Our team just wasted $1500 on a 'crisis simulation' that was totally useless

We hired a consultant to run a fake social media crisis drill for our department last quarter. The whole thing was a generic script about a product recall, but our actual business is software. It took a full day, and the scenarios they gave us didn't match anything we'd ever face. We paid them $1500 and learned nothing we could actually use. Has anyone found a training service that actually tailors their material to your specific industry?

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gray_nguyen210d ago

Sounds like you paid for a fire drill in a building with no doors. Classic consultant move.

piper_thompson3110d ago

Gray's comment hits on a bigger trend. It's like paying for a gym membership but the only machine is a broken treadmill. You see it with those meal kit services that send you every single ingredient, even salt, in its own plastic bag. They make a simple task feel complex and expensive, then call it a solution. The whole process becomes the product, and you're left holding the bag.