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I work for a school district, I asked my boss publicly how many capital projects our super high paid consultant has delivered on time and on budget? He get really mad. The answer is none.

Maybe it was a shitty question for me to ask out in the open in front of people. Public education uses a ton of high paid consultants to operate several corners from capital projects, to food service, to curriculum, etc. Anyway, I was frustrated because well, several projects have gone $500,000 to $1,000,000 over budget which impacts the rest of our budgeting, and ultimately students and teachers. This consultant probably makes 5-6x what I do and works 1/10th the time. He was upset that I asked and kept asking me what my experience is building a home, a building, renovating buildings, etc. to undercut my question. Thing is, at the end of the day, think he knew that he should have kept this high paid person on a tighter leash with their project management, but just couldn’t admit it to me in front of others. One of those days where…


Maybe it was a shitty question for me to ask out in the open in front of people. Public education uses a ton of high paid consultants to operate several corners from capital projects, to food service, to curriculum, etc. Anyway, I was frustrated because well, several projects have gone $500,000 to $1,000,000 over budget which impacts the rest of our budgeting, and ultimately students and teachers. This consultant probably makes 5-6x what I do and works 1/10th the time. He was upset that I asked and kept asking me what my experience is building a home, a building, renovating buildings, etc. to undercut my question.

Thing is, at the end of the day, think he knew that he should have kept this high paid person on a tighter leash with their project management, but just couldn’t admit it to me in front of others.

One of those days where I ran into a bit of friction with management. Feeling frustrated by the interaction.

Just wanted to vent that’s all.

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