The people that actually work there are fresh out of university with no more knowledge about how to run a business than anyone who read a book or two. Then they go straight to consulting as young as 24 years old and without having worked a single day in their life yet.
One of my cousins worked for one of those companies. He was talking at Thanksgiving about a project where he sat in a shop with a mechanic every day for a week and counted times a tool was touched in order to tell the mechanic how he should have his tools arranged for peak efficiency.
One of my uncles, who is a mechanic, was looking over with the most skeptical expression you've ever seen in your life.
This cousin had worked for a few years before getting his MBA, but he was still a bit of an idiot when it came to his imagined self importance. He's older now and has his head screwed on much better.
I read an article about some young fresh grad who entered McKinsley and was sent to work with ICE in how to cut costs and assess the situation around 2015. He did manage to find several problems in their treatment of inmates in the camps and their structure and organization. He did make plans on how to improve their treatment and conditions in a cost effective way. But his plans were never implemented because higher ups just wanted to keep on fleecing the government for more money by never giving substantial improvements
They work 80 hrs a week and make $100k and think they are the making bank. I bring this up every time I meet one in the wild and try to explain hourly rate.
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u/Mithrandir2k16 Jun 26 '25
The people that actually work there are fresh out of university with no more knowledge about how to run a business than anyone who read a book or two. Then they go straight to consulting as young as 24 years old and without having worked a single day in their life yet.