| Topic Name: |
Surviving a Big 5 |
| Message Name: |
Don't Have Kids |
| Date Posted: |
11/12/2001 |
| In Reply To: |
I will be starting work at a Big 5 in Northeast. Can anyone give me any tips on surviving a Big 5? |
| Message: |
and don't let anyone know of any potential weakness. Say Wednesday and Thursday are the days you have to pick your kids up at daycare. You get a very good first draft of a memo done for a Manager a day or two early and she sits on it for three weeks despite your consistent follow-ups. Then the client complains to the Partner, and the Partner leaves a voicemail for the Manager asking her to explain herself. Then on a Wednesday or Thursday the Manager shows up at your desk five minutes before you have to leave and asks if you can stay late, knowing that you have to say no, and knowing that if she'd come up to you two hours earlier you could have made other arrangements. Guess what she'll be doing at 5:30. You don't think she'd be telling the Partner that the reason the final memo isn't done is that you couldn't stay late, do you?
This is par for the course at PwC Boston. It may or may not be the same at other NE Big 5 offices.
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