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Used to do enterprise-level custom app development. as a boutique shop, we worked through big NYC-based consultants that sold completely unrealistic apps to customers that we had to build. it didn't help that the consultants typically had no experience in the industry and often got the basic data mechanics completely wrong, so we'd build something on their specs only to find it wouldn't work for the customer whatsoever.
After the first failure, and quickly realizing that 20-something consultant kids would do and say anything to get a client, we started talking to the end-user clients directly after getting the project.
One thing I'll never forget, we were at a bar with Mitchell Madison Group consultants in Cincinnati (were working on a catalog printing calculator for Federated Department Stores) after a client dinner just unwinding. One of the FDS VPs comes in (he was at the dinner earlier) and monopolizes one of the smoking hot consultants, this girl couldn't have been older than 23, he was in his 50s, and he starts getting grabby, hands on her ass and a lot more. One of my compatriots artfully quips that about the inappropriateness of his actions and the consultant, who did have a few martinis in her, didn't miss a beat, looked him straight in the eye and said, "whatever the client wants, the client gets."
to this day, it was the most repulsive moment in my 25 years of working.
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