame at all here. It really is organizational dysfunction that led to this going unnoticed. I just did what I was asked to do without the client telling me someone else had already done it. |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: Iridescent lay My days at this place are numbered too but I have $600k of time vested RSUs so I will survive. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771855) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:35 PM Author: onyx nubile theater police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771819) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:36 PM Author: Poppy Jet-lagged Orchestra Pit Nice (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771822) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:41 PM Author: Bonkers Charcoal National Security Agency Garrison cr its insane when doordash doubles up orders like that for the client (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771849) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:49 PM Author: mint chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771879) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:10 PM Author: erotic office (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771945) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 6:42 PM Author: Dun boyish marketing idea https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D0bb5yFs058 (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771852) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:01 PM Author: Red motley pit I think I'm mentally shocked or something. This morning things were looking great at work -- a lot getting done, no major obstacles to delivering things on time, lively atmosphere, etc. But it's been an entire waste of time and money from the beginning without any of us knowing until about two hours ago. What we have planned for the next ~6 months is pointless work, entirely without value to the client, a death march that a rational person would just kill right now. I see no viable "repurposing" that can salvage the project.
I'm going to update my resume after I go for a long walk. I'm not sure what to tell my manager. I'm not sure what the client is going to say. Do I just pretend we haven't been duplicating effort for two years? I'm not sure how exactly this is going to end, but nothing looks good. |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:04 PM Author: mint chapel this might be a "bad time" to tell you this, but at no point in your life was any of the work that you did important or meaningful in any way
destroy all computers btw |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:04 PM Author: Bonkers Charcoal National Security Agency Garrison (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771925) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:05 PM Author: onyx nubile theater police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771927) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:06 PM Author: Bonkers Charcoal National Security Agency Garrison cr lol u know its some fake kpi nigger bullshit because he had to couch in general terms so much, wtf could this possibly even be (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771931) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:15 PM Author: Red motley pit I'm intentionally using vague terms so I don't out myself. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771956) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:15 PM Author: Bonkers Charcoal National Security Agency Garrison Your job isnt real and doesnt matter in the slightest (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771959) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: onyx nubile theater police squad (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771960) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:22 PM Author: mint chapel (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771973) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:08 PM Author: Poppy Jet-lagged Orchestra Pit Yeah dude has to disentangle being personally disappointed from the reality of the work situation. Shit like this happens all the time, usually to a lessor degree, but everyone involved has an incentive to move on asap. The client here isn't even pissed off, they are just as eager to sweep it under the rug. The reality is most corporate work is totally useless, it's just more obvious here. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771941) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:16 PM Author: Red motley pit I just don't know what to do until I find a new job. Lie? Act stupid? Scramble to salvage the project? I can't tell the truth. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771964) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:18 PM Author: Poppy Jet-lagged Orchestra Pit Obviously youre not in charge so just do what everyone else does (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771966) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:19 PM Author: Dun boyish marketing idea you've been lying to yourself this whole time
how hard could it be to keep that up |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:28 PM Author: mint chapel do whatever is in your own best interest. none of the other people at your "job" matter at all, and you will forget all about them within a couple weeks once you leave
probably what is in your own best interest is lying and playing dumb. but only you know for sure |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 8:01 PM Author: Red motley pit I think I'll have to lie and play dumb, maybe work the "repurposing" angle if pushed. My biggest worry was that the client would get pissed off about this and call us out, but it's their fuck up and not ours, so I don't see that happening. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49772037) |
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Date: March 27th, 2026 3:28 PM Author: Cerebral giraffe It’s for projects like this one that the concept of Adjusted EBITDA was invented. Find out who writes the memos approving reclassing expenses to some vaguely defined restructuring project with a big budget and no monitoring of realized results. It’s what the CFO wants you to do even if maybe he doesn’t want to be in the meeting where it all gets hashed out. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49774114) |
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Date: March 27th, 2026 3:30 PM Author: beta institution (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49774129) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:07 PM Author: Turquoise Gunner Obv blame the other team for duplicating YOUR work. (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771938) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:14 PM Author: Confused big church juggernaut The more the better (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771954) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:12 PM Author: scarlet house french chef Wtf does your project even do? How does this client fuck up and not notice for two years? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771951) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:56 PM Author: Red motley pit (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49772029) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 8:04 PM Author: scarlet house french chef F100? Government? Military? Are you a codecuck? "Product manager"? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49772044) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 7:19 PM Author: Bonkers Charcoal National Security Agency Garrison just jump (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49771968) |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 8:03 PM Author: razzmatazz genital piercing OP spent the past year developing a fleshlight for the Asian market, but this other team realized that they can just drill small holes in an orange and accommidate asian penises.
OK tat sucked. Should click cancel, but I'm now. |
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Date: March 26th, 2026 8:05 PM Author: Fighting up-to-no-good center What industry? Why can't you just pivot to another project within your organization, not necessarily for this client? (http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=5850193&forum_id=2\u0026hid=",#49772048) |