How to identify an immoral maze

Re:How to identify an immoral maze by chasd00 on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @03:40PM (#22058242)

hah reminds me of the demotivator "Consulting, if you're not a part of the solution there's money to be made prolonging the problem"

I'm in consulting and there is a lot of that. Especially in big companies on big projects where entire teams can hide and just bill hours and a deliverable never materializes. The consultants have no emotional investment in the client and so as long as the invoices are paid no one is going to care.

Now, withhold payment until milestones are met or the deliverable is in production and everyone gets much more interested in productivity.

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Re:How to identify an immoral maze by downerending on Wednesday January 15, 2020 @07:54PM (#22060622)

Once worked at a large corp that called these "Arthurs" (after Arthur Anderson). The executives would order them up in bulk, as in "Project X needs 80 for the next six months".

Once, to meet deadline (and thus $$$) on integrating two alarming systems, they had an Arthur watch for alarms 24x7 on system one and manually type each one into system two. You won't learn that sort of thing at university.

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