# Management consulting digression and discussion from the What were you thinking thread **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [October 24, 2025, 11:30pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308 "2025-10-24T23:30:57Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 18
**Author:** ![carrps](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carrps/32/2957_2.png) [@carrps](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carrps)\ **Post date:** [October 25, 2025, 11:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308/18 "2025-10-25T23:22:21Z")
> [@What were you THINKING?](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-were-you-thinking/991532/5790): > > You did spark a little coal of old rage of having to sit through unhelpful and condescending bullshit from some overpaid and shallow consultants years ago in my short stint in the corporate world. I felt that spark as well. In my working lifetime, there were five-year cycles. A bunch of obnoxious (and they were _always_ obnoxious) consultants would come in and say we were doing everything wrong, and we need to do it all differently. Giant upheaval. Maybe some layoffs and/or reassignments. Then, five years later a different group of obnoxious consultants come in and tell us what those other guys told us was completely wrong. You need to do things _their_ way. Rinse and repeat. I never saw much improvement in performance or efficiency or much of anything. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/management-consulting-digression-and-discussion-from-the-what-were-you-thinking-thread/1024308)._