It’s usually several projects they’re overseeing, so splitting time at different locations.

PS: I’m just guessing here. I have no clue how DOGE operates.

Consulting is a sales job where senior partners need to hit numbers which affect their compensation, so they will sell anything and everything in terms of the projects that they leverage their (balkanised, aggressively dysfunctional internal politics) firm’s weight to achieve credibility to perform a massive turnaround or implementation or some other such project, and then sic a bunch of people ranging from fuck all experience to just learning to play the game onto delivery. The partner will appear at key points to ensure that the executives who approved the contract are happy and hopefully sell the next round of work.

If they shit the bed, which they do frequently, no worries, they’ve already sold the next deal elsewhere and now their firm may be out from that organisation for a year or two and one of the others will come in and screw up for a few years and then they’ll be back.

Incidentally and because this should be a basic competency of government, the Australian government, owing to a huge number of significant scandals including one in which PwC used the information in crafting taxation law and then sold it to international corporations to fucking obliterate any sense of Chinese walls (in which no one has gone to jail and most careers have emerged semi intact, if with a bunch of egg that any self respecting person would go and take a long hard look in the mirror at themselves for having been involved in) - the last 3 years has seen a modest relocation of these basic functions of government internally.

Which one of our political party leaders is now campaigning on removing, in order to bring back the gravy train to the incompetent consulting fucks. (Both our primary party leadership need to have a stern talking to because one side is actively trying to channel MAGA energy, and the other seems unwilling to do anything useful.

So turns out I had a bit to get off my chest, I hope no one found that too boring

Running/managing the firm, doing pitches, sales, schmoozing, etc.

> I'm sorry but what are these guys working on that's taking precedence over this?

Their day-jobs at other various Musk enterprises.

Valuable experts are typically busy on long-term commitments.