Thread: For The Win (ftw)

I'll try to think up a story but way to go Don Draper!

If an Ad Man doesn't gloat, someone has got his goat. You might as well go down with the boat if you didn't make the pitch float.

Are you gonna say something smug to your boss like "I guess they just enjoyed a more academic approach" when they get back?

Originally Posted by aa1192

Are you gonna say something smug to your boss like "I guess they just enjoyed a more academic approach" when they get back?

I was thinking about it . Going to wait as I have one more gem to see come to fruition first! Pretty sure I'll sell it though.

Job well done, it's great when it all come together.
My best "gloat" for the win would be as follow:
Many moons ago about mid 2004 in my second year working in my current job as a Mechanical Estimator, I received a tender for a major expansion of a chemical plant in town.
After a month odd of 14+ hours days of reviewing and pricing over 2500 drawings and the umpteen specifications and procedures etc.
Waking up in the middle of the night dreaming about the tender, thinking I need to remember to allow for this or that when I get to work in the morning.

I bagged my first major tender for the value of just under $22.4 million dollars.
Close to 80 people employed for about a year and a half.

Then a starting stressing out thinking "what did I miss or forget" lol

This also confirmed this saying for me:
"STRESS, is when you wake up screaming and realise you haven't been to sleep yet"

But all good in the end the job went to nearly $25 million after variations and changes and we made a hearty profit for the branch of close to 20%

Now in 12 years this has only been rivalled in stress and sence of achievement by a $32 million win of another workshop based project a few years ago,

Oh yeh and a $70 million budget that was a paid consultancy so no risk but lots of headaches for me for a new coal handling prep plant