u/EarPenetrator02

I hate how overly sugary Krispy Kreme is. Also not a huge fan of dunkin

What are the best local donut spots? I’ve been craving Tim Hortons

Just got an email from the gym management. Pretty shocked. Assumed they were doing pretty well financially.

My work is in consulting design and I produce large reports based on data collected and various regulations. The projects are largely solo jobs and broken into data collection, analysis/report writing, and final delivery. My company also sells equipment and software to correct regulatory issues I catch.

Several coworkers went on very large multi-site data collection job and did a pretty bad job. They rushed the work and then never got around to actually executing the analysis due to other commitments. As a result it landed on my plate and I had to piece together a lot of missing information. The customer was already expecting it to be done by the time I got the job assigned to me. It took me months to complete it and it was extremely stressful.

Throughout that process I had to work with one of the guys who did the data collection pretty closely to figure out what was going on. The slow work led to me destroying my profit margins for the year on this one project.

I found a lot of equipment to be upgraded during my analysis and submitted sales leads to fix it.

Now it seems like one coworker expects to be included on the sales lead. I feel guilty because it’s likely going to be several thousands of dollars, and he did help out a lot. But he’s also made this process a living nightmare due to lack of taking pictures on site and losing papers. I also put in a lot of unpaid overtime working through weekends to try and save my performance review and separate bonus at the end of the year.

Typically it’s up to the data collection guys to submit a lead if they find something on site. What I called out in my recommendations and lead were not things you’d see without completing the full computer analysis.

Is it wrong for me to not split it 50/50 even though I did most of the work and put the lead together?

I’ve been getting a lot of messages about data center power systems positions and I’m starting to question how stable they are…

For background I only have about 2 years of experience doing arc flash studies as a U.S. engineer. I go on site visits and make recommendations for NEC compliance outside of basic short circuit and coordination recommendations. Point is I’m one in a million and you could probably outsource my position for 1/5 of my salary.

I’ve gotten a staggering number of messages from recruiters about 2-5 year experience positions doing my current job on data centers. Most are remote and above 100k. I’ve already received a written offer for 96k salary remote (turned it down due to noncompete). The owner of the firm bragged a lot about data center work in particular.

Are you all seeing the same trend? Do you expect these firms to contract and layoff swathes of engineers in the coming years?

This reminds me a lot of the computer science craze years ago