Which “Job” Is the Most Bullshit?

In my experience, most consultants tell you what you already know (ex. non profit with high turn over probably isn't the happiest or most efficient workplace) and offer vague advice. A lot seem to skim over the negatives in final reports.

Intimacy Coordinator

The answer is always anything HR.

Head of development are sociopaths. The HR bitch is the worst. They tell you how good the job is but they are miserable cows.

Instagram Model. It means you post selfies all day.

HR Business Partners were, in my experience, a bunch of yes men or women who helped justify whatever the big bosses wanted to do. They helped cover up firings that were either because the person was too old or making too much money. "We're sorry, but your job has been eliminated due to restructuring" is what was said, but what they meant was "You're too damn old and make too damn much money; we want someone half your age and price to do the same job." Yes, I'm bitter.

A project manager is very important. The difference between a good and bad one can mean halving the cost of the project (good) to doubling it (bad)

As for consulting, most companies use them because managers either are too afraid to admit or in a position where they cannot admit they screwed up so a consultant takes the pressure off.

For instance, where I work our GM was sued for age discrimination and they settled out of court. However the board had to back him to the hilt because they spent nearly a year choosing him. Then less than six month later he does this. Now the board cannot admit they were so blind. Because companies use arbitration now-a-days, no record in the courts exist of this. Later I learned this GM has been involved in three other discrimination lawsuits at his last job. Of course all were arbitration so no public record exists.

This has cost the company a lot of money but no one can do anything about him, because to do so, would expose the board was massively incompetent in hiring him, not investigating and not removing him. I only know because I happened to run across the H/R person in the last job in a social setting and was able to see "unofficially."

And now I can't say anything but a consultant who has no hand in the card game could.

I have never met a competent project manager, R7

Maybe they exist - like Yeti they are merely elusive?

[quote]both walking content-free zones.

What does this mean?

I'm not R7 but I've worked with a couple of stellar Project Managers that make you really lament all the others who fall short. They are rare.

R9

It means they are dumb - they are “content-free,” have nothing to contribute

Project managers and change managers have their place. I’ve been to meetings that ended with no one knowing who was going to do what, by when, because there was no project manager to keep things organized. It got so that I learned to end every meeting by summarizing the who, what, and by when for every task and agreement.

The Apprentice always had a project manager for each task.

Recruiter, without a doubt. They all follow the exact same script and ask the same extremely stupid questions.

How is it possible that no one has come up with a different, more effective approach to recruiting ?