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[–] 176 points 1 year ago (16 children)

Well, consulting is often used because they need an answer to a question. That may be open-ended like:

"What moves should we make to expand our business?"

But other times they just want confirmation:

"Should we merge with Discovery?" (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)

"Should we split with Discovery?" (Sure, I guess. Here are some reasons you could. cha-ching)

Other times they just need to pay people to give them excuses to lay off people. McKinsey's always available for that.

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  • [–] 120 points 1 year ago* (4 children)

    When Chipotle got a new CEO (Brian Niccol, who has since become the Starbucks CEO) a few years back, they were headquartered in Denver. But the CEO lived in Newport Beach. So they brought in a consulting management firm to examine where the best place in the country was for them to have their corporate headquarters.

    After weeks of analysis - surprise, surprise - they determined that the best place they could possibly have a corporate headquarters was in Newport Beach, where the CEO lived.

    So they fired most of their corporate workers and moved the office to be closer to the CEOs house.

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  • [–] 62 points 1 year ago (2 children)

    “Sorry we don’t do remote work and you’ll have to come into the office.”

    “Counterpoint: …”

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  • [–] 24 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 child)

    Starbucks has a mandatory 3 day a week RTO policy, but this same CEO did not relocate from Newport beach to Seattle.

    Instead, he has the corporate private jet fly him 2000 miles round trip every week.

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  • [–] 20 points 1 year ago

    I have experienced this where I work. There is a consulting company that gets rolled out to make packets full of "data", graphs, summaries, and surveys that always manages to support the unpopular thing the boss wants.

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  • [–] 57 points 1 year ago (4 children)

    Other times they just need to pay people to give them excuses to lay off people. McKinsey’s always available for that.

    What would you say... you do here?

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  • [–] 16 points 1 year ago

    Look, I already told you: I deal with the goddamn customers so the engineers don't have to. I have people skills. I am good at dealing with people! Can't you understand that!? What the hell is wrong with you people!!

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  • [–] 48 points 1 year ago* (3 children)

    McKinsey:

    For when you have no fucking clue how to do your job, and want authoritative, plausible deniability about that.

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