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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by mixedCase on Friday April 05, 2024 @08:00PM (#39948717)
Damned. I'd be tempted to write down in my resume "Company would've saved N million dollars and 5 years of their time had they listened to me" were it not such a double edged sword.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by jmole on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:28PM (#39949203)
No one gets credit for "I told you so" - look at it this way, you didn't have the skill at the time to make the company listen to you.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by joshuahutt on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:53PM (#39949348)
How could you, in such a case?
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by jmole on Friday April 05, 2024 @09:59PM (#39949376)
I don't know, and maybe there was no solution. Just offering a different perspective.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by joshuahutt on Tuesday April 16, 2024 @10:47PM (#40059907)
Some things seem inevitable. I've really run myself through the wringer trying to figure out "what could I have done to achieve a better outcome for everyone involved."

I guess success and failure are both group efforts.

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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by elwell on Saturday April 06, 2024 @12:48AM (#39950061)
short the stock
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by nilamo on Saturday April 06, 2024 @11:18AM (#39953021)
They ignored the CTO on an issue that was 100% tech based. There was no winning, the board decided to ignore the person they hired to make that sort of decision for them.
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Re:Ask HN: What is the most useless project you have been wo... by nick7376182 on Saturday April 06, 2024 @09:51AM (#39952447)
Better to write "managed critical scoping phase of $xx migration". Not your fault the company priorities later changed and it wasn't completed!
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