You said that "no one got fired for hiring McKinsey". I guess you arent counting the people at some of their clients. Swissair was mentioned, as was Enron. A lot of people fired at Enron. I think KMart used them too. A while back there was if I recall a cover story about them in Business Week. It made interesting reading. When I read the NY Times article saying UA was using them I almost choked.