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by TheJoeMan 806 days ago
From someone who's seen the other side... every time the engineer has to quabble over email with the permitting departments over matters such as "you sent it to the wrong bureaucrat so I'm ignoring instead of forwarding it" or "the permit admin wrote the wrong 1 of 50 Comcast subsidiaries on the paperwork so now I have to get a skip-manager's signoff" it's billed at $400/hr.