Ahh yes, the great consulting night-out. Grab your consulting cronies, get ‘em together after work around 8 o’clock, grab dinner at a nice restaurant, head to the hotel bar, start drinking. Then, of course, after a few rounds, head to the local pub. After even more of a few rounds, head to the club. The club, like any good club, will be loud, have lots of dancing, scandalous people, and plenty of booze. Mix the dancing, some buzzing consulting cronies, scandalous people, and a lot of gin, vodka, whiskey, and other fine spirits, and you have an all-night bender, which of course after some dickhead behavior and mixing liquids even chemists can’t identify will lead to a splitting and nightmarish hangover the next morning. Of course, you’ll be out bending like Beckham until about 4 or 5 AM. Naturally, you’ll also have that client meeting you need to either participate in or, gasp, run at 8 AM the next morning.
Any good consultant can take these periods of time in stride by getting completely plowed and then walk in the next morning as sharp as nails and feel like a million bucks to tackle the important meeting. After the meeting, though, even the good consultant has to purge his wasteland of a stomach by heading to the client bathroom and acting like he has the flu and puke his brains out.
So, of course, the free alcohol, glamorous yet painful night out, and the 8 AM meetings make for a real dickhead.