One of my colleagues has been tasked with guiding a Division through compliance with some new legislation. The project is a complete train wreck, not helped by our new Head of Legal taking it upon himself to re-interpret the legislation to apply the spirit rather than the letter of the law.
The arguement's are going nowhere, so the Legal guy suggests my colleague hires some consultants to give a view - KPMG he suggests, they're the men for the job. So my colleague duly hires them, at great expense. But he is very disappointed to find that their over-priced advice is almost exactly the same as that from Legal. In fact it's almost verbatim.
A quick call to HR reveals our new Head of Legal joined us from, you guesssed it, KPMG. He's got my colleague to pay through the nose for a couple of his old mates to spin the same line. That's just cheeky.
