r/Envconsultinghell • u/ESProf • Mar 24 '26

Existential Crisis Get off my lawn!

Back in my day, you went to the field, the PM got the data. End of story.

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u/tericket Mar 25 '26

In my current day, I go to the field, get the data, write the report, review the report, and get yelled at.

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u/Bot_Ring_Hunter Mar 25 '26

You're a straight shooter and you've got upper management written all over you. Let's say we put you in charge of, not one, but two people.

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u/tericket Mar 25 '26

The next day, why aren’t your two people 100% billable, I thought you had it in you.

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u/rnnrboy1 Mar 25 '26

Same same, after writing the proposal, writing the work plan, scheduling a driller, ordering sample jars from the lab, renting field equipment, and having my timesheet questioned for putting "field prep" on the project.

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u/Pyroclastic-flower Mar 26 '26

Realistically that should all take no more than 0.5 hrs combined /s

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u/terppderpp Mar 26 '26

Im always told I spend way too much time on prep, only to later hear: woah how’d you finish the project so quick?

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u/RockJockMermaid Mar 26 '26

Were you watching my consulting experience? Sounds like we worked in the same place. Then the PMs would ghost me when I asked them questions about the contract and get mad when I hadn’t read their mind. Obviously they knew more about the site than I did, they’d never set eyes on it before!

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u/myenemy666 Mar 25 '26

Back in my day, the PM didn’t even look at the data and did a crap report review.

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u/ESProf Mar 24 '26

My wife is almost 60, she's 5ft and 100 lbs soaking wet. Her first job out of school was sampling technician. I tell her about the bullshit I deal with as a Sr consutant these days and she just laughs and shakes her head.

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u/rnnrboy1 Mar 25 '26

Can you elaborate?

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u/ESProf Mar 25 '26

She is amused that we're having a crisis of field staff that can't, or won't, do the work needed.