On Jul 26, 2:22*pm, James Farrar wrote:
On Sat, 26 Jul 2008 13:28:41 +0100, "dB" wrote:
I always thought consultants were paid obscene amounts of money to waste
employees time asking them how to solve a problem, ignore their wisdom,
write a report based on the solution they had decided on beforehand and
depart before the whatsit hit the thingy!

MaxB

Yes, that sounds familiar. It's no coincidence that consultancy begins with
con ;-)

Consult: A cross between "con" and "insult".

(With thanks to Scott Adams).

It's not incompatible with my version if the management decision is to
hire consultants to override the wisdom of the staff and to produce
the solution that management hired them to produce (possibly on the
grounds that it's the solution that the particular consultancy always
produces).