[tonyedgecombe]

In my experience the more people pay you the better behaved they are, people who get things for free are the most entitled and abusive.

[collyw]

I would disagree based on experience at a previous workplace. We were paying a Salesforce consultancy a lot of money, so our technically clueless founders thought that gave them a licence to act like arseholes. One consultant had a nervous breakdown after a couple of months.

[jnwatson]

That’s a bit of a different relationship. The ability to fire the consultant changes the power dynamic.