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Top Ten Things You Might Hear At BearingPoint |
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flashbacks |
| Date Posted: |
02/27/2006 |
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10. We promise we??ll promote you next time. 6 months later: We promise we??ll promote you next time. 12 months later??.
9. We gave you a promotion ?? you wanted a raise TOO?
8. All we need to make our engagements profitable is to have them run by MAs to save money.
7. Need a new laptop fast? No problem. Just call the offshore help desk, who will direct you to the proper form on Inside BE, which you should complete and forward to your MD, who will send to EVP, who will send to IBM/DELL, who will send to Siemens??
6. Please complete the e-Briefing ??Introduction to Certification?? by midnight tonight GMT. Failure to complete this certification will result in MD notification and loss of Marriott points.
5. These are exciting times
4. There will be plenty of time later for you to bond with your family ?? when your kids are in college.
3. We need to save money on engagements by buying non-refundable airline tickets, but don??t buy non-refundable tickets because they might result in change penalties.
2. All of our people are exceptional ?? except during annual reviews, when all of our people are average.
1. You want to double the scope on that project but not increase time or budget? No problem ?? we want to keep our clients happy and keep those $100 bonuses coming.
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| Message: |
What is really sad is I've heard every single one of these things on all the top ten lists more than once...verbatim.
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