Well, I was (past tense) going to start vacation tomorrow, but my work has presented some obstacles to that..I am project manager on a pretty big project, moving an industrial plant from a location as old as i am to a new concrete tilt up down the street. I started this project when they had already installed almost all the equipment at the old plant because the new site had not been located yet, then they had other issues and finally we now have a lease, after 14 months of fooling around. Now we have to prepare the new building to be used, since it basically is a big shell, so we will be meeting with the general contractor and property management in the afternoon, you guessed it, on what was my first day of vacation. When these situations arise, why is it they always want to meet say, 3:30 to 5??? Whats wrong with 9:30 AM???
OK, so i got that going on, and then there is negotiations for a new piece of equipment because when they started they didn't realize that at peak production there is a piece of equipment that if it fails, stops production-Hello, anyone listening? Project manager here, you need redundancy in your systems! So now they understand that and need me to be the wet blanket on the sales pitch, which I seem to be good at, especially when they said on the phone the new machine is $850,000 without the software or maintenance. Are you kidding me? If anything, lets talk $475,000 like the last 3 we got, and include software and upgrades, patch management, and a year of maintenance, with a prorate on the maintenance according to our existing maintenance contract I negotiated today..
I know this seems weird, but to me this is no more complicated that haggling over the price of anything...kind of reminds me of buying a car, with someone else's money, and if they don't like it, you're in BIG trouble...
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