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Accounting Intern |
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Beware of New Hire Managers! |
| Date Posted: |
08/23/2008 |
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PwC is coming to a campus near you, to recruit unsuspecting young people into their web of lies and deceit. They will sell you on how they value work-life balance (but have no actual plan in place to accomplish it...), and then make you work for 70+ hours per week. Of course, you don't "have" to work those kind of hours. You can put in 50 hours a week, but then all the people around you will judge you and sabotage your efforts, making you look like a fool when it is time to do reviews (PFFs). You will be deemed a moron (not a team player), and be out of a job fairly soon thereafter. That is, out of a job as soon as they can manufacture enough charges against you to consider you an "underperformer." Of course, you will not be paid overtime, and when you do the math, breaking out your starting salary of $50K per year, you really won't be getting paid as much as you thought when you add up all the hours. But then again, there is always the whole idea of the "wonderful experience" you will get working for them. Yes, it looks great on a resume. But the experience is not really all that and then some, as they would have you believe. So all of you unsuspecting students out there, be warned--live at the office, sew your blackberries to your hands with a sterile needle and thread, kiss up as much as you can (but don't be too obvious), and never, EVER share any personal information about yourself (that includes opinions about things...) that might make you seem unique. They want robots, not humans! Good luck! Now, let the recruiting process begin! |
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Beware of new hire managers!
When I was there, I had this new hire manager who really had no clue what she was doing. She was kind of creepy too. She was about 5 feet tall, weighed about 250 pounds, had no neck (literally, her head is attached to her shoulders!), and none of that would have mattered to me AT ALL if she were not a big-time, ultra-religious, bigot! She hated me, she hated me, and I knew it.
PROBLEM: I never did anything mean to her, never said anything mean to her, and WORK SHOULD NOT BE A POPULARITY CONTEST! You are there to get the work done. You are not their to make friends, and shoot the shit by the water cooler! You only need to be reasonably personable, which I always was...
Alas, I digress again...
She had people start a project, and of course, because she did not know what she was doing, they messed it up (blind leading the blind...). Soooo, she called me in. I spent hours undoing what they had done, AFTER I forced her to explain EXACTLY what needed to be done, etc...
I was nice about it, but not willing to waste any more time...
I stayed with her after hours, in the office, every day, until the last day (despite the FACT that I was always in the office in the morning about three hours before everyone else...). On the last day, I even went up and used my connections in the copying center to get them to get our presentation booklets printed at the last-minute so we could get them on the airplane in time for the presentation to the client in Tampa. That reminds me...
Aside: I was warned early on that befriending "the people lower down, such as executive assistants, etc...looked bad," and still don't know why...we are ALL PEOPLE, RIGHT? We are a team, right?...digressing again...what a GREAT firm culture, huh?
During this time, I was ALSO working on projects from another group, and another project from the same manager. ALL with a smile on my face, I might add...
Long story short, when it came time to do reviews, this sawed-off little runt of a bitch (you know who you are lady, and you'd better watch out! I know where you live...:-) had the audacity to say I spent time working on her OTHER project, and caused her main project to be delayed by "almost two hours!" NOT! It was NOT true. She also said that I did not follow her instructions properly, and had made a few errors. True, I made a few mistakes, mistakes which were caught, and I fixed quickly, and immediately. But I was told that we are ALL EXPECTED to make mistakes in that field, because that is how we learn... (that is their BS again...it only applies to you if they "like" you).
Well, needless to say, I approached her and asked her why she was ripping me apart like that. I had only joined her group a week before, to HELP her because she needed it. Little Mrs. Hitler said she liked the other people there better (the ones who screwed up in the first place), so she didn't want me back in her group...Really, she said that to me...
She did NOT write those other people up for their mistakes. She did not care that her review of me was going to cause a problem for me. In fact, I would be willing to bet the partner who talked about but crack on womens' chests put her up to it! Yes, people, it DOES happen...if you have not seen it yet, you have not been looking hard enough!
Little Mrs. Hitler failed to mention that I rescued her ass by filing everything in DMS (Tax File Standard) because she didn't KNOW HOW TO DO IT!!!! She failed to mention that I TAUGHT her how to file things in DMS properly. She failed to mention that if it had not been for me jumping through hoops like a circus bijon with my freaking tail on fire, her project would NEVER have been finished, and Office Depot would have been ultra pissed at her! BTW, Office Depot, they totally screwed up your "error ratio analysis"...just thought you should know that... :-)
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