A Black Feather, A poison pen... ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- what other field could pay three to ten times the going rate to produce no tangible result A few exchanges with the Grey Lady as she's been in and out of the office. Mostly the two of us taking turns skewering our usual favourite targets. The occasional lobbyist over here, the random high-level dumbassess from the various agencies over there, and of course, our favorite targets...consultants. Between my experiences as a technician dealing with consultants in my old private sector jobs and my experience as a minor bureaucrat, i have come to the conclusion that from a value standpoint, i could learn more profitable business strategies getting robbed, rolled and sodomized in front of a crack-house than i could from most consultants. the most recent one i've had to deal with, in addition to having produced nothing more tangiblle than a hefty set of billable hours is also one of those people who is trying to give George Hamilton a run for his money in just how heavily they can sun-damage themselves. Although with the sheer volume of freckling and spotting this case has gotten, where ol' George might someday make for nice some nice briefcase leather, this lady is going to look like a tacky attempt to make a wallet out of a gene-defective cheetah. Though to be fair, it isn't the horrid, frightful skin damage that makes me hate this consultant, it is the horrible, terrifying, aggravating overbearing attitude coupled with a severe lack of sense or competence. I mean, shit, arrogance as a byproduct of talent can be forgiveable (or at least understandable), but arrogance that is seemingly spontaneous and without foundation is just fucking annoying. I've come to the conclusion that the average consultant is not unlike the nickname of the intestine-dwelling alien parasites in Dreamcatcher... shit-weasels. 2:59 p.m. - 2003-03-21 ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- |
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