The Consultants Are In Town
The consultants are in town. They arrive en mass every couple weeks; they rarely call and rather choose to send complicated and confusing PowerPoints and Visios. They disembark their colorful little car. Outwardly they are self-effacing and want only to please you, the client. Inwardly, they believe we are bumpkins, nothing more than a patch on a man’s ass, an open money conduit.
Their demeaor changes greatly when you start to pull unecessary and time-consuming tasks off their project plan. They become aggitated, short, agressive … pissy in a word. I admit that I enjoy too much when they begin to turn on each other out of frustration.
Soon, however, they cram themselves back into their little car and drive off. And shortly thereafter, another little car pulls up.
February 18th, 2006 at 12:36 pm
You kill me. Totally appropriate and truth be told, they are going to get back in the little car having learned more from you than you from them, except they get your money for doing it.
Ashamed to have been a consultant clown in a previous life ….
Bozo the Churbuck