jerkface comments on Nuclear Reno Job at Darlington Didn’t Include All the Work: Ontario government claims it was on time and under budget

[–] jerkface@lemmy.ca -1 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

The scope of work failing to cover the necessary work discovered by billions of dollars is still pretty fucking serious no matter how you do the accounting. If Lecce and Ford had come out and said, "Folks, we did our best, but this project is gonna cost another 3 billion beyond estimates," it would have been a lot more honest than saying it was 150 million under-budget. The scope of work isn't important, the actual results and actual requirements are.

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[–] masterspace@lemmy.ca 1 point 6 months ago*

The scope of work failing to cover the necessary work discovered by billions of dollars is still pretty fucking serious no matter how you do the accounting.

No, it's not.

If I pay you to redo my floors, and while you're doing it you discover that a pipe beneath them is leaking and needs to be fixed, that's not an accounting issue, that's not a problem with the contract to redo the floors, that's just an unexpected issue that was only discovered when you did the previous work.

That happens literally all the time across all types of projects.

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