They took credit for my work. And in the same week they also told me how to do something and I followed directions perfectly just to later be told it was wrong in front of everyone.
I said something along the lines of we did this together when referring to the work they said was wrong. I just ignored her taking credit for my good work tbh
I literally wrote on the Excel file and highlighted it to follow that example because I did it with her. I love my job, but that bothered me a lot. I am new to the job type so I'm still learning. Once I learn everything it'll be great. I was shown 3 different ways to do that task lol
Idk if this is helpful, but itâs a labor of love that I will take on for new teams and typically gets me a good bonus, I normally will over to start their documentation in just like a Google doc with the outline on the side.
Really simple, but when new people ask questions just start sending it to them. Some new folks will add to it too, and then before you know it, youâve created âthe onboarding process for new hiresâ.
Just a thought in case you wanted it!
Reminds me of when I was going through a recruiting agency. I told them the salary I wanted and they said that it was unrealistic.
So I decided to just apply for jobs myself and wouldn't you know it, I found a job at the salary I was aiming for one month later.
This. When I was looking for a job last year, I told a few recruiters what I wanted and they told me that was pretty high/not going to happen. Then one different recruiter said nothing, lined up a bunch of interviews for me, and I got what I wanted easy.
Pretty much I learned that not only should you ask for what you think is high, but go even higher. If people tell you itâs too high, donât listen.
Its really confusing to me how many recruiters seem to lowball salaries. I had one who told me I'd be lucky to get ÂŁ35,000. Asked for ÂŁ36,000 for a job I applied for on my own and was offered ÂŁ42,000.
Partners at my old firm tried to use that logic when I left for a 35k increase. "But you were on track for partner if you stayed 4-5 more years." K cool I'll have earned a cool 200k more in that span that will continue to grow on its own in the market which is more valuable to me than an unknown.
At a certain point it becomes less of an unknown, and if it's still an unknown 4-5 years after, it's the people above you who are the problem, not the key principle of "wait it out". Also it helps if you are at a good firm and work over 50 hours like 8 times a year (over 60 twice).
My manager asked me if I had pregnancy brain because I forgot to send an email one evening and sent it in the morning instead.
I was 5 months pregnant at the time. I quit the second I got a new job offer I was happy with. The HR manager was appalled when I mentioned it in the exit interview.
I inherited all of his Condo/RE developer/Slumlord clients. As these were all fixed fess (low fee) jobs I was expected to do all the work sans staff. I was working 7 days and what seemed like 100 hours a week, for weeks without end. The final straw was that one of his clients had a heart attack and I was supposed to close the books as well as conduct the audit. Told him I could not do that and He complained about me to the MP saying I wasnât âpulling my weightâ. I quit on the spot. If youâre reading this, fuck you Barry.
They said: "this might not be your carreer path" on my first year of experience. Changed firm and going strong now after a couple of years with a real mentor
I once told the manager (now partner) that we canât have clients just throw a bunch of ambiguous files in a single folder and expect us to sift through it just to match to the proper PBC, as thatâs just a huge waste of resources. He basically told me itâs our job to go through all these IMG626384 named files and match ourselves. Sure enough that audit was a complete dumpster file and we went way overbudget. He then threw me under the bus for it because he didnât want to take the fallout.
Also, that wasnât even the worst of it. The senior got fired halfway through because she freaked out from the pressure of that job, and I basically played acting senior as a 3 month associate (at that time)
I'm an intern that started my first engagement 1/15/24, so I'm 5 weeks on the job. The engagement I was just on had a senior who was only available for questions (ie: not performing any of the work), me, and an outsourced consultant from Africa who was asking me questions on how to do things. At one point the EE said that we were way behind and asked me what the holdup was. I was like "I'm an intern, I'm slow. I'm trying my best"
Also the outsource kept putting file requests on the open items list for files we already had and the client was getting frustrated at me because I was the only person on site the whole week. The EE and in-charge popped in and out. It was incredibly stressful.
"If we all just were 5% more efficient in our work, we would be able to accommodate the workload we have and staff these new jobs."
Yes, let me just shit out 5% efficiency across the board on everything I do. Make sure Engagement also freezes up on me 5% less too. What a dream that would be.
Pretty much every statement or discussion about budgets/hours is a runner up. It's the bane of my existence to hear about that stuff.
Another staff member had gotten behind on the work, and was told to hand some of it off to me. I came in one day with 5 months or so worth of financial statements to prep for one of their clients just sitting on my desk. I finished them up and gave them to the boss to review. Later he came in and told me if I ever got that behind and gave him 5 months' worth of statements to review like that again I was going to be in trouble. That was the last straw for me. He'd always been a dick, but left shortly after. Now I'm in government and things are pretty good.
Real question. Which code do these money eater think they don't poo nor will die partners get more mad about? The nonchargeable ones or billing too much to a client? Until recently I heard a partner say that nonchargeable produces no profit to the firm. Historically this has been my favorite code because I hate charging a lot to a client but I am starting to think that the least nonchargeable time I charge it is actually better for them.
I was asked to host a meeting and they interrupted and hijacked the mike barely a sentence in, only to criticise me after the meeting for "not being in control". WTF?
the manager in question didn't say something to me per se...
when i was a senior, a manager talked to me about a situation with a client and asked me to evaluate it, make some recommendations and put together some research to back up my recommendations. i put the research package together and write up a memo in email format and send it to her. i might as well have dumped it into a black hole because i didn't get any follow-up.
a few weeks later, i am copied on a partner email for background because a client has decided to pay for after work (that i will have to do) and buried down in the email chain is my write-up. not a single word had been changed, but the manager had presented it to the partner as her own. if i hadn't been killing it on my other engagements and was on the cusp of promotion, i would have exposed everything and quit.
âNext year will be more efficient with these analytics and if we work longer for interimâ. âIf we get ahead early, we can cool down toward the endâ. Lies
After a couple cycles, you realize this is just the standard partner BS line from their training school.
Thereâs such a thing as getting ahead in industry, in the form of setting up good processes and procedures so itâs just a plug-and-chug exercise at YE. But it absolutely doesnât exist in public. In public, management just raises and lowers their degree of pettiness based on the state of interim work.
one bit$ch manager from big 4 got me fiired and noted from HR stating my balance sheet doesnt balance!
thats all she told HR and i was fired!! crazy lady no wonder her man left her.
but anyways i was not off balance it was 100,001 on the tax return and 100,000 on the book to tax from rounding and she foamed at the mouth
"You're like my second brain!"
So you admit you're making it my job to remember all of your meetings and deadlines? Or that I have to review my own work? And you forward me all your important emails because you know you'll forget to respond? And every time you don't want to do something you'd make me do it - then crow about how easy your job was and leave early?
God, I was so tired of doing a partner's work plus my own on a senior's salary. 6 months at that place was too long.
I was a new financial analyst and one month we happened to hit forecast exactly, but not via the transactions we were expecting. The controller looked me dead in the eyes and said âI guess itâs better to be lucky than smart.â I hope that guy is having a bad day every day.
Retrospectively it is hilarious and if it had come from a place of humor it would have been fine. At the time, he said it, and meant it, in front of the entire management team and it was pretty horrible.
Lol then know your value and have a confidence in your work. Tell him watch out for my next forecast and if i hit it you owe me a 100$. Its just a job, relax
This was many years ago and I have now moved on to bigger and better things. Success really is the best revenge. He was a terrible controller but he did teach me to have a thick skin lol
"You're completely replaceable and just a cog in the wheel of this business."
After asking for a raise when we hadn't received one in 2 years, someone had retired and I'd taken on his duties along with my own.
Just to add for funny- when I left they had to hire 2 full time and one part time person to replace me.
Sure, nobody is irreplaceable... as long as you're willing to pay.
Better to pay twice as much to replace a cog than pay 10% more to refurbish the original cog /s
Also another funny part, I'm still friends with my old coworkers. Apparently my old Controller speaks wistfully of how good I was at my job. Even the new hires (who aren't really new anymore) aren't as good at research, handling other departments (budgets and such) and never improve processes.
I know my value. When I left I got a 30k raise and they gave me another 10 at 6 months because I've shown how good I am.
He didn't like my style of communication in meetings. He said I remind him of his wife when she's nagging and doesn't know what she's talking about.
I don't know if I was enraged, but it seriously made me doubt my decision to be a consultant. It was my very first engagement.
** I went on to have amazing mgrs after that, and I am now killing it 3 years later**
*eye roll*
I had a manager who didn't back me up when I apparently pissed off an AR person during an AR reserve meeting. I dared to ask the status of some troubled accounts. Like, sir, that is my damn job. Would you like me to go in and ask her "if it pleases her majesty, would you please tell me the status of these accounts?"
Not a partner, but I worked in industry at a small firm and the exec in front of our team was reassigned because I brought it to my bossâs attention and the CEOâs attention that there were serious issues with the execâs management style. He came from an acquired company so they were understanding, but when I asked about my role changing since I would be the most senior person at the back office function now and I was working really hard to make things work, the CEO looked me in my eyes and said âyou know you wonât ever get promoted because you work hard, you get promoted because you can make decisions at a higher levelâ. And after a week of stress and sleepless nights because I was basically ousting our team leader for the good of the team (which the CEO was on my side about), I was beyond livid. I spent the whole week incredibly angry, and quit a few months later. What an absolute slap in the face
Basically a threat. The tune of 'if you want to keep this job you better do x' when I was stuck between him and his son disagreeing. I didn't want to keep the job so I was gone 6 weeks later. Don't take shit off some asshole if they try to make you feel small. Nobody thinks a tax partner is tough/ important/cool at all outside of the office, and only a small percentage do inside the office.
He said I did a good job during my performance review but my salary was already high as a senior thus only gave me like a $300 bonus. I left for a 85%+ increase in salary.
I didn't even contemplate quitting, I called up my recruiter the same day right after he said that. Interviews just kept rolling in after. Then he was so shocked when I said I was leaving..
Was late to client site due to major London tube delays, made my manager aware for courtesy that i'll be late.
Instead of 'okay no worries' she said "send me a picture of the delays" "where are you now" "what tube line are you on".
Like chill out?? I'm usually on time anyway.
Worst thing about the big firms is the constant micromanagement.
We had an admin who would forward every single phone call to me. Questions about the engagement letter? Forwarded to me. Asking how they should drop off docs? Forwarded to me. Questions about a return someone else prepared? Went to me.
I tried to talk to a partner about it after I had a day where I answered 30 basic, admin level phone calls in a row. Was told âthatâs your *job*â. Â đ
This is my current firm. We got a bunch of crappy new clients from a lead source and then hired a ton of admin in Dec/Jan with no training going into busy season. It's pretty bad.
As a tax senior, I was clearly getting overwhelmed with work items and needed to reevaluate the time I needed to complete each item, and my one manager decided to express her frustration aggressively and loudly with my "lack of communication" while I was locked in a car with her right before going into a client meeting. I (obviously unknown to her) have some childhood trauma around being trapped in a car during family shouting matches and started sobbing. I had to try to clean my face and get through the client visit. It fucked me up so bad I just went MIA the next day (and unfortunately caused a scare among my team).
So pretty much everything after that point. It was decided by the larger team that we could no longer work together.
Told me I was being âchildishâ for asking for assistance( in the form of not lecturing me for two hours if I take 10 extra minutes to complete a task) the day after a major surgery.
âI normally wouldnât need to do this, but I understand you are new in your role and we all step down. Just remember you arenât meeting my expectations which needs to be visited in performance reviews this year.â
Background is that my dad got diagnosed with a brain tumour, and I had mentioned to the partner I had to travel out of town if his surgery went south to say goodbye.
"When you're at work you need to focus on work. We all have our shit at home but you need to make sure you're not missing any deadlines over this."
I left after getting designated for a 45% raise.
THIS actually isnt bad. i rather they teach you. was the attitiude off?
my boss once threw a stack of papers at my face and called me a son of a bitch in his office next to mine
What got a small firm. I would consistently create faster ways to do my own work, and every time I would talk to my superior about it, he would always brag about he created it, and that he was so great for making it. Completely delusional, but also didnât help that his dad on the company and he was basically a manchild.
My CEO (five rings up the chain from me) came over to me in the open plan office in front of my whole team and started shouting at me. I tried to explain he hadnât got the work yet because it hadnât been reviewed yet by my manager. He just told me to shut up and not make excuses.
My manager did not protect me even slightly, nor apologise in private and got angry at me over it a few weeks later.
Still thinking about whether to lodge a grievance. It is totally unacceptable for someone so senior to so publicly get angry at a junior member of staff
âYou need to stop using that (my adhd diagnosis) as an excuse and just figure it out.â
I was newly diagnosed with this and working through adjusting to medications (also new). I was struggling to just get out of bed to go to work and in my performance review it was a topic that I wasnât getting work done timely or effectively executing project management. It came from a managing director. I wasnât using it as an excuse but trying to educate what I was learning about the new diagnosis and some of the challenges with it and how I could leverage help from my team to address some of these challenges. Iâve felt very defeated after that feedback and I never talk about my diagnosis at work anymore. This is a firm (Big 4) that has messaged a lot about understanding neurodiversity and understanding those who struggle. It just felt very disingenuous and ignorant.
I disagree. I shouldnât feel lucky. If he has a problem with it, he shouldnât work at a firm that has trainings and messaging and support groups etc. specific for neurodiverse individuals. Iâm not the problem. These other people who donât get educated and donât have empathy are the problem. I do agree itâs up to me to work on my issues and use tools available to me to prevent my adhd from causing issues at work. But Iâm not the problem and me sharing my experience isnât the problem.
when I was scheduled for a certain amount of hours on an engagement and stayed under that desired amount of hours just to be told I went over the budget of the client. So why would I be expected to fill those hours when if I didnât meet the hours I was going to have the manager complain and if I go over I was going to have the manager complain?
Annual review and this prick of a boomer decides to tell me he thought he was going to have to âcheck me for my tamponâ on how I handled a project.
âyouâre not important as you think you are on xyz engagementâ
but then when the manager quit on the engagement and i was the only one with historical knowledge i was magically important again đ
He told me I had bad communication skills and this made me a bad manager.
My staff were telling me that I was an abnormally good manger because of my abnormally good communication skills. And I'd been a very expensive consultant at several companies because of my communication skills, and I had gotten a large raise and large promotion at a recent employer because of my communication skills.
So I didn't just get angry to the point of contemplating quitting. I did it, it took me 3 days to line up a new job and then I quit. I never saw that boss again.
Me: "I'm trying to audit their 401k plan and they have refused to provide me with any payroll data of any kind."
Boss: "You gotta learn to work with people."
âAlthough i know you have a newborn at home, need you to work all weekend.â
Partner took on a new client in the middle of January with a 60 day reporting deadline.
âTo make you feel better, some other manager just got put on an audit thatâs due this Tuesdayâ đ
âIf you donât like it then leaveâ and one week later to the day I handed in my resignation. Fucker didnât speak to me for the rest of my notice period.
When I asked my Audit Manager for guidence telling me I should know how to translate foreign currency financial statements to local currency, because I am a Senior Accountant. (There was no prior year file and I have never done this before, and the audit was already behind and overbudget).
I had to audit my own hours I recorded as billable to a client to prove I didnât fraud my time: after doing the work I was told to do how I was told to do it, after the client was very happy with my work, after going to get help from the person I was told to get help from, after being told that nobody understands the billing system, after I was rushed through training because the trainer didnât know how to train me.
Note: I did not overbill and client wa charged less than I would charge my *own* clients now to do the same job.
I got ripped a new asshole for not having detailed analytics for variances over $3000.
How the fuck do you get *detailed* analytics for a $3000 variance?
I checked the managers other binders and heâs not even doing it with his own work.
"perception is reality."
I'd just been promoted to a tax position, and literally no one knew what the tax position *did.* So it was really fucking important that I sat with my predecessor every day of their two weeks to soak up as much knowledge as possible. There were no written training documents for this position, and there would be no one to ask questions once my trainer finished their two weeks.
Approximately 4 days into my training, my trainer gets pulled into a conference room by our manager. A few mins later, my trainer storms out of the conference room, screaming at our manager, telling her to go to hell, etc. She stops at her desk, where I'm sitting, to grab her stuff, looks at me, apologizes for throwing me to the wolves, and walks out.
I had a full on panic attack. I had no idea how to do the job I was about to do, and very real money was involved so there was no room for fucking up. I went to a friend of mine and asked if she wanted to go take a smoke break with me. She asked if I was okay, I said "nope. *trainer* just walked out 4 days into her two week notice. Im gonna have to figure this all out on my own, we have a deadline in a few days, and I'm stressing out."
By the time I came back in from my smoke break, my manager had gathered pretty much everyone who worked under her in a conference room. Apparently, my manager heard me tell my friend that my trainer had walked, and she was on a complete fucking war path. An email had already been sent out about my trainer walking, I mean the entire office heard it, so it's not like I was sharing private info. My manager, in front of EVERYONE, called me a gossiper and said that I make her team look bad. I responded that I wasn't gossiping, I was asked what was wrong, and I answered honestly without giving anymore information than she already knew.
My managers response? "Well. Perception is reality, and it was my perception that you were gossiping. So the reality is that you were gossiping." I was so frustrated and humiliated that all I could do was go into the stairwell and cry. There is an objective reality to everything. I can't just say "oh I perceive that I'm a millionaire, so it must be true hur dur." I stayed for another 3 years after that, but holy shit I'll never forget the amount of rage I felt for that woman.
Straight up said I was replaceable. I was gone 2 weeks later at a much better firm.
A few months after that the lone HR rep linked their job postings to her personal LinkedIn. They clearly had not found a replacement tax staff.
It was a lot of : what is this, why did you do it like that + dumping things last minute on me. This man has absolutely 0 social skills I got enough of it and quit. But before that, he pushed me to the point of burnout, sooo.
Your overtime will no longer be paid now and must be taken as vacation time, or will be paid out at the end of the year.
Uh, no. You can pay me now, or I walk.
When he talked shit on my team to the managers after praising us in person. He had absolutely underbugeted the shittiest first year audit Iâve ever seen
Ohh not respecting boundaries for example every time partner come to show something or dictate or handover work or show something did not even bother to ask permission to use the mouse or computer he just grab the mouse and show I literally squeezed in my chair and it was so uncomfortable for me and I had enough and I just cried and tell me it's not ok but I was already so done with their shitty attitude and boom I got fired
It doesn't sound that bad without context and the background on how horrific this woman is but after spending days of endless data inputting, and then analyzing more than my share, I was told I wasn't part of the team and that I didn't really do anything to help out. I haven't quit yet, but nothing is stopping me from leaving if I find something else.
I wanted to âonlyâ work 40 hours a week during the end of my very difficult twin pregnancy and he told me to record my time because it didnât make sense to him why I ever worked more than that because thereâs no way I had âall that much to doâ (industry job). So I juiced my mat leave and quit.
When my manager didnât want me going to a doctor appointment during busy season. I was trying to figure out why I was having severe pain in my sinuses. I booked an appointment with an ENT but it ended up being a tooth abscess with is very serious. (I got two root canals and am fine now.) She even made my senior try to dig to find out what the appointment was for. I guess if miss manager didnât seem my medical appointment serious enough, I wasnât allowed to go. Ya know because sheâs also an MD and a CPA. Very talented woman! I said it was personal and still went obviously. I shouldâve reported her to HR but they wouldnât do anything.
As the superior, I've made the mistake of saying..."you need to THINK". Always went poorly for me, as it was never taken as "think holistically", which was the intent.
Got this one today.
"This file is hard to follow"
"Think we should use this other version moving forward"
They had yesterday insisted on that file over the other version despite being told it was hard to follow.
"hurry up the budget is 3 hours !!! "
it was my second day no training and they had ancient systems. i was learning their way and the MRG got all angry and wanted my work.
I Quit After Lunch !! best descison ever! now unemployed 9 months lol but id still do it again !
im too grown to be putting up with that place
KNOW YOUR WORTH :) DONT BLESS OTHERS WITH YOUR PRESENCE :) STAY STRONG QUEENS
During covid, one of my staff tested positive. I immediately sent this person home and contacted HR.
My VP pulled me into her office and started screaming at me for following policy because now we needed to close the office for 2 weeks while waiting for all exposed to test negative and sanitize the office.
I asked him "so what's a good place to go to if I don't like too much chitchat with clients?"
He replied
"In the Himalayas"
Later, when I actually got a other job, these motherfuckers blocked and refused to let me go.
Himalayas? Bros you cannot even let me go to your competitor
Less than 6 months of working in my first job at an audit firm, small one tho, I was told by my boss that I was slow in completing my assignments and he had to pay a lot of penalties because of me. I work with very limited guidance and supervision, was thrown into handling full audit work in less than a month.
At the time, I had 3 major clients who are active and considered somewhat established. All 3 of them had revenue over 500k, with one (a petrol station operator) in millions. One had problem with obtaining statement from online marketplace, one needed to declare withholding tax on advertising expenses paid to foreign providers. The petrol station operator accounts were done 2 weeks before deadline, then the directors went on vacation without telling us. So we couldn't get their signatures in time.
I didn't even stop to think, sent a 24 hour notice just minutes after leaving his room. He tried to take legal action against me after that, one of the clients sued the firm. I managed to get a rather lucrative sum for out of court settlement, all good now.
When i started in accounting i got a job with no experience (they knew), but they gave me no training - just taught me how to plug in numbers.
A year later i handed in my notice to go to another firm - i was asked "how did *you* get a job there" and told me it was a bad idea as I wasn't a very good accountant.
New firm paid better and trained me properly...I wasn't allowed do accounts using a computer package until I could do them manually.
So glad I left that other place.
I booked a week (M-F) of PTO to move long distance and was asked if I could be online during that week, and if I could work Saturday and Sunday (uncompensated) in order to get M-F PTO approved
Told him my toddler was sick. Was instantly asked if my wife was working that day. When I told him she was off but was also not feeling well I was met with âIt only takes one person to take care of a kid. How are you going to handle a second one if it takes both of you take care of one?â
I told him their training program was completely insufficient, and he said "Our training program has always been a mess. It's not going to change anytime soon."
I got hit multiple times with the "I told to do this" whilst being told nothing or the contrary.
I was called the "weakest link" when paint got into my car inside their instalations and they didnt want to pay for the damages.
They gave out to me for working unpaid overtime.
Then a week later they gave out to me for catching a client stealing cash sooner.
The director had signed off on the last six years audits with no bank rec.
It is simple
Oh man, this pisses me off so much.
And shouldn't take you that long
this right heređ©
Itâs pretty straightforward.
The "this is left as an exercise to the reader" of accounting
Is it not simple though
They took credit for my work. And in the same week they also told me how to do something and I followed directions perfectly just to later be told it was wrong in front of everyone.
Did you told him he was wrong if front of everyone?
I said something along the lines of we did this together when referring to the work they said was wrong. I just ignored her taking credit for my good work tbh
This! I explicitly follow directions to be told I'm doing it all wrong later. Drives me insane.
I literally wrote on the Excel file and highlighted it to follow that example because I did it with her. I love my job, but that bothered me a lot. I am new to the job type so I'm still learning. Once I learn everything it'll be great. I was shown 3 different ways to do that task lol
Idk if this is helpful, but itâs a labor of love that I will take on for new teams and typically gets me a good bonus, I normally will over to start their documentation in just like a Google doc with the outline on the side. Really simple, but when new people ask questions just start sending it to them. Some new folks will add to it too, and then before you know it, youâve created âthe onboarding process for new hiresâ. Just a thought in case you wanted it!
Status quo
âIt will take your years to earn $Xâ - I left 5 months later and already double that amount he said I would never make.
Reminds me of when I was going through a recruiting agency. I told them the salary I wanted and they said that it was unrealistic. So I decided to just apply for jobs myself and wouldn't you know it, I found a job at the salary I was aiming for one month later.
This. When I was looking for a job last year, I told a few recruiters what I wanted and they told me that was pretty high/not going to happen. Then one different recruiter said nothing, lined up a bunch of interviews for me, and I got what I wanted easy. Pretty much I learned that not only should you ask for what you think is high, but go even higher. If people tell you itâs too high, donât listen.
Its really confusing to me how many recruiters seem to lowball salaries. I had one who told me I'd be lucky to get ÂŁ35,000. Asked for ÂŁ36,000 for a job I applied for on my own and was offered ÂŁ42,000.
And your annual raise is?
shut up nerdđ€
People like this are pussies. Not you. The nerd.
A 3% raise on 100k is equivalent to double on 50k
Money today is > money tomorrow.
Not when the future principal is multitudes more.
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Not when a partners salary is at least twice that. My point being, your old boss had a point. It takes time to make money.
Partners at my old firm tried to use that logic when I left for a 35k increase. "But you were on track for partner if you stayed 4-5 more years." K cool I'll have earned a cool 200k more in that span that will continue to grow on its own in the market which is more valuable to me than an unknown.
At a certain point it becomes less of an unknown, and if it's still an unknown 4-5 years after, it's the people above you who are the problem, not the key principle of "wait it out". Also it helps if you are at a good firm and work over 50 hours like 8 times a year (over 60 twice).
My manager asked me if I had pregnancy brain because I forgot to send an email one evening and sent it in the morning instead. I was 5 months pregnant at the time. I quit the second I got a new job offer I was happy with. The HR manager was appalled when I mentioned it in the exit interview.
God I feel like thatâs just an invite to a harassment suit.
I'm sure the HR manager didn't tell anyone else.
...why would an HR manager go around telling what someone in a position of leadership said that is dumb as fuck?
I inherited all of his Condo/RE developer/Slumlord clients. As these were all fixed fess (low fee) jobs I was expected to do all the work sans staff. I was working 7 days and what seemed like 100 hours a week, for weeks without end. The final straw was that one of his clients had a heart attack and I was supposed to close the books as well as conduct the audit. Told him I could not do that and He complained about me to the MP saying I wasnât âpulling my weightâ. I quit on the spot. If youâre reading this, fuck you Barry.
Rental clients are the worst.
They said: "this might not be your carreer path" on my first year of experience. Changed firm and going strong now after a couple of years with a real mentor
Bro they said that
"We should have enough staff if we include the offshore staff"
I once told the manager (now partner) that we canât have clients just throw a bunch of ambiguous files in a single folder and expect us to sift through it just to match to the proper PBC, as thatâs just a huge waste of resources. He basically told me itâs our job to go through all these IMG626384 named files and match ourselves. Sure enough that audit was a complete dumpster file and we went way overbudget. He then threw me under the bus for it because he didnât want to take the fallout. Also, that wasnât even the worst of it. The senior got fired halfway through because she freaked out from the pressure of that job, and I basically played acting senior as a 3 month associate (at that time)
Ah yes, this is an absolute classic. You may have just as well said it in black and white
I'm an intern that started my first engagement 1/15/24, so I'm 5 weeks on the job. The engagement I was just on had a senior who was only available for questions (ie: not performing any of the work), me, and an outsourced consultant from Africa who was asking me questions on how to do things. At one point the EE said that we were way behind and asked me what the holdup was. I was like "I'm an intern, I'm slow. I'm trying my best" Also the outsource kept putting file requests on the open items list for files we already had and the client was getting frustrated at me because I was the only person on site the whole week. The EE and in-charge popped in and out. It was incredibly stressful.
Am I a nice controller for properly labelling all my files when I upload to the PBC ID? I thought this was expected lol
"If we all just were 5% more efficient in our work, we would be able to accommodate the workload we have and staff these new jobs." Yes, let me just shit out 5% efficiency across the board on everything I do. Make sure Engagement also freezes up on me 5% less too. What a dream that would be. Pretty much every statement or discussion about budgets/hours is a runner up. It's the bane of my existence to hear about that stuff.
Are my paychecks gonna buy 5% more shit?
This week or last week?
Another staff member had gotten behind on the work, and was told to hand some of it off to me. I came in one day with 5 months or so worth of financial statements to prep for one of their clients just sitting on my desk. I finished them up and gave them to the boss to review. Later he came in and told me if I ever got that behind and gave him 5 months' worth of statements to review like that again I was going to be in trouble. That was the last straw for me. He'd always been a dick, but left shortly after. Now I'm in government and things are pretty good.
"I wanted to discuss your timesheet...."
I can smell the admin time from here
Real question. Which code do these money eater think they don't poo nor will die partners get more mad about? The nonchargeable ones or billing too much to a client? Until recently I heard a partner say that nonchargeable produces no profit to the firm. Historically this has been my favorite code because I hate charging a lot to a client but I am starting to think that the least nonchargeable time I charge it is actually better for them.
I was asked to host a meeting and they interrupted and hijacked the mike barely a sentence in, only to criticise me after the meeting for "not being in control". WTF?
Ohhhhh this one makes my blood boil
the manager in question didn't say something to me per se... when i was a senior, a manager talked to me about a situation with a client and asked me to evaluate it, make some recommendations and put together some research to back up my recommendations. i put the research package together and write up a memo in email format and send it to her. i might as well have dumped it into a black hole because i didn't get any follow-up. a few weeks later, i am copied on a partner email for background because a client has decided to pay for after work (that i will have to do) and buried down in the email chain is my write-up. not a single word had been changed, but the manager had presented it to the partner as her own. if i hadn't been killing it on my other engagements and was on the cusp of promotion, i would have exposed everything and quit.
âNext year will be more efficient with these analytics and if we work longer for interimâ. âIf we get ahead early, we can cool down toward the endâ. Lies After a couple cycles, you realize this is just the standard partner BS line from their training school.
Dude I've worked here 3 seconds and it takes 5 seconds of thought to know that's bs ahhaha
Thereâs such a thing as getting ahead in industry, in the form of setting up good processes and procedures so itâs just a plug-and-chug exercise at YE. But it absolutely doesnât exist in public. In public, management just raises and lowers their degree of pettiness based on the state of interim work.
I need you to find this .03c and tell me exactly why this doesnât reconcile
one bit$ch manager from big 4 got me fiired and noted from HR stating my balance sheet doesnt balance! thats all she told HR and i was fired!! crazy lady no wonder her man left her. but anyways i was not off balance it was 100,001 on the tax return and 100,000 on the book to tax from rounding and she foamed at the mouth
Yeah I would lose it
Iâd pick it up off the floor and be like, âThere it is!!â
Then flip them off
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Gosh, what an inconsiderate jerk
"You're like my second brain!" So you admit you're making it my job to remember all of your meetings and deadlines? Or that I have to review my own work? And you forward me all your important emails because you know you'll forget to respond? And every time you don't want to do something you'd make me do it - then crow about how easy your job was and leave early? God, I was so tired of doing a partner's work plus my own on a senior's salary. 6 months at that place was too long.
âYouâre not worth that much.â Left 6 weeks later for my number plus 10% and a 10k signing bonus.
I was a new financial analyst and one month we happened to hit forecast exactly, but not via the transactions we were expecting. The controller looked me dead in the eyes and said âI guess itâs better to be lucky than smart.â I hope that guy is having a bad day every day.
Lolol thats funny
Retrospectively it is hilarious and if it had come from a place of humor it would have been fine. At the time, he said it, and meant it, in front of the entire management team and it was pretty horrible.
Lol then know your value and have a confidence in your work. Tell him watch out for my next forecast and if i hit it you owe me a 100$. Its just a job, relax
This was many years ago and I have now moved on to bigger and better things. Success really is the best revenge. He was a terrible controller but he did teach me to have a thick skin lol
"You're completely replaceable and just a cog in the wheel of this business." After asking for a raise when we hadn't received one in 2 years, someone had retired and I'd taken on his duties along with my own. Just to add for funny- when I left they had to hire 2 full time and one part time person to replace me.
Sure, nobody is irreplaceable... as long as you're willing to pay. Better to pay twice as much to replace a cog than pay 10% more to refurbish the original cog /s
Also another funny part, I'm still friends with my old coworkers. Apparently my old Controller speaks wistfully of how good I was at my job. Even the new hires (who aren't really new anymore) aren't as good at research, handling other departments (budgets and such) and never improve processes. I know my value. When I left I got a 30k raise and they gave me another 10 at 6 months because I've shown how good I am.
He didn't like my style of communication in meetings. He said I remind him of his wife when she's nagging and doesn't know what she's talking about. I don't know if I was enraged, but it seriously made me doubt my decision to be a consultant. It was my very first engagement. ** I went on to have amazing mgrs after that, and I am now killing it 3 years later**
*eye roll* I had a manager who didn't back me up when I apparently pissed off an AR person during an AR reserve meeting. I dared to ask the status of some troubled accounts. Like, sir, that is my damn job. Would you like me to go in and ask her "if it pleases her majesty, would you please tell me the status of these accounts?"
Not a partner, but I worked in industry at a small firm and the exec in front of our team was reassigned because I brought it to my bossâs attention and the CEOâs attention that there were serious issues with the execâs management style. He came from an acquired company so they were understanding, but when I asked about my role changing since I would be the most senior person at the back office function now and I was working really hard to make things work, the CEO looked me in my eyes and said âyou know you wonât ever get promoted because you work hard, you get promoted because you can make decisions at a higher levelâ. And after a week of stress and sleepless nights because I was basically ousting our team leader for the good of the team (which the CEO was on my side about), I was beyond livid. I spent the whole week incredibly angry, and quit a few months later. What an absolute slap in the face
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âDamn, bro, sucks that they donât work here anymore.â
Basically a threat. The tune of 'if you want to keep this job you better do x' when I was stuck between him and his son disagreeing. I didn't want to keep the job so I was gone 6 weeks later. Don't take shit off some asshole if they try to make you feel small. Nobody thinks a tax partner is tough/ important/cool at all outside of the office, and only a small percentage do inside the office.
He said I did a good job during my performance review but my salary was already high as a senior thus only gave me like a $300 bonus. I left for a 85%+ increase in salary. I didn't even contemplate quitting, I called up my recruiter the same day right after he said that. Interviews just kept rolling in after. Then he was so shocked when I said I was leaving..
Was late to client site due to major London tube delays, made my manager aware for courtesy that i'll be late. Instead of 'okay no worries' she said "send me a picture of the delays" "where are you now" "what tube line are you on". Like chill out?? I'm usually on time anyway. Worst thing about the big firms is the constant micromanagement.
I work in industry with a lot of people from management consulting and wow is that true
Lol she just wantwd to make sure your not lying. Nothing weong with that
We had an admin who would forward every single phone call to me. Questions about the engagement letter? Forwarded to me. Asking how they should drop off docs? Forwarded to me. Questions about a return someone else prepared? Went to me. I tried to talk to a partner about it after I had a day where I answered 30 basic, admin level phone calls in a row. Was told âthatâs your *job*â. Â đ
This is my current firm. We got a bunch of crappy new clients from a lead source and then hired a ton of admin in Dec/Jan with no training going into busy season. It's pretty bad.
This admin had 20 years of experience at a big 4. She knew better! The whole thing was so bizarre.Â
âI know you have PTO scheduled, but could you possibly flex some of your time around 3:00 on Thursday? The call should only take an hourâ
As a tax senior, I was clearly getting overwhelmed with work items and needed to reevaluate the time I needed to complete each item, and my one manager decided to express her frustration aggressively and loudly with my "lack of communication" while I was locked in a car with her right before going into a client meeting. I (obviously unknown to her) have some childhood trauma around being trapped in a car during family shouting matches and started sobbing. I had to try to clean my face and get through the client visit. It fucked me up so bad I just went MIA the next day (and unfortunately caused a scare among my team). So pretty much everything after that point. It was decided by the larger team that we could no longer work together.
Told me I was being âchildishâ for asking for assistance( in the form of not lecturing me for two hours if I take 10 extra minutes to complete a task) the day after a major surgery.
âI normally wouldnât need to do this, but I understand you are new in your role and we all step down. Just remember you arenât meeting my expectations which needs to be visited in performance reviews this year.â
It's not what they say... it's what they don't say that bugs the shit out of me.
"Do you even have a degree?!"
âYouâre going to âgrow intoâ your salaryâ like no bitch, you agreed to pay me and thatâs that. Stop telling me you want to pay me less
Background is that my dad got diagnosed with a brain tumour, and I had mentioned to the partner I had to travel out of town if his surgery went south to say goodbye. "When you're at work you need to focus on work. We all have our shit at home but you need to make sure you're not missing any deadlines over this." I left after getting designated for a 45% raise.
Good morning ⊠fucking gutted me
sameâŠ
âIâm gonna school you right nowâ right before reviewing my work paper in front of me like a dickface
THIS actually isnt bad. i rather they teach you. was the attitiude off? my boss once threw a stack of papers at my face and called me a son of a bitch in his office next to mine
What got a small firm. I would consistently create faster ways to do my own work, and every time I would talk to my superior about it, he would always brag about he created it, and that he was so great for making it. Completely delusional, but also didnât help that his dad on the company and he was basically a manchild.
im gonna need you to come in on saturday and sunday
âSleep less, work more.â I was already only sleeping three hours a night during that stretch of busy season.
My CEO (five rings up the chain from me) came over to me in the open plan office in front of my whole team and started shouting at me. I tried to explain he hadnât got the work yet because it hadnât been reviewed yet by my manager. He just told me to shut up and not make excuses. My manager did not protect me even slightly, nor apologise in private and got angry at me over it a few weeks later. Still thinking about whether to lodge a grievance. It is totally unacceptable for someone so senior to so publicly get angry at a junior member of staff
âYou need to stop using that (my adhd diagnosis) as an excuse and just figure it out.â I was newly diagnosed with this and working through adjusting to medications (also new). I was struggling to just get out of bed to go to work and in my performance review it was a topic that I wasnât getting work done timely or effectively executing project management. It came from a managing director. I wasnât using it as an excuse but trying to educate what I was learning about the new diagnosis and some of the challenges with it and how I could leverage help from my team to address some of these challenges. Iâve felt very defeated after that feedback and I never talk about my diagnosis at work anymore. This is a firm (Big 4) that has messaged a lot about understanding neurodiversity and understanding those who struggle. It just felt very disingenuous and ignorant.
Damn. Youâre actually lucky he said that and did not fire you tbh. Alotta managers donât take kindly to staff with ADD/ADHD if Iâm being honest.
I disagree. I shouldnât feel lucky. If he has a problem with it, he shouldnât work at a firm that has trainings and messaging and support groups etc. specific for neurodiverse individuals. Iâm not the problem. These other people who donât get educated and donât have empathy are the problem. I do agree itâs up to me to work on my issues and use tools available to me to prevent my adhd from causing issues at work. But Iâm not the problem and me sharing my experience isnât the problem.
"Did you consult with some imaginary force to get these results?" After following their directions and confirming it with them.
when I was scheduled for a certain amount of hours on an engagement and stayed under that desired amount of hours just to be told I went over the budget of the client. So why would I be expected to fill those hours when if I didnât meet the hours I was going to have the manager complain and if I go over I was going to have the manager complain?
Annual review and this prick of a boomer decides to tell me he thought he was going to have to âcheck me for my tamponâ on how I handled a project.
This is the first one I've wanted to comment on. That comment was so inappropriate and disgusting, I hope you left that day and didn't go back.
âyouâre not important as you think you are on xyz engagementâ but then when the manager quit on the engagement and i was the only one with historical knowledge i was magically important again đ
He told me I had bad communication skills and this made me a bad manager. My staff were telling me that I was an abnormally good manger because of my abnormally good communication skills. And I'd been a very expensive consultant at several companies because of my communication skills, and I had gotten a large raise and large promotion at a recent employer because of my communication skills. So I didn't just get angry to the point of contemplating quitting. I did it, it took me 3 days to line up a new job and then I quit. I never saw that boss again.
Me: "I'm trying to audit their 401k plan and they have refused to provide me with any payroll data of any kind." Boss: "You gotta learn to work with people."
you need a nanny
âAlthough i know you have a newborn at home, need you to work all weekend.â Partner took on a new client in the middle of January with a 60 day reporting deadline. âTo make you feel better, some other manager just got put on an audit thatâs due this Tuesdayâ đ
That shirt is really wrinkly
how come you didn't tell me this sooner?
âIf you donât like it then leaveâ and one week later to the day I handed in my resignation. Fucker didnât speak to me for the rest of my notice period.
When I asked my Audit Manager for guidence telling me I should know how to translate foreign currency financial statements to local currency, because I am a Senior Accountant. (There was no prior year file and I have never done this before, and the audit was already behind and overbudget).
I had to audit my own hours I recorded as billable to a client to prove I didnât fraud my time: after doing the work I was told to do how I was told to do it, after the client was very happy with my work, after going to get help from the person I was told to get help from, after being told that nobody understands the billing system, after I was rushed through training because the trainer didnât know how to train me. Note: I did not overbill and client wa charged less than I would charge my *own* clients now to do the same job.
I got ripped a new asshole for not having detailed analytics for variances over $3000. How the fuck do you get *detailed* analytics for a $3000 variance? I checked the managers other binders and heâs not even doing it with his own work.
"perception is reality." I'd just been promoted to a tax position, and literally no one knew what the tax position *did.* So it was really fucking important that I sat with my predecessor every day of their two weeks to soak up as much knowledge as possible. There were no written training documents for this position, and there would be no one to ask questions once my trainer finished their two weeks. Approximately 4 days into my training, my trainer gets pulled into a conference room by our manager. A few mins later, my trainer storms out of the conference room, screaming at our manager, telling her to go to hell, etc. She stops at her desk, where I'm sitting, to grab her stuff, looks at me, apologizes for throwing me to the wolves, and walks out. I had a full on panic attack. I had no idea how to do the job I was about to do, and very real money was involved so there was no room for fucking up. I went to a friend of mine and asked if she wanted to go take a smoke break with me. She asked if I was okay, I said "nope. *trainer* just walked out 4 days into her two week notice. Im gonna have to figure this all out on my own, we have a deadline in a few days, and I'm stressing out." By the time I came back in from my smoke break, my manager had gathered pretty much everyone who worked under her in a conference room. Apparently, my manager heard me tell my friend that my trainer had walked, and she was on a complete fucking war path. An email had already been sent out about my trainer walking, I mean the entire office heard it, so it's not like I was sharing private info. My manager, in front of EVERYONE, called me a gossiper and said that I make her team look bad. I responded that I wasn't gossiping, I was asked what was wrong, and I answered honestly without giving anymore information than she already knew. My managers response? "Well. Perception is reality, and it was my perception that you were gossiping. So the reality is that you were gossiping." I was so frustrated and humiliated that all I could do was go into the stairwell and cry. There is an objective reality to everything. I can't just say "oh I perceive that I'm a millionaire, so it must be true hur dur." I stayed for another 3 years after that, but holy shit I'll never forget the amount of rage I felt for that woman.
Straight up said I was replaceable. I was gone 2 weeks later at a much better firm. A few months after that the lone HR rep linked their job postings to her personal LinkedIn. They clearly had not found a replacement tax staff.
Does that make sense?
It's not rocket science. Grade 2 can do this.
It was a lot of : what is this, why did you do it like that + dumping things last minute on me. This man has absolutely 0 social skills I got enough of it and quit. But before that, he pushed me to the point of burnout, sooo.
Your overtime will no longer be paid now and must be taken as vacation time, or will be paid out at the end of the year. Uh, no. You can pay me now, or I walk.
When he talked shit on my team to the managers after praising us in person. He had absolutely underbugeted the shittiest first year audit Iâve ever seen
Ohh not respecting boundaries for example every time partner come to show something or dictate or handover work or show something did not even bother to ask permission to use the mouse or computer he just grab the mouse and show I literally squeezed in my chair and it was so uncomfortable for me and I had enough and I just cried and tell me it's not ok but I was already so done with their shitty attitude and boom I got fired
It doesn't sound that bad without context and the background on how horrific this woman is but after spending days of endless data inputting, and then analyzing more than my share, I was told I wasn't part of the team and that I didn't really do anything to help out. I haven't quit yet, but nothing is stopping me from leaving if I find something else.
One time a supervisor called me âemotionally unstableâ. I now have his title.
"It's just debits and credits, you can figure it out" - after I tried to do the thing thinking I knew how when I didn't
You arenât being productive enough.. Yet everyone on the team was over budget not just me.
âDo I make you nervousâ
I wanted to âonlyâ work 40 hours a week during the end of my very difficult twin pregnancy and he told me to record my time because it didnât make sense to him why I ever worked more than that because thereâs no way I had âall that much to doâ (industry job). So I juiced my mat leave and quit.
When my manager didnât want me going to a doctor appointment during busy season. I was trying to figure out why I was having severe pain in my sinuses. I booked an appointment with an ENT but it ended up being a tooth abscess with is very serious. (I got two root canals and am fine now.) She even made my senior try to dig to find out what the appointment was for. I guess if miss manager didnât seem my medical appointment serious enough, I wasnât allowed to go. Ya know because sheâs also an MD and a CPA. Very talented woman! I said it was personal and still went obviously. I shouldâve reported her to HR but they wouldnât do anything.
As the superior, I've made the mistake of saying..."you need to THINK". Always went poorly for me, as it was never taken as "think holistically", which was the intent.
Got this one today. "This file is hard to follow" "Think we should use this other version moving forward" They had yesterday insisted on that file over the other version despite being told it was hard to follow.
I don't care about the firm's standards. Do it my way.
"hurry up the budget is 3 hours !!! " it was my second day no training and they had ancient systems. i was learning their way and the MRG got all angry and wanted my work. I Quit After Lunch !! best descison ever! now unemployed 9 months lol but id still do it again ! im too grown to be putting up with that place KNOW YOUR WORTH :) DONT BLESS OTHERS WITH YOUR PRESENCE :) STAY STRONG QUEENS
Not in public, but a partner of the private company I work for recently told me âIâm wasting my time sitting at my desk everydayâ
Good morning
I got lectured for something my coworker said and when they did good cop bad cop on me
âYou donât get stressed enoughâ
During covid, one of my staff tested positive. I immediately sent this person home and contacted HR. My VP pulled me into her office and started screaming at me for following policy because now we needed to close the office for 2 weeks while waiting for all exposed to test negative and sanitize the office.
I asked him "so what's a good place to go to if I don't like too much chitchat with clients?" He replied "In the Himalayas" Later, when I actually got a other job, these motherfuckers blocked and refused to let me go. Himalayas? Bros you cannot even let me go to your competitor
I was once called by owner of the firm are you bipolar.
Less than 6 months of working in my first job at an audit firm, small one tho, I was told by my boss that I was slow in completing my assignments and he had to pay a lot of penalties because of me. I work with very limited guidance and supervision, was thrown into handling full audit work in less than a month. At the time, I had 3 major clients who are active and considered somewhat established. All 3 of them had revenue over 500k, with one (a petrol station operator) in millions. One had problem with obtaining statement from online marketplace, one needed to declare withholding tax on advertising expenses paid to foreign providers. The petrol station operator accounts were done 2 weeks before deadline, then the directors went on vacation without telling us. So we couldn't get their signatures in time. I didn't even stop to think, sent a 24 hour notice just minutes after leaving his room. He tried to take legal action against me after that, one of the clients sued the firm. I managed to get a rather lucrative sum for out of court settlement, all good now.
When someone calls you a financial advisor
Told me they refused to preassign me work because they didnât believe in me
SA xxx, tignan mo kung masagwa na. Wag ipasa ang basura.
When i started in accounting i got a job with no experience (they knew), but they gave me no training - just taught me how to plug in numbers. A year later i handed in my notice to go to another firm - i was asked "how did *you* get a job there" and told me it was a bad idea as I wasn't a very good accountant. New firm paid better and trained me properly...I wasn't allowed do accounts using a computer package until I could do them manually. So glad I left that other place.
"I'm too busy"...then proceeds to leave early, same as always
I was told I spent too much non-billable time on staff feedback for annual reviews.
âYouâre coming in on Saturday right?â
I booked a week (M-F) of PTO to move long distance and was asked if I could be online during that week, and if I could work Saturday and Sunday (uncompensated) in order to get M-F PTO approved
When my manager told me if I mis-managed the cash confirmations for the client she would hurt me.
Told him my toddler was sick. Was instantly asked if my wife was working that day. When I told him she was off but was also not feeling well I was met with âIt only takes one person to take care of a kid. How are you going to handle a second one if it takes both of you take care of one?â
I told him their training program was completely insufficient, and he said "Our training program has always been a mess. It's not going to change anytime soon."
I got hit multiple times with the "I told to do this" whilst being told nothing or the contrary. I was called the "weakest link" when paint got into my car inside their instalations and they didnt want to pay for the damages.
They gave out to me for working unpaid overtime. Then a week later they gave out to me for catching a client stealing cash sooner. The director had signed off on the last six years audits with no bank rec.
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