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    Accounting First week at government internship. Supervisor (GS 14 step 10) has logged off at 4 pm everyday this week. She makes 176,000 dollars. I’m never leaving.

    January 22, 2022

    Accounting First week at government internship. Supervisor (GS 14 step 10) has logged off at 4 pm everyday this week. She makes 176,000 dollars. I’m never leaving.

    First week at government internship. Supervisor (GS 14 step 10) has logged off at 4 pm everyday this week. She makes 176,000 dollars. I’m never leaving.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 04:34 PM PST

    Thank you taxpayers. UNCLE SAM NEEDS YOUR MONEY!!!

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    When it’s busy season and your family asks why they haven’t seen you in two weeks

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 04:35 AM PST

    I know a lot of you auditors are working long hours and weekends. I just want to say that you are doing important work and are heroes. And I plan on sending you that account rec, which doesn't tie to anything or have any of the support you requested, in PDF format on Monday. Have a good weekend!

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 05:28 AM PST

    You can’t make this up

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 10:22 AM PST

    Me when the partner asks why we won’t finish at the deadline and brings up that the audit is over budget

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 07:11 AM PST

    3 people quit in the last 2 weeks, I’m going to get assigned an additional 100 charge hours this busy season on Monday. What do I do?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 05:17 PM PST

    These were all managers and now their clients are being scattered to us remaining. I'm already scheduled to work 65-70 charge hours all busy season. Which is already extremely high for a regional firm (left B4).

    Not sure what to do. I came to a regional firm so I wouldn't work crazy hours. These 70 charge hours as is are closer to 80 real life hours when I factor in all my non charge manager items.

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    Partners - Will we make it through this?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 06:47 AM PST

    Can we game plan for how we make it through the uptick in entitlement from our workers??

    Times are changing. Our employees don't understand how much money we make and how desirable it is to spend 15+ years to get to our level. Nobody wants to work anymore and morale is at an all time low.

    I'm doing everything I can in this environment to challenge the new anti public accounting narrative. A generous 5% cost of living raise, a party we catered at my home, more snacks in the break room, allowing inefficient WFH, pressuring employees to suck it up, and lecturing about how leaving for industry is a career killer. But apparently that's not enough these days!

    My new plan is to just relate better to these employees. Here are some ideas I've tried: I'm risking my data by downloading TikTok, I've been picking up my own coffee from my assistant's desk, I'm driving an electric Porsche Taycan to show my concern for climates.

    Please reply with your ideas to retain employees without reduction in hours worked and still maintaining our bottom line - let's get creative!

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    When pizza doesn't boost morale anymore, hit em with the religious blackmail

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 06:24 AM PST

    What do you do when you've worked 12 hour days for the last several weeks and your brain just says "Enough!" and literally stops working but you still have so much to do?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 03:30 PM PST

    What is with public accounting and skipping lunch?

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 11:13 AM PST

    Whenever I'm onsite for public I feel like I'm always pressured to work through lunch. I never see my seniors or managers take a notable lunch, they just work through lunch and eat while they work. I feel guilty if I take an hour while they continue to work, but I'm getting paid for 8 hours, not 9, so if we aren't leaving early why are we working through lunch?! That's not even considering now that we're in busy season and people are working 10+ hours a day and weekends.

    Is anyone else seeing this trend, and if so, how do you deal with it?

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    Name me a dumber thing than Zoom happy hour

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 02:12 PM PST

    Like bro wtf is this, PA actually went lower than Pizza parties?

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    �� So true ��

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 02:35 PM PST

    Torn a new one by B4 Director in front of the whole team.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 03:41 AM PST

    Had a team call this morning. Before the chat even started the director on my engagement started ripping into me (a second year junior audit staff) calling my work paper an absolute disgrace.

    Got to say, these places of work are really good at keeping staff morale up

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    Me laughing at busy season memes in uni vs when I actually will start busy season after a few years

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 06:08 AM PST

    Footage of audit manager seeing senior's resignation email during busy season

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 06:15 AM PST

    Let the crying begin

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 06:25 PM PST

    Just had one of those days. Spent 2 hours doing something my manager figured out in 3 mins. But she was ignoring my cries for help for that long. Then missed an email and got ripped a new one for that (never mind that I got 75+ today). I've been fired twice before and it just feels like it'll be happening again. Will this ever get easier 😭

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    An Honest Question about Quitting and The Great Resignation

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 05:59 AM PST

    There is a lot of talk about accounting teams being short-staffed and the expectations being unreasonable. A solution that is commonly suggested is resigning and looking for a job somewhere else - probably for higher pay, or the hope and prayer that the new company has their shit together.

    My question is this: if the problem you have is working on a team that is short-staffed and cannot handle the workload, isn't this new role just going to be the same? On top of being in yet another team that is strained, you are now new and have to learn every single nuance all over again. If anything, the latter sounds much worse than the former.

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    So.. I’ve been eating hrs.

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 02:31 PM PST

    You can call me stupid or dumb or whatever but I've been eating hrs for the last couple months. I'm a new A1 and thought I'd get in trouble or give managers bad impression if i charge more than budget. I also thought going over budget would mean they will charge clients those additional hrs than what they were originally quoted, And that would get me in trouble.

    Just realized that I shouldn't have been doing this.

    So my question is.. Will they know if i enter additional hrs today on clients I short-entered a month ago? Or Should i foget about it and move on? Im worried if i enter those additional hrs now they might think I'm lying. (Which I am not)

    Thanks 🙏

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    This looks how busy season feels

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 02:15 PM PST

    As a partner, how can you expect everyone else to work the same hours you do?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 04:55 AM PST

    Honest question here. I'm no newb, been in PA for over 10 years. Currently at a small 15 person firm. Recently had it out with a partner about the hours expected of staff/seniors. Partner regularly announces how he works 20 hour days, gets no sleep, is answering emails at 4am, etc etc and says the "team" needs to step up because he's dying trying to keep everything moving. I believe that is his problem, either he needs to hire more help or get a grip on his own work/life balance.

    I was a staff/senior and did my time, but things weren't as bad even a decade ago because we didn't have constant messaging/WFH was more challenging so it wasn't as 24/7 as this industry has become.

    How can a partner, who is making bank, expect his "team" to work at his unreasonable level when they are comped average (at best). Are partners so out of touch that they really believe it's OK to expect staff to be on call 24/7 for all their emergencies? Or are staff too entitled to think they don't have to pay their dues. (Don't be mean with your comments, I'm a huge advocate for work life balance and that's why I'm having this ongoing argument.)

    TLDR: Partners SHOULD be working the most hours because they reap the biggest benefits. Staff should not be made to feel bad for not working the same crazy hours the partners do.

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    I found my first one in the wild! Haha

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 06:44 AM PST

    Too all the people jumping ship for higher salaries, is your salary growth lower YoY

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 05:02 AM PST

    Getting work done to quickly??

    Posted: 21 Jan 2022 07:33 PM PST

    So I'm a new A1 in big4. I catch on to things quickly and am an efficient worker when I want to be. I have noticed that I am getting work done pretty fast and being left with nothing to do beside trainings (disgusting). It has even gotten to the point that my senior has commented on how fast I am getting stuff done. If I make an error it's very minor and the senior normally pushes it through and let's me know what it was. But my point is that I am getting things down in 1 hour for a job that's supposed to take 4, so should I charge 1 or 4? I feel like I am screwing myself with utilization by being efficient.

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    Financial Reporting

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 04:18 AM PST

    I've had a couple roles in financial reporting and they seem to be too breezy, almost to the point where I might not be getting the experience I need.

    I'm sort of not doing much until the quarter and year ends. When that time comes, I just roll the files and update numbers and copy and paste new paragraphs from other filers. Anyone else experiencing the same? What am I missing?

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    Pros and cons list about industry vs big4. What are yours?

    Posted: 22 Jan 2022 06:43 AM PST

    To preface this, I'm an A2 at B4 and a lot of my friends are looking to jump, but I genuinely have no idea what I want to do (as I'm sure many don't). So here's my list of leaving/staying:

    Pros of leaving/cons of staying: - better work life balance (generally) - higher salary bump initially (however could have diminishing returns)

    Pros of staying/cons of leaving: - can move around in different industries and different service lines to see what kind of role you like best - if you stay till partner, your salary could be higher than what you'd ever make in industry - growth (in role and salary) in industry could be stagnant if you are just waiting for the people above you to retire so you get a promotion - most people in big 4 are at your age level with similar lifestyles, whereas industry can be vastly different and a bit harder to make friends - if you leave early with no idea of what you want to do, you could be job hopping for years just trying to find the role you actually like

    That's it. Obviously it's skewed to one side since i haven't experienced industry, so feel free to add to either side

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