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I honestly don’t know how some companies get away with their behaviour.

One company provided a quote to a partner organisation amounting to a third of my monthly salary purely for scoping the work required to decommission a couple of websites.

Perhaps those efforts include soliciting legal advice on the fine details of the organisation’s contract with them.

What else could require the equivalent of ten day’s work just to come up with a plan to archive their intellectual property, then delete a cloud container?

The work itself, maybe. But who knows what they will quote for the actual work. I think I can see why this service folded, taken aback by unforseen compute fees not taken into account at launch.

Dare I entertain the other possibility? That my salary is way below market rates? No, no, put that thought out of your mind. Much more preferable to consider these companies cowboys than to ponder that other notion.