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When I worked at PayPal, the Assistant Treasurer’s husband worked at Deloitte and then the Assistant Treasurer greatly expanded the number of consultants used b
by diogenescynic 4y ago
When I worked at PayPal, the Assistant Treasurer’s husband worked at Deloitte and then the Assistant Treasurer greatly expanded the number of consultants used by Deloitte (from the same team as her husband and many of them actually reported to her husband). They were usually working on unaccountable projects and billing us for work we did ourselves. Many of the consultants were fresh college grads with no relevant experience. Hilariously, one lived in Berkeley but would get a hotel in San Jose during the week to avoid commuting. I was always flabbergasted no one cared about how the budget was being spent. The people pushing consultant budgets are usually the worst sort of managers and doing it because of some ulterior motive in my opinion.
- etempleton 4y agoYou hire agencies or consultants for 1 of 3 reasons. 1. You have no idea what you are doing. You like shiny things and the consultants are shiny, fancy, and use big words. 2. You know what you are doing and realize you have a gap in your org and it will take too long to fix it so you need outside help in the short term. This is the only good reason to hire an agency or consultant. 3. You are a bad actor. Work is a political game to you that you are trying to win. Fuck the organization. Fuck your colleagues. A consulting firm can be both a shield and a hammer. It provides plausible deniability for failure, it gives you a trump card in arguments with colleagues and it buries everyone in fancy presentations, reports, and jargon that no human has the time to sit down and parse.