Letters to the Editor
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I'm shocked, shocked!
Consultants getting rich! Where have I heard that before?
In my own company.
For reasons unclear to me, many executives love consultants. Of one of our executives it is said that he never met a consultant that he didn't like -- or an employee that he did. Consultants are always better than employees, because ... well, because, you know ... they are better.
When executives get "really serious" about an issue, they hire consultants. And when they do, the sky is the limit. Other costs that would have given executives a heart attack, when incurred through the use of consultants, pass by almost without notice or concern.
Consultants come in, slap their dicks on the table, and make preposterous claims about their "value." And the executives eat it up. They can't get enough. They love it.
Whatever other virtues our politicians might have, it is obvious that they have adopted a corporate worldview with respect to consultants.
To all those of us peons who think that we're in the wrong line of work, I can only say: yes, we are. Whoever ends up in the White House, we need to remember who his or her true friends are. And it ain't us little people.