McKinsey: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)

They thought about litigation, but then they realized that John will continue to out them (IE coal)....

Mckinsey is the morally bankrupt core of corporate America in undiluted concentrate form

John Oliver can do any segment about anything and it will still be the most funniest thing😂😂😂

Impressive piece. Even better since I am a Wharton MBA graduate. You portrayed the problem perfectly

Did anyone else keep thinking i can swipe left or right with the 4 dots next to Johns elbow? No? Just me? 😂😂😂

I worked at McKinsey a while ago, and most consultants treated non consultants like second class citizens, and I'm using the exact words from a consultant that told someone that moved from a consultancy position to an internal learning role, that how was it being a second class citizen now...

The 'laugh'-audio track was a bit on the early side this episode... or the 'audience' allready knew the punchlines before there we spoken...

Management: "Management may not do any of the labor but we have the very difficult task of making tough decisions and running the company."
Also Management: "Hi, yes, I'd like to hire you to make though decisions and run my company for me..."

They think they're Lloyd's Register or something.

Man, what a piece of shit company.

The pig problem sounds like an exercise in Fermi Estimation.

In physics, before we've had a chance to perform the experiment proper, it's good practice to establish an order-of-magnitude estimate which will give enough of a ballpark that we can reason out, for example, the scale of the experiment and the resources we'll need for it, and then if the experimental result is far off from our estimation, we can be certain that either something went very wrong in the experiment or we need to seriously reevaluate the assumptions we've been operating under about circumstances and mechanisms at play.

A good Fermi estimate won't be able to tell you 5,000 vs 6,000, but it will tell you that it's closer to 5,000 than 50,000. As an interview question, it will tell the interviewer how extensive interviewee's general knowledge is, and demonstrate their ability to make sound, logical deductions from related facts to answer a problem that at first glance can appear intractable.

That said, in the context of business I might be overly charitable in the degree of bullshit vs genuine cleverness is at play.

McKinsey is actually very effective at getting done the job that they are asked to do [keep our company afloat, help us sell this dangerous addictive drug to more people, etc]. Of course, they get some things wrong, such as the size of mobile phone market, which was nearly impossible to predict without knowing future tech & process innovations.

John Oliver outing every bad company and institution and government program etc etc is the highlight of my week, I’ll drop everything to hear about this 🔥

Our whole country's 2030 reform vision is based on a McKinsey consultation. So wow. Thanks.

All of my fears of companies that manage companies are true omg

Yet no one gets arrested … ever. Money is a good prison insulator.

As a former heroin addict who was pushed pills by a doctor I’m glad I can add McKinley to my shit list.

Remember that McKinsey birthed semi-sentient federal GOVBOT Pete Butt.

john oliver and his writers are awesome. especially his writers.

If you ever wondered how Digital Equipment Corporation (DEC) went from the 2nd largest computer company in the world (after IBM) to utter oblivion in less than a decade, now you know the answer. I was there and watched it happen. Still mad.
Anyway, thank you John!

Me ol’’ significant me was once offered an opportunity at McKinsey in the mid ‘90s in SA. I was so honoured and excited until I received the orientation programme. I’m so proud I declined the offer.. I felt like I was going to be a clone.

As someone whose whole upper management are mostly if not all McKinsey alums, outside of the horrible business direction that is very anti-employee MY GOD are their people skills none existent. A bunch of overgrown man babies who throw temper tantrums whenever there's something that doesn't go their way. As you can imagine our company's attrition rate has been sky high but according to upper management it is "stable" the same way that you losing a pint of blood per hour is "stable"

Edit: Also, just as another tidbit, they teach us this tjing called "vertical management" where you manage your manager because they're prone to blow up on you.

"Oh here we go, looks like you are spending a fortune on consulting fees. Cutting that is gonna be a real easy money saver."

John never disappoints! i feel well informed after watching any of his videos

Transcripts of all this show's investigations should be carved into cave walls so future generations will know who destroyed civilization.

How is this not illegal….

I wish I could get paid millions to give advice on things I know absolutely nothing about.

So that's where all the MBA frat students end up, at companies whose entire existence is just "I know a guy who can do that for you."

Price Waterhouse. 1994, the company I worked for, had 60% of world market of 12 seat jet aircraft. After these Fuck-tards, it’s now 0%.

Good work John!

John Oliver, you are wonderful ❤😊 🥳🎉🎊 Thank you for another fabulous video!
And thank goodness Last Week Tonight has some really awesome lawyers!!! 🙏❤😊
Now I'm going to listen to that "one more time"!!!😅🤣😂❤ 🥳🎉🎊

Meanwhile APPLE fired Jon Stewart for trying to criticize China and big corporations on their platform.

Only in America! 🇺🇲

Damn this is like a summary episode - so many past faces like opioid epidemic, prisons, Saudi Arabia etc.

Michael Bloomberg was all over that McKinsey Rikers deal.

Protect John Oliver at all cost!

God, that “hit the road jack” singing to lay people off made me want to vomit

This was an especially difficult episode to listen to. Thank you to john Oliver and team- this is news

Oink oink 🐖

damn i didnt know about the Purdue Pharma and FDA cross contamination with McKinsey.... so fucking slimey.

The rep defending the Saudi involvement looks like John Oliver’s long lost brother

Well, thank goodness we used Deloitte. LOL

Israel also killed a journalist + thousands of innocent people way before the October 7th. Why you didn’t label them as “horrible” as you did here with Saudi.

The western media hypocrisy is really sickening me this time.

Thank goodness for discovery.

what gets oversight first: global consulting companies or the us supreme court

How do you sleep at night working for a company like this? There is shi**y, then there is McKinsey.

Let me save you time:
"Evil corporatists with no values other than power and money do evil shit."
"For some reason I can not fathom, no one does a fucking thing about it."