Waiting for a bus that will never come, I’m cursing Alan Joyce

Consultants are especially useful for government departments that have chopped their headcount and now have nobody left to do the lost jobs. Like a wounded wildebeest laying out the welcome mat for the hyenas, the department first pays a consultant for suggesting these jobs be outsourced, and then hires another consultant to do the work that they once did back when they were an employee, now a bargain at twice the price.

If outsourcing government services was the disease, the transport…