Mrs. 1SBM just got some bad news ...

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23. So these consultants came in ...

... looked around, wrote a report recommending demotion of the non-white folk, accepted their fee, and went home happy. Seems to me this is bad faith on the part of the consultants.

The company I've worked at for the past 21 years is owned by a partnership of Engineers who had all worked together at another company. That firm was bought and sold 6 times over 5 years, each with its associated personnel shake-up. At various times, each of the 4 guys who now own this place have all "managed" some subset of the other 3They decided to form their own company, and I was hired when this business was about 6 years old. We have about 75 employees now, and NOBODY here works any harder than the 4 owners!

They hired a management consultant once, rather early in my tenure. He also produced a nice report, recommending big changes and several layoffs. They paid him, thanked him very much, and essentially threw his report into the circular file. If the owners of your wife's company are any kind of decent human beings, they'll probably do the same. If they're a publicly owned company, ruled by an anonymous board, who are really DON'T work for the company, then they'll probably implement the consultant's plan, and your wife will be seen as a victim of "progress" - which is, of course, utter bullshit.