> Why does this step always come last?

Sometimes comes first but the outcome is the same regardless.

I was once brought in to sit on early discussions with a consulting group. I pointed out very real problems with their ideas about how to solve our problem. That was on the morning of day 1. I was explicitly uninvited before day 2 for "not being a team player."

3 years later we were in court suing this consulting group for millions.

> I bet you as Hertz had some competent technical folks who could have vetted them

They very likely did (and negatively), but no excecutive ever wants to hear that, so they just barrel ahead anyway. Because what do those lowly peons know, right?

Then there’s always the risk that the internal Hertz guys are just terrible and just trying to keep the contractors out to make sure they aren’t exposed.

From the executive side it’s hard too.

> They very likely did (and negatively), but no excecutive ever wants to hear that, so they just barrel ahead anyway. Because what do those lowly peons know, right?

I was fired from a project because I told an executive the wrong thing about how shitty a product was that I was trying to save after a contractor fucked it up, thus revealing the ruse of my boss.

> Then there’s always the risk that the internal Hertz guys are just terrible and just trying to keep the contractors out to make sure they aren’t exposed.

This was why I was hired there in the first place, so basically I was hired as the fall guy and then my boss executed on that plan.

> From the executive side it’s hard too.

I'm sure it was stressful, lucky for my boss he was able to successfully pass the buck and still works there to this day. I've also heard from customers of my current company that the company that "recylced" me is not doing well in my former bosses department, so perhaps he will not survive forever?

Either way: fuck useless execs.

If it doesn't come last, you don't hear about it because it doesn't make the news