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Surviving a Big 5 |
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Thats cause PWC blows |
| Date Posted: |
12/07/2001 |
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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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D&T is a lot better when it comes to work-life balance. Yeah we work long hours like everyone else but as long as you do your job, you can still have a life.
Also, don't be afraid to push back once you've established your reputation at your firm. That doesn't mean I can take every friday off but for 70k in NYC and the hope of being a partner in 15 years, I am hardly willing to become a slave to some idiot manager with 4 yrs experience. Maybe if I was making 120k as a Mckinsey consultant I would think about it.
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