What do you hate most about consulting culture?

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The jargon 💀

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THIS. IS. IT.

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High pitch voices saying "I think this is a great opportunity for your career" (while it really isn't).

Getting asked to cancel vacations because the team is under resourced.

Getting asked to volunteer your time (and over time) because you can work faster and better than others.

And the last straw, calling 50hrs/wk good wlb.

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BCG1 not everyone uses their free time just to “chill out and bs”. Your inability to engage in other productive and meaningful activities with 2 hours of free time does not translate them to a waste of time for others.

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People acting like their job is so important. There is some cool work out there but it's rare that you end up doing anything truly meaningful. If you're a manager or above & actually winning work or something, sure, I guess you can be considered important. But don't be in recent campus hire analyst/staff role and act like you're a critical cog in the business.

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Buzzwords

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Clients

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Everything is about utilization. No WLB.

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People pull rank cards and act like their $h!t don't stank

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People like this:

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Licking

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This

Working

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Forced lunches

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Titles

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Utilization

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(Always) ‘Hair on fire’ leadership. Living with it every single day.

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That’s just failure to plan. Apparently, Prior Planning Prevents Piss Poor Performance isn’t taught in Partner school.

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Depending on which client space you’re working in, being treated like untrusted step children. You have execute the “mother may I” or wait for mother to come in and do it for you. UGH!!!

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The jargon. Words and phrases like “bandwidth” (especially as a former IT guy), “ping”, “circle back”, and so on and so forth. Oh, and when people say “sorry, I was on mute” when they actually just were not paying attention.

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Other consulting folks especially Amazon. What’s with working 24/7?

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utilization rate is sometimes the only metric that matters for advancement

Timesheets down to the quarter hour and the uncertainty. Lost recompete and it took weeks for everything to shake out. Thought I was losing my job entirely for some of it.

Everything except the money.

Every task is "crucial"

I make a lot of money and hate the high tax rate

Even at the lower brackets most of your income gets eaten. Then at 250+ mark you start to hit high amounts of things eating at your paycheck

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