Yep, I've been through the Cobra Group mangle as well.
In terms of training in how to become an amoral, utterly unscrupulous daylight robber, it's probably better than a Class C prison.

A similar experience of mine: got a call one day when unemployed that bandied around vague phrases like "exciting opportunity" and "good match for your skillset". Being young and naïve at the time, I duly agreed to go and interview with them, in their hideous fake-Greek temple offices in the arse end of some low-rent borough of Outer London.

It turned out to be an offer to train me as an IT consultant, which rather than making me any money would actually have set me back just shy of £9000.
( .Yeti. El amor en los tiempos del cólera, Thu 27 May 2010, 15:25, Reply)