Had an interesting verging on frustrating experience with a Dangerous Professional recently: Me: I want to confirm my understanding of an extremely material situation for me. It is: X. DP: Oh no, that’s wrong. In your case, Y, which is much better for you. Me: Oh really? Great.
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*24 hours passes* DP: So about that, yeah... on further consideration, X. Me: What lead to reconsideration? DP: I Googled the rules. Me: I also Googled the rules before our conversation, because we had a meeting scheduled about that issue. DP: But I have now Googled officially.
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Replying to @patio11
Have had the same experience many times w/ *highly-paid* dangerous pros (tax, legal, etc). Frustrating - how would you handle a "why am I paying you/refund me for your billed time" convo?
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Replying to @forgingaheadSG
I broadly have a "I'm paying for a portfolio of outcomes in a similar fashion to how consulting clients paid me for a portfolio of outcomes; the rate is the rate" perspective on that. My exception would be "If you need to fix it due to your error... that's probably on you then."
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Replying to @patio11
This also happened recently, where someone had positioned me for a Y after I suggested that I thought X was the correct positioning. We re-upped the next year, I got a different DRI at the firm, reported "Last year, Y", they said "Wait WTF no", I said "That sounds familiar."
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So new DRI re-papered the previous year's work and sent over the invoice, and I forwarded him the prior year's correspondence where I told previous DRI my understanding of what the correct position was, with query "What do you think appropriate thing to do is?"
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"Ignore my last; we're comping the rework."
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