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Business and Society 9th Edition by Archie Carroll,Ann Buchholtz
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1285734293Business and Society 9th Edition by Archie Carroll,Ann Buchholtz
Edition 9ISBN: 978-1285734293 Exercise 1
Engineered Billing
I worked at a private engineering consulting firm that was a one-stop-shop for all engineering disciplines and focused mainly on large corporate or federal projects. Within the engineering community, it was and still is a well-known and respected firm. Upon joining the firm, I was given little instruction regarding how the company was structured and was put to work immediately. My prior position was with a small firm that put a lot of emphasis on producing a quality design and rarely noted the number of hours used for a design. They were only concerned with producing a quality project. My new firm was a stark contrast. I was put in a cubical, given a computer, and I received very little training on how the company operated.
My first weeks of work consisted mostly of me having to figure out how the company structured its files, how to enter billing, and what the company expected in their designs. I had weekly meetings with my boss who went over my time sheets with me and little else. He rarely reviewed my designs, only how many hours I was logging on projects and whether or not they were billable. It seemed that as long as I was making the company money, I was doing a good job. After I spent a month on the job, the lead engineer asked me why I was still billing hours to a project on which I was working. He told me that we had already billed the allotted design hours to this particular project. He then told me that I needed to bill to another project even though I was not working on that project. This came as a shock and I did not really know what to do.
Right or wrong, I stayed late and finished the design on my own time. Luckily, I was offered a job with another firm shortly after this incident, so I was able to remove myself from this situation. I hate to generalize, but to this day, I am more critical of proposals from firms that have a similar structure as this one, which I left years ago.
Did I do the right thing even though I lost money in the process?
I worked at a private engineering consulting firm that was a one-stop-shop for all engineering disciplines and focused mainly on large corporate or federal projects. Within the engineering community, it was and still is a well-known and respected firm. Upon joining the firm, I was given little instruction regarding how the company was structured and was put to work immediately. My prior position was with a small firm that put a lot of emphasis on producing a quality design and rarely noted the number of hours used for a design. They were only concerned with producing a quality project. My new firm was a stark contrast. I was put in a cubical, given a computer, and I received very little training on how the company operated.
My first weeks of work consisted mostly of me having to figure out how the company structured its files, how to enter billing, and what the company expected in their designs. I had weekly meetings with my boss who went over my time sheets with me and little else. He rarely reviewed my designs, only how many hours I was logging on projects and whether or not they were billable. It seemed that as long as I was making the company money, I was doing a good job. After I spent a month on the job, the lead engineer asked me why I was still billing hours to a project on which I was working. He told me that we had already billed the allotted design hours to this particular project. He then told me that I needed to bill to another project even though I was not working on that project. This came as a shock and I did not really know what to do.
Right or wrong, I stayed late and finished the design on my own time. Luckily, I was offered a job with another firm shortly after this incident, so I was able to remove myself from this situation. I hate to generalize, but to this day, I am more critical of proposals from firms that have a similar structure as this one, which I left years ago.
Did I do the right thing even though I lost money in the process?
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