I have been implementing SAP for 13 years (look at my nickname) now and the majority of our implementations went live at the right time and within the original budget. Of course occasionally you get a client that hires you and then proceeds to do the complete opposite of everything you tell them to do and eventually it turns into a disaster. That said, it's not unique to SAP, I have seen this problem when I was developing other kinds of software as well.

Yes, it really has taken me this long. I was unlucky in that I started my process back when it was still state driven instead of a federal process and my employer had an office in NY. It took almost five years just to get through the initial Labor Certification process. No, I am not Indian. I'm European.

This is not quite true either. I have been in the Green Card process for almost 11 years now and have been steadily renewing my H1 every time it comes around. This is because they realized (to some extent) that they completely jumped the shark on the immigration process and allow us to keep renewing our H1 visa's while we are still in the Green Card process. For the first 9 years of that process I was stuck with a pig of an employer that made sure he abused me as much as he could because I was unable to switch jobs. So once I hit the Employment Authorization phase I was out of there like a shot.