Bain consultants: why do so many of you wear branded fleeces and carry branded bags when you travel? Not antagonizing...I'm honestly curious why you want everyone to know where you work

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Bain is very good at managing their brand

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To be fair, it's good swag usually (won't say no to my branded Patagonia or Swell bottle)...
More seriously: not ashamed, dare I say proud of the company we work for and culture we carry (check Vault consulting ranking... Maybe you call it Stockholm syndrome, but fundamentally most of us actually really value and like our company culture)
And to be fair, most people don't give a $*** where we work. The only ones that notice are other consultants and maybe a few lost bankers comparing their own branded gym bag... :)

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They're proud to be number 1

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I don't think terrorists are trying to take down Bain, SM1...unless you're talking about getting bombarded by people who want to work for Bain...

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Patagucci

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Are you working in Tehran?

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Why do Greek members sport their letters everywhere?

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D1, well played

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Come on BCG calm down...you've got a banner plastered across a block on park ave...there's vanity, and then there's Kim kardashain

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Identity theft, tech theft, data theft, targeted profit kidnapping in innumerable cities around the world... Maybe I've just been excessively lucky in my employers/clients/projects. Traveling while female doesn't help either I suppose. But to the defense of what appears to be seen as paranoia, all those 'plane brown wrapper' suggestions were made to me on the job, not made up by me.

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Where have you ever seen a McKinsey sign?

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AND I AM PROUD TO WORK AT pwc TOO GODDAMN IT.

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I feel like it may be something deeper...looking forward to a response from Bain

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We're just playing catch up to you ;)

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Even on campus Bain swag was everywhere

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NERDS

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It's called culture.. And we love it! - you might not know what I mean... ... ...

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But don't think just because you're proud you need to wear it, I'm damn proud and I'm sure McK folks are too. Just doesn't drive me to wear the stuff. That said I know some BCGers who wear gear

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Obviously we don't need to wear it. We like to!

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I guess what I've been trying to get to is that we work in very confidential environments. I don't understand why you would want to compromise that by walking around to and from clients with an advertisement that Bain is advising them.

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