Originally Posted by oldfixguy

Civil Infrastructure Project Management - other people work their asses off and I get paid to pass that little fact on. I have on occasion been known to do things like ask others to research how someone else did similar things (thus teaching me how to do it) and with unquestionable authority label it "historical research findings", show people drawings made by someone who actually knows what they are doing accompanied by contrived, industry buzz words to throw off any attempt to embarrass me by asking a real question or God forbid say the word "detail" (this is why meeting rooms are so full. The people talking know nothing. Those sitting quietly give real answers on the rare occasions that is business appropriate), pass off months of other peoples research and findings along with arbitrary inflation as "my" preliminary (great word preliminary - it the business equivalent of "pulled out of my butt") budget estimate, convince all sorts of people that I'm a better caretaker of sometimes enormous sums of their money than they are, ask dozens of people when they would like to begin doing something for a change (this requires one to promise the chance they will be paid money should they decide to actually work) and forward those vague and barely committal ideas as a "schedule". There is more. But, usually around that time it's lunch. I think of afternoons as "me" time.