Again and again on this board, we are asked which consulting organisation is best. Well, sometimes those at the coal face know better than anyone else. So if you’re trying to decide which consulting organisation is the best place for you, you might consider some of these first-hand reports, helpfully compiled here in a single place for your consideration. Good luck in your new consulting career.ACCENTUREhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=accenture-------------------------------------------“Weak quasi-consulting quack house specialising in over-paying over-qualified unambitious grads to tap keyboards all day in awful provincial business parks, courting the hatred and contempt of real workers on site.”DELOITTEhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=deloitte-------------------------------------------“"Deloitte" comes from the Greek denomination of "De" and "Loitte". "De" translates directly to "miserable", with "Loitte" translating to "pathetic human being." Formerly known as Deloitte Touche Tohmatsu, the name was shortened to just "Deloitte" after it was discovered that "Touche" was a 3rd grade version of the word ass, and Tohmatsu was too difficult to say.”ERNST & YOUNGhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=ernst+%26+young-------------------------------------------“Essentially a pyramid rip-off scheme Amway would be proud of, the accounting firm Ernst & Young (aka EY) stands as a shining example of why people are willing to accept communism as alternative to a market society. The EY meat grinder is powered by recent college graduates looking for a door into upper-middle management. At the top of the food chain sit the partners and senior managers who glut themselves on the labors of their staffers. Typically, the best staffers are quickly offered more palatable positions at other companies, while others grow tired of the abuse and leave. The unimpressive few that remain are eventually made partners only because they lack the emotional maturity to handle a leadership position in any other industry.”KPMGhttp://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=kpmg-------------------------------------------“The cruelest form of punishment known to mankind. Some states are considering the use of KPMG as an alternative to the lethal injection. KPMG offices are characterized by a complete and utter disregard one’s family, friends, and life in general. Rare mutations of KPMG offices have a thing called Jump-start your weekend whereby staff are encouraged to begin their weekends at 3 pm on Friday afternoons during the summer months. Soon enough do they find out this fallacy applies only to admin’s and other hourly employees as they are constantly hounded by management that they are not meeting their chargeability goals. Prolonged exposure to KPMG can often lead to severe cases of KPMG-GTS, more commonly known as KPMG-ghost-ticking-syndro me where angry staff make desperate attempts to retaliate on KPMG management in hopes of financially and legally shafting the partners in the office.”

Still trying to decide if consulting is the right career for you? Have a look at this profile of the industry…-------------------------------------------Just one of the ways to be profitably and pleasantly (if uselessly) employed, from Stanley Bing's book, "100 Bulls**t Jobs … and How to Get Them" (Harper Collins). CONSULTANT“Have gun, will travel”-------------------------------------------$$: Entry level grunts may begin in the high five and low six figures. If you're a graduate of one of the huge consultant factories that leach humanity out of students and turn them into guns for hire--Wharton, and to a lesser extent, the somewhat squishier Stanford School of Business--you could be making an executive's salary almost immediately.-------------------------------------------The upside: It's a pretty easy job, with great travel benefits, nice hotels, drinks on the companies you are soaking. -------------------------------------------The downside: Your kids can never explain what you do to their friends.-------------------------------------------The dark side: You are a ninja, a samurai, a lone traveller on the road to nowhere. It's a very opulent nowhere if you're good at it. But somewhere in your heart, you want to come in from the cold. (from http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/bing/0704/gallery.bing_50jobs.fortune/19.html)

Look VI, you do not have to share with us the disgust you feel for yourself. By the way, you forgot to list McKinsey in that list of yours. Next time, do not drink and check out the forum during your lonely weekends. Claire did not accept your invitation to go out with you it seems.

This isn't original - it's a bunch of cut and paste, mostly all from the one website. Are Village Idiot and gdlreader related?

Oh pipe down you two. It’s just a bit of fun – made me laugh a bit, and what more can you ask for on a Monday morning?

Now, as nice as it is to see that its not just me that gets a hard time on here, I don't think that your personal attack on VI is justified!VI's post was lighthearted and amusing and for you to turn that into a personal attack on him is just silly!Ignore him VI, as you must have realised from the previous post about you, your very popular on this forum and everyone appreciates your witty insights!Just ignore them hun!

Thanx go 2 u Claire!!!! U r my fluffy bunny! My care bear! My lovely little pony!I fink u r ace!!!!!!!!!!! Meet me in the park for a MaccyDee's happy meal? I luv u the most....no returns!

Now, Claire, I would be very offended if a man addressed me with the words VI used for you. He is a merciless dog that one. Does not miss a chance to humiliate even naive Claire.

"Claire did not accept your invitation to go out with you it seems. ""Poor 'naive' Claire"..hmm..not insulting at all.Claire..do your ears burn all day with the amount you have written about you...??

Sometimes, but I am sure my ears don't burn as intensely as the hatered and loathing some posters must feel for themselves to be so critical and insulting of others!Some people try to make this board very personal and thats a shame. I bet they were bully's at school, trying to make themselves feel better by putting others down.I find it funny really that I cause such a reaction in these pathetic people without trying. They are obviously horrid human beings so if I cause them to feel so strongly then good! I hope I really get on their wick!They can say what they like, they don't know me so how can I take anything personally? I suggest anyone who comes under scrutiny by such idiots on here does the same thing, ignore the attention seeking little children!

They weren't bullies. All the school bullies went into i-banking. What you find on here are the bullied - those who are so downtrodden at work they can only feel powerful when they are anonymous online.