Project from Hell

I had the opportunity (misfortune?) to work on the most poorly managed project in all my 12 years of working:

• Project was finalised on Friday and work commenced on the following Monday. I had absolutely no time to do proper research or homework prior to commencement!?! 
• Topic of the project was trade liberalisation. ... Honestly, my company had no business taking on this project as we neither had the skill nor expertise to handle this topic. 
• Scope of the project was unclear. We had no clue what the end-game or the expected deliverables were. Worse, we were under the impression that we had 6 weeks to work it out along the way, but learnt the hard way that the real work happened in the first 2 weeks. 
• Underestimated the scope of the project. We thought it was good money; MYR200k for 2 consultants over 6 weeks. Ended up allocating 2 senior consultants plus 4 consultants/analysts on the back-end to do research. To rub salt into the wound, we later learned that the client had paid other consulting firms close to MYR1m for a similar piece of work last year. Ha.
• Suspect someone (either the salesperson or my boss) had grossly misrepresented my company and made false promises in order to secure the project. The client was under the illusion that we had an extensive database of liberalisation best practices from around the world that they could use as benchmark data. Big fat lie. 
• Client is highly fickle and contradictory. Says one thing one day and the exact opposite the next. When under pressure, we were the scapegoats. Nice. 
• Team member is extremely lazy and annoying.

Interestingly, the one thing that bothered me the most was the last point.

Just glad to be off the project now.