I relate to a lot of the absolute painful things this person went through. I did some time at a Big4 consultancy and you'd see the alcoholism, cultish attitudes every single day (had one director...
I relate to a lot of the absolute painful things this person went through. I did some time at a Big4 consultancy and you'd see the alcoholism, cultish attitudes every single day (had one director who could not sell to clients with two beers in his system...)
That's not to mention the questionable ethics of charging hundreds of thousands of pounds in cold, hard cash for things that weren't even remotely that valuable. Government institutions would be spending £250k+ for what amounts to non-repeatable PowerBI dashboards. Or they'd assign anyone with a whiff of military experience to MOD and Police contracts, no matter how much you protester.
The hours you got subjected to were ridiculous, with a senior partner calling me on a Saturday morning to talk shop, whilst I was overseas on a well deserved holiday. If you didn't take the call? You could guarantee your P45 was waiting Monday.
Consulting firms are riddled with egotistical, ethical and moral sellouts (as intimated when this dude met old colleagues who did just thar), destined to achieve very little in life beyond stuffing their own and partners bank accounts with the public (and private sectors) money... In exchange for a logo in a report that tells you how good something is.
I kicked off a small consulting firm with some friends after I left the Big4 and retain a directorship in it to this day. We take 30% of revenue and give it to charitable causes before we see a penny and we were derided as a consulting conference for doing so. We spend time working with clients to actually build transformation that looks at people, process and technology for everyone involved and we are very human. We've done
Consulting can be insanely lucrative if you sell your soul and make partner. "But at what cost?" is a question never poised to the kids who go through these professional and emotional meat grinders.
I relate to a lot of the absolute painful things this person went through. I did some time at a Big4 consultancy and you'd see the alcoholism, cultish attitudes every single day (had one director who could not sell to clients with two beers in his system...)
That's not to mention the questionable ethics of charging hundreds of thousands of pounds in cold, hard cash for things that weren't even remotely that valuable. Government institutions would be spending £250k+ for what amounts to non-repeatable PowerBI dashboards. Or they'd assign anyone with a whiff of military experience to MOD and Police contracts, no matter how much you protester.
The hours you got subjected to were ridiculous, with a senior partner calling me on a Saturday morning to talk shop, whilst I was overseas on a well deserved holiday. If you didn't take the call? You could guarantee your P45 was waiting Monday.
Consulting firms are riddled with egotistical, ethical and moral sellouts (as intimated when this dude met old colleagues who did just thar), destined to achieve very little in life beyond stuffing their own and partners bank accounts with the public (and private sectors) money... In exchange for a logo in a report that tells you how good something is.
I kicked off a small consulting firm with some friends after I left the Big4 and retain a directorship in it to this day. We take 30% of revenue and give it to charitable causes before we see a penny and we were derided as a consulting conference for doing so. We spend time working with clients to actually build transformation that looks at people, process and technology for everyone involved and we are very human. We've done
Consulting can be insanely lucrative if you sell your soul and make partner. "But at what cost?" is a question never poised to the kids who go through these professional and emotional meat grinders.