My experience as a business consultant in Dubai (2010) (opens in new tab)

> To drag someone down, you often have to sink lower than they are.

We're not talking about person-to-person mud-slinging, here.

The author is performing a useful public service by explicitly identifying the consulting company. This kind of bad behaviour is endemic, but very easy to dismiss, without specifics.

This is a corrosive practice that should not be socially unacceptable. It allows many people unfamiliar with the internals of an industry to live in a kind of "filter bubble."

There are many situations, organizations, or cultures where certain bad behaviours are an open secret, but largely unknown to anyone outside the context.