My bosses are talking to 'law firm consultants' this week

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We have no idea what it means. Are they going to be like the 'efficiency experts' in Office Space? Are we all going to be interviewed for our jobs? Is it just about their practice? Should we kiss up or just kiss the internet goodbye???

Have any of y'all experienced this?

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:40 (twenty years ago)

soon all your work will be done by a giant electronic brain!!

― lychee mello (Jody Beth Rosen), Monday, 14 March 2005 18:44 (twenty years ago)

conflicts related, maybe?

― Mr. Harvey Weinstein (mr harvey weinstein), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:07 (twenty years ago)

Do you know why, luna?

― Michael White (Hereward), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:09 (twenty years ago)

Not a clue.

― luna (luna.c), Monday, 14 March 2005 19:13 (twenty years ago)

Whatever it is they actually end up doing, they undoubtedly promised that their services will result in the firm's partners making so much money that their clothes and hair will begin to smell like money, their complexions will become the color of money and their spouses will stop harassing them to make still more money. This is what consultants do. They also play with dolls.

― Aimless (Aimless), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:01 (twenty years ago)

Consultants pefer the term 'action figures.'

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:09 (twenty years ago)

I once worked in the IT department of a much larger company. IT was considered to be a "problem" department and so consultants were hired to come in and reorganize things.

Even though I was technically part of the IT department, I worked in another department and really didn't interact much with the "problem" but I still had to be interviewed, sit in on "team-building" meetings and all the usual B.S. After a couple months of this I bailed on the company and looked for another job.

― Elvis Telecom (Chris Barrus), Monday, 14 March 2005 21:19 (twenty years ago)

quit yer downloadin' on ye work calculatin engines ye scurvey dogs.

― lukey (Lukey G), Tuesday, 15 March 2005 11:06 (twenty years ago)

five years pass...

I once worked in the IT department of a much larger company. IT was considered to be a "problem" department and so consultants were hired to come in and reorganize things.

Ha! Five years after I wrote that, my current workplace is bringing a consultant in tomorrow. Other programmers were supposedly told to "put on a unified happy face" but no one told me about it.

― Stockhausen's Ekranoplan Quartet (Elvis Telecom), Tuesday, 7 December 2010 06:47 (fourteen years ago)

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