That sounds like some sort of Buffy-esque euphemism: "Well, that'll lift your cat in the air..."

Ugh. Just had to eat a $40,000 error in a client bid because someone transposed digits. I didn't have the fee buildup so no way I could have caught it.

Ugh, that bites, brenda. I bump into this all to often on my projects. I don't get involved in the pricing but when I put together my cost performance reports I find gaps and mistakes. Never to our benefit.

So much fun calling VIP on his vacation in Mexico to get his okay. But trying to explain and correct the error would be fatal. I do feel really bad for the guy who made the mistake.

Yikes! The down side of contracting, indeed.

Speaking of which, two separate firms are apparently going to bid to provide technical staff for my former employer. So I just sent an email to the second firm going, "Erm, you might want to talk to me..."

Had a nice chat with a friend about what I should do, and he very sensibly pointed out that there's no down side to continuing to pursue the position. Nothing except getting my hopes up to be dashed, but that's par for the course these days.

I am popping in to ask- what is the business or academic way to talk about a 'what went well/what went wrong" meeting. In theatre, we call them post mortems, but this is for a nursing school, so it seems like that would be confusing!

I've always heard it referred to as a post-mortem.

We call them "lessons learned".

When I say post-mortem, they all look at me like I have 4 heads. Or possibly like I am going to make them cut up a dead body!

We call the process a debrief, which often results in lessons learned.