[ewing]

Poor Chels, how can she scrape by on 130k

[shezza]

Well, if she earns it, more power to her. Long live capitalism!

[The KG9 Kid]

BOY, who did she have to...

Never mind.

[chance33_98]

It's NY - not out of line too much really, and she is a college grad if I am not mistaken. I make half that amount in Ohio and am a high school drop out. Hope she likes paying taxes! ;)

[DeFault User]

Chelsea works cheap. It took $8 million to hire her mother.

[SC Swamp Fox]

Just damn.

[TLBSHOW]

Way below the million she asked for.

[Archangelsk]

Two words: burdened overhead. The consulting game is one of the world's greatest scams.

[goodnesswins]

I'd hate to be HER boss.....

[ezo4]

ho

[TLI]

vomit,       just..........   vomit.

I have been honing my computer skills since `86, graduated 4 years college, 20 years part time military, done more, seen more, know more than that spawn of trash has been alive.  I'm lucky to break 30K in a field that laughs at you if you have less than a decade of experence.

Makes me want to vomit.

[rs79bm]

Chelsea has come a long way from being an ugly ass dirty haired domino monkey just a few years ago.

[Pearls Before Swine]

I'm sure she's earned the position and family influence had nothing to do with it.

[evolved_rage]

She'll be over her head, and with any luck....scandel....

[AnAmericanMother]

This firm chews up new hires and spits them out. You have to have a tremendous work ethic just to survive.

This kid has been handed everything on a silver platter from day one. Her bachelor's degree had to have been gained via special treatment, because she did not spend enough time on campus to get an honest degree from Stanford the old-fashioned way (working for it). She likely got "course credit" for gallivanting about on all those foreign trips with her mom and dad.

While she was allegedly studying at Oxford, she spent a good deal of time in Paris and other exotic locales with her gentleman friend instead of working with her tutor and preparing for exams. I have not heard that she has sat for her finals, let alone passed them. She will probably leave Oxford without a degree, just like her dear old dad, because Oxford apparently still has higher standards than Stanford.

But the buck stops here. I doubt that McKinsey will let her just be a figurehead, it would generate way too much resentment among other workaholic employees (and even middle management). Look for her to "move on to other opportunities soon."

Sorry if I sound bitter, but I worked hard for my degrees, and it cheapens all those involved when a degree is sold for money, power, or fame.

[AdA$tra]

From a marketing aspect, that is a bargain. The firm is instantly world famous in circles that would never have heard of them otherwise. The local equivalent around here is to hire ex_KU_basketball_stars and give them a corner office.

[FreedomFarmer]

mach 1.3?

That'll keep her hi-beams on for a long time.

[TheBattman]

You mean she's not going to be an intern?

[American Soldier]

What area is she doing consulting in?

I know McK has a 4-week intro program that is supposed to make anyone from horse doctors to undersea sponge harvesters into management consultants, but really... On the whole it is tough to work for McK as an associate without a top tier MBA and real work experience.

If she's working a public sector consulting section or something like that I could see her as a valuable addition...But realistically this kid doesn't even have any of her own connections.

This is a screwing to McK's other analysts and consultants who are going to have to pull Chelsea's weight. Nothing in her academic background suggests she has the quantitative skills or computer modeling ability to do anything useful. Her salary is doing to be a drain on the company's resources...the money would be better spend on bonuses for existing employees who know what they're doing.

Now a position as an ANALYST (typical for those without an MBA) would be perfectly reasonable. Many consulting firms will offer a "senior analyst" position (paying maybe 50-80 thousand after bonuses) to those with a Masters (but not an MBA, or not from a very good school). But this obvious give-away really dampens the admiration I previously had for this firm.

[stanz]

After three years of general consulting—say studying whether a Fortune 500 company should switch from selling apples to widgets—Chelsea will be able to specialize in anything from healthcare to consumer goods to corporate finance.

HEALTHCARE??? She only has to ask her mother for a little expertise.

[Slyfox]

Sounds like someone at McKinsey wants to meet Bill Clinton real bad.