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by kioleanu 976 days ago
Mmm let me guess. McKinsey came to town?
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Did they hire 20000 contractors at crazy rates?
No, they’re famous for pushing for cutting costs from unnecessary resources, like good employees most of the times they’re hired.

One example from my anecdotes is when they did consulting work for a telecom in my home country and pushed for firing half the technicians who were working in pairs. One of the reasons they were working in pairs was safety, like one holding the ladder and they used this as an argument and said they can just be replaced by a safer ladder. Said and done. After the fourth accident the telecom outsourced the jobs to an external company that only sent… two people teams

> One of the reasons they were working in pairs was safety, like one holding the ladder and they used this as an argument and said they can just be replaced by a safer ladder. Said and done.

One consultant must had an orgasmic enlightenment while creating that powerpoint slide. Wonder what they are up to now.