Corruption at work

[cojak]

People might think the job of the big consultancies is to get the job done, but their real role is to get as many of their consultants on the project as possible.

A few projects ago, one of the big system integrators kindly gave us a couple of graduates to use. Cost the project £500 a day each to do little more than filing and learn as much as they could "on the job".

And to get more more work packages from the client. I've seen some big consultancies use that as their ONLY role, once they are 'in', they don't have to worry about the deliverables of the original work package, as it's so bloody difficult to boot them out.

[Dallas]

Indeed, my last place, 25 of them, no one knew what they did, took the (rubbish) management three months to realise and get them out.

The place before it was the management (permie) who set up the consultancy and delivered a few apps that require permanent on site support - genius

[Cirrus]

A mate of my mate Cookie put forward this idea of providing testers to a big Mobile Phone company he was working for. He wanted my company to act as the front. I had zero confidence he could ever get this past the heirachy - Finance, PSL etc. As he was thinking in some tens of high margin people, I couldn't take the risk of it all blowing up.

Guess what?

He made over a million.

[PurpleGorilla]

People might think the job of the big consultancies is to get the job done, but their real role is to get as many of their consultants on the project as possible.

[original PM]

Well when you consider that the big consultancies are companies and therefore want to make a profit.

They make that money out of the companies they consult for therefore it is completely in their best interests to drag the project out as long as possible- even to the point of making it fail as long as they cannot be blamed for it.

So like the situation we are in now when you start to try to pin them down to deliverables you end getting more and more different 'project artefacts' with convoluted clauses in simply designed to ensure their asses are covered.

So you spend thousands playing games which really do not help towards the goal.

So why get them in in the first place? Well it is not possible the execs could actually go with the recommendations of the staff is it - as that would imply the staff are of similar value...

Ho hum

[IR35 Avoider]

Anyone seen "House of Lies", especially the first series? Hilarious levels of cynicism and corruption.

House of Lies is an American comedy television series created by Matthew Carnahan.[1] The show, which premiered on Showtime on January 8, 2012, is based on the book, House of Lies: How Management Consultants Steal Your Watch and Then Tell You the Time, written by Martin Kihn, a former consultant at Booz Allen Hamilton. It follows a group of management consultants who stop at nothing to get business deals done.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies

[Platypus]

Anyone seen "House of Lies", especially the first series? Hilarious levels of cynicism and corruption.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Lies

Thanks! Will take a look at this!