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USA Today: White Collar Sweatshops |
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The article is correct |
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12/25/2002 |
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http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/editorials/2002-11-25-vanderkam_x.htm
The above article has been circulating... it calls McKinsey and BCG (as well as other consulting firms) "the greatest scam in corporate America."
The article's thesis seems contradictory. "These kids are savvy enough to know what they're getting into," but yet "he doesn't notice that he's working for $12 an hour." The author can't have it both ways--either people know and accept it or they don't. And if people are savvy enough to know the bargain, how can it be a scam? Moreover, how can she argue that people are underpaid or overworked when labor is half of total expenses?
This sort of sensationalism is typical of that newspaper, and it can be answered rather easily: to each his own. We all make different tradeoffs on our time, money, advancement potential, etc... which is why I'm not a writer. |
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It's a scam because consulting plays off of the personality traits of the consultant:
-driven
-ambitious
-highly motivated
-competitive
and uses those traits to drive them to overwork for not so much money.
It's like hamsters on a wheel chasing food they will never reach or a monkey that can't get out of a trap because it refuses to let go of the banana.
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