Doesn't surprise me
In my experience of MBA-holders, they are mostly rather mediocre talents with such over-inflated belief in their talents that they can't work their way up the greasy pole, but have to leap-frog to realise their True Earning Potential by getting themselves £30k in the hole in return for a TLA after their name and some very blinkered ideas about what business is and what it is for (purely for profit, and purely to pass that profit on to shareholders).

Ambitious bright folk tend to either get recognised and promoted within an organisation, or leave and set up their own organisation. Ambitious thickies never work out how to get rich and spend their lives grumbling about why they never get promoted. (I suspect I might fit all too easily into this bracket).

But the special kind of thickie that thinks MBAs are a good idea have just enough self awareness to realise they'll never get anywhere on recognised merit, but are too ambitious to accept that and get a hobby, so they go off to business school, whence they can go back into business at a £20k premium to what they earned before, still come up with half-arsed ideas about how to improve things themselves, and not have to stick around to deal with the consequences of their fuckwitude.

Management consultancy is the ideal solution for such people - you can go in and ask colossally stupid questions and implement solutions that come from inside the company, and then pat yourself on the back for "facilitating the business change" while the consultancy is perfectly happy because, well, billable hours are billable hours and all the senior managers in the client company who signed off on the whole thing are either ex-management consultants themselves, or hope to be one day, or are MBA graduates who have been indoctrinated into thinking that only MBA-graduate management consultants can ever fix anything anywhere.

As you can probably guess, I sympathise. Grrr...
( shinyshinyscalp less a man, more a way of life, Mon 22 Mar 2010, 16:24, Reply)