Now I’m sure that there are lots of consultants out there that bring value to customers that hire them on.  Many of these people are highly educated, intelligent and facilitate positive change in the company that have hired them.  However, in my working career I have never encountered one of these types of consultants before.  All I’ve seen from consultants are buffoons that regularly spit out esoteric jargon, try to change perfectly efficient policies and generally waste the time of the people that attend their meetings. 

Also, the representatives from this group that I’ve encountered tend to invariably be (in no particular order) unattractive, surly and lazy in the extreme, while at the same time being highly paid with generous expense accounts.  Which leads me to wonder, why didn’t I get into this gig?

Recruiter: "You know, you'd make a great consultant!"