Last week Wednesday, I was casually finishing my supposed only beer of the night when a friend from class walked into Brats. He invited me to hang out with his group of friends. Turns out that the group of "friends" was actually a group of [a respectable consulting company's] consultants. They were trying to convince this friend to join their organization by taking him out.
The friend was being offered a $10k signing bonus and a $68k yearly salary. The three dudes' lines for the friend to join consisted of: we make a lot of money, how could you turn down $10k, now you can be the 'Big shot' in town, ... we make a lot of money. I was given some one-on-one time with the eldest member, whom had worked at Deloitte for 8 years and will call Bill from now on. Bill said he was a really, really fast riser and that the best way to move up was to do all of your work as fast as you can; then do the boss' work. But in 8 years of ridiculously fast rising, he never lead a project or created new work for existing projects and he won't be for awhile.
As I shortsightedly included 'non-profit' in my opening lines about myself, Bill's eyes glazed over. So I switched the topic back to Bill. I then found out that Bill had helped start two companies while in college and both were sold for a decent amount of money. I then asked Bill why he didn't feel the job at Deloitte was step down from working on a start-up? He replied that he wouldn't have been able to be apart of something bigger and then proceeded to list the companies he'd helped. It made me think back to the book, The Soul of a New Machine, which I had finished recently. In the book, all of the engineers are self-motivated to put in long hours for no extra pay, simply to challenge themselves and get their name on something monumental. This seemed a lot like Bill and his motivations for staying with [the respectable consulting company] for so long. To sustain yourself in the existing corporate ladder, you have to think this way.
Bill's exit line "Have fun with the (smirk) non-profit."
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My professor emailed the class today confirming our guest speaker, Penelope Trunk, for Thursday. The Madisonian recently wrote a blog entry about generation Y and why they're different than the previous generations.
Excerpt:
Here’s what a consulting job offers: Long hours in cities where you don’t live. On-demand work for demanding clients. Days and days of working on a client site where you do not even benefit from the supposedly forward-thinking corporate culture that a company like Deloitte has created. And, finally, isolation from all but a few co-workers who are at the same client as you.
Bill seems to fit into this trend as [his respectable consulting company] is on the referred to list of The Best Places To Launch A Career.
I'm still wondering where you're supposed to launch to...
The friend was being offered a $10k signing bonus and a $68k yearly salary. The three dudes' lines for the friend to join consisted of: we make a lot of money, how could you turn down $10k, now you can be the 'Big shot' in town, ... we make a lot of money. I was given some one-on-one time with the eldest member, whom had worked at Deloitte for 8 years and will call Bill from now on. Bill said he was a really, really fast riser and that the best way to move up was to do all of your work as fast as you can; then do the boss' work. But in 8 years of ridiculously fast rising, he never lead a project or created new work for existing projects and he won't be for awhile.
As I shortsightedly included 'non-profit' in my opening lines about myself, Bill's eyes glazed over. So I switched the topic back to Bill. I then found out that Bill had helped start two companies while in college and both were sold for a decent amount of money. I then asked Bill why he didn't feel the job at Deloitte was step down from working on a start-up? He replied that he wouldn't have been able to be apart of something bigger and then proceeded to list the companies he'd helped. It made me think back to the book, The Soul of a New Machine, which I had finished recently. In the book, all of the engineers are self-motivated to put in long hours for no extra pay, simply to challenge themselves and get their name on something monumental. This seemed a lot like Bill and his motivations for staying with [the respectable consulting company] for so long. To sustain yourself in the existing corporate ladder, you have to think this way.
Bill's exit line "Have fun with the (smirk) non-profit."
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My professor emailed the class today confirming our guest speaker, Penelope Trunk, for Thursday. The Madisonian recently wrote a blog entry about generation Y and why they're different than the previous generations.
Excerpt:
Here’s what a consulting job offers: Long hours in cities where you don’t live. On-demand work for demanding clients. Days and days of working on a client site where you do not even benefit from the supposedly forward-thinking corporate culture that a company like Deloitte has created. And, finally, isolation from all but a few co-workers who are at the same client as you.
Bill seems to fit into this trend as [his respectable consulting company] is on the referred to list of The Best Places To Launch A Career.
I'm still wondering where you're supposed to launch to...
posted by Bruhaha at 9:54 PM
1 Comments:
Having spent a summer at Deloitte, this is not typical behavior. I'm considering joining the firm because I actually never met anyone there who I didn't like. It was a actually a great experience and sorry you had to run into jerks like that. Each firm has their own personality but the guys you met at Deloitte aren't necessarily it.
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