Workplace NIGHTMARES - The "BIG 4" are TOXIC

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  • @JoshuaFluke1
    @JoshuaFluke1  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    Clink my link galaxylamps.co/joshuafluke and get your galaxy 2.0 lamp today while it's still on sale!
    Toxic or not? No way bro.

    • @DudeSoWin
      @DudeSoWin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Not Toxic. Efficiently built to give hell to nihilistic posers who make themself a priority. Sick of that mimicry and Redditors entirely. If all you are is a Schedule jockey looking for stolen glory privilege then may that firing come with a prison sentence cherry on top.

    • @Starlightmagic
      @Starlightmagic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I will buy one soon when I have money. I’ve been looking for one.

    • @Emperor-Inker
      @Emperor-Inker 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      My cousin works for Pwc in the UK & from hear from both this video & her I'd say this sounds about right unfortunately

    • @rejectionistmanifesto8836
      @rejectionistmanifesto8836 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@Emperor-InkerBut the system wants more babies produced each hear to get cheaper and larger workslaves for the future and keep you in debt via marriage so you stay a good little dog who won't complain and take whatever they do to you at work.

    • @rejectionistmanifesto8836
      @rejectionistmanifesto8836 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@Emperor-InkerBut the system wants more babies produced for ever cheaper and larger future slaveWorkerLaborPool. Also get married for never ending debt so they can do whatver they want to you and the married worker takes it

  • @JayTheArtfulDodger
    @JayTheArtfulDodger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +677

    If you want me to work for 55 hours, you're gonna pay me for 55 hours. And pretending to work for even more than that will cost extra.

    • @Seattle-2017
      @Seattle-2017 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

      Yeah, I'm done with that. The salary/OT exempt thing is just legalized wage theft. The "It'll pay off with a bonus" never quite works out. The bonus, IF there is one at all, pays maybe 1/10 th of all the OT I put in. Since 2020, I've learned to work either work part-time on-demand or full time ONLY if they pay me for all overtime hours worked.

    • @Merlin_From_Shrek_3
      @Merlin_From_Shrek_3 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      But bro the ot is part of your salary

    • @Seattle-2017
      @Seattle-2017 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

      @@Merlin_From_Shrek_3 No it isn't. In the US, we have a 40 hour work week. Anything over 40 hours is overtime. You get paid for that ovetime unless you are salaried/OT exempt, which is a business term for "you work for free after 40 hours".

    • @KuptisOriginal
      @KuptisOriginal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      @@Seattle-2017Technically he is correct. In a salary position all hours worked, regular and overtime, are your pay. It's just you get paid the same whether you work 40 hours or 80 hours. It sucks and I'll avoid it if I can. There are perks for salaried positions but the question is do they outweigh having to work so many hours? My answer is no.

    • @marvin6016
      @marvin6016 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

      I am hourly in a union. One minute over its 84/hour

  • @wookiedude21
    @wookiedude21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +577

    PWC: people working constantly

    • @absolutelynonameslef
      @absolutelynonameslef 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It's a people-whoring company.

    • @cyc00000
      @cyc00000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      wanking more like it

    • @jjminor
      @jjminor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      Even at smaller CPA firms it seems like it’s like that. The one I worked at Would frequently let you know that you were expected to work over the weekends when you were not at the office. It was all because of time constraints, but it was all ridiculous. How can you be refreshed when you’re expected to work all the time?
      Luckily for me, I started my accounting career at 35 after I had a career change and at that point, I knew not to put up with BS. I did not work weekends whether they wanted me to or not. And I still did a good job and people wanted to work with me on their team.

    • @Masa6x
      @Masa6x 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How did you get treated after you did your required work only? Did they fire you or did you get by ok just doing your own work and leaving when your hours are over @@jjminor

    • @wookiedude21
      @wookiedude21 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      Yeah man, even from smaller assurance outfits, the requests are copious

  • @zalseon4746
    @zalseon4746 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +558

    This exact corporate culture is the universal norm in Japan and it has legit gotten in the way of people being able to date, have friends, vote intelligently, eat healthy, and reproduce.

    • @nettewilson5926
      @nettewilson5926 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And they shouldn’t reproduce if their children are going to have to live that kind of life.

    • @VictorianMaid99
      @VictorianMaid99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

      it was all planned that way

    • @Vid_Master
      @Vid_Master 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +94

      thats the result of people just "going with the flow" and "being agreeable" for a whole generation.

    • @BrianGivensYtube
      @BrianGivensYtube 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No wonder Japans population is literally declining. More people are dying than being born and a shocking amount are suicides.

    • @jimbojimbo6873
      @jimbojimbo6873 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

      You guys are deluded
      The reasons why people ended up that way is because Japan has made it a death sentence to not conform.

  • @rosanajaquez3274
    @rosanajaquez3274 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +522

    Industry accountant here. Big 4 is hella toxic. Always has been and always will be.

    • @coolyeh1017
      @coolyeh1017 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pointvector1951 The Big 4 are the biggest accounting/consulting/legal/finance companies in the world. They are Deloitte, EY, KPMG, and PwC, essentially every single famous, large company, or government has used their services at some point, be it Tesla, Amazon, Microsoft, Disney, Activison-Blizzard, NYT, Ford, GM, GE, Shell, Exxon, Perdue, HP, Pzifer, Siemens, Fischer, Wall Street, most governments or any other large company in the entertainment, energy, accounting, legal, gaming, news, automobile, management, finance, pharmaceutical, and medical industries. They are notoriously difficult to work for and have a terrible work culture but almost every college or university pushes students toward these companies because they are resume boosters, if you get into their program and last for two or so years you are effectively hirable to almost anywhere in the accounting/consulting world.
      It used to be the big five, six, and eight but consolidation has trimmed it to the big four. During the Big Five era, Arthur Andersen was complicit in the infamous Enron scandal of 2001 and had their assets divided into the big four companies.

    • @kevinsam9278
      @kevinsam9278 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pointvector1951 pwc, delloite, KPMG and other maybe EY

    • @Jules_Pew
      @Jules_Pew 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      And they never read last year's file so ask the same questions.

    • @Ash_18037
      @Ash_18037 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@pointvector1951 I believe they are the 4 largest accounting firms. Apart from obviously being toxic workplaces, every one of them has been under investigation in recent years for executive corruption and all sorts of shady BS.

    • @FreedomTalkMedia
      @FreedomTalkMedia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      @pointvector1951
      There was a clue in the comment you were replying to when it said, "industry accountant."
      "Big 4" is short for big 4 accounting firms.

  • @SuperStarTidus18
    @SuperStarTidus18 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +246

    Former PwC here. That place sucks. During my intro call with my Senior Manager he said to me “There is no reason why you should work past 7 PM” to which I replied “You mean 5 PM, right?”.
    Afterwards, he would constantly reach out to me at 4:55 PM or sometimes after 5 PM to give me work to do. After working there for three years, I called it quits. It was a horrible experience and I would not recommend it to anyone.

    • @SuperStarTidus18
      @SuperStarTidus18 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +28

      Adding on to my previous comment. PwC does something called “reinvestment” which just means you have a collateral duty to perform on top of your 40-hour commitment to the client. The amount of responsibility associated with this collateral duty can vary, but it is not uncommon to work around 5-10 hours a week on it which creates even more work for you. It is just nonsense.

    • @lunam7249
      @lunam7249 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      typical wall street brokerage....."dont bother comming in on sunday , if you didnt come in on saturday".....70-90 hr/week = standard😳😳😳

    • @deirdrekiely6187
      @deirdrekiely6187 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@lunam7249Learn to say NO.

    • @robbiem4624
      @robbiem4624 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      Is that why kids work there for a year to 3 years just so they get their foot in the door out of college then leave to do their own thing or work for a smaller firm or leave the accounting field?

    • @cryptobr236
      @cryptobr236 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@SuperStarTidus18 What is the monthly wage for working like a lunatic?

  • @Abood99222
    @Abood99222 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +142

    As a former employee I want to share my story, this is 100% real. I worked there for years and got promoted multiple times. I had a family situation that required me to ask for a leave, then when I came back I wanted to discuss quitting because my job was highly demanding. My boss talked me into staying part-time. So I started doing a job search to get out of that stress. I finally found a new job. Then HR immediately asked me for a private meeting because they said someone found out I have a new job and I can’t work PART TIME with them if I have another job!!😂 So I resigned same day and gave them my notice that I will leave in a couple of weeks, but they decided to exercise an option where they let me out a couple of days before bonuses were paid out so I was not paid my bonus. This is corporate scum at its finest. They don’t care about you. They don’t care about you at all, at all

    • @DL-fl5ul
      @DL-fl5ul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      I had a boss that worked in investment banking which is even worse than big 4 as it's 80 hour weeks with an all night with no sleep once a month. They treat you like shit on their shoes. He was so unbelievably toxic. He was so pompous and arrogant but in my opinion it was a front for being a coward. He would never give me feedback one on one. He told one of my coworkers feedback on me and that coworker would bring me in a room and tell me it. Coward. This guy is the type that sent me a 5 paragraph email saying how incorrect "Beginning an email with hi, hello, or hey is innapropriate, you can only use their first name in an intro". If I showed up 10 seconds after him or left 10 seconds before him, I'd get a 4 paragraph email. He made my female coworker balling cry 2 times. He gave another coworker a panic attack where he fell back in chair and hit his head on the ground. They called 911 for help. An ambulance showed up, rolled out a stretcher and in front of 50 of his coworkers unconcious, they strapped him on a stretcher and took him to the ER. He later said "Oh it's just because I'm unhealthy and have gotten fat recently." He was way too nice to call out this man.
      I ended up getting laid off. When he and HR brought me in a room and told me, I just didn't care. My last words to him were "Welp, I probably won't ever see you again... so see ya" and walked out. Like I have massive student loans and getting laid off with no income should be devestating, but I didn't care. When I last left the parking lot driving off, the song "I can see clearly now the rain is gone. I can see past obstacles in my way. It's gonna be a bright, bright, bright, sunny shiny day..." I was literally at top of my lungs yelling this song. It was cathartic. I ended up getting a new job, making 35% more in an awesome culture. I can't be grateful enough for him firing me. It was the best thing to ever happen to me. I've had dreams of finding out where he lives and rubbing dog shit on his windows and door handles. The most astonishing this of this all is that he had a wife. I couldn't get over that any woman on earth would ever in a billion years marry him even though he was rich.

    • @ArchTeryx00
      @ArchTeryx00 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Especially when you have another job lined up, that's a lesson: Never let them know you are leaving until shortly before you do, if not the same day. Collect your bonus and boogie. If you've a new job lined up, you don't need any of them as a reference anyway. Just boogie. They aren't going to give you the courtesy of working those extra two weeks. They'll just fire you. So don't give them the chance. That's the work world we live in - zero loyalty from them, so it should be zero loyalty from you.

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@DL-fl5ul Thanks for telling us about the toxicity of the Investment firms.

    • @VAshtray
      @VAshtray 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Shouldn't you be able to sue, based on the fact that the firing was based on learning you were working parallel to working part time for them?

    • @jasonthewatchmansson8873
      @jasonthewatchmansson8873 หลายเดือนก่อน

      If the other job was at an accounting firm, then there's a real issue. They have a right to expect that you aren't working for a competitor while you continue to work part time for them. There may also be issues with client confidentiality.

  • @gismogy
    @gismogy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +383

    Its so weird and painful to know that these kind of workplaces exists.

    • @nicholasrosen6342
      @nicholasrosen6342 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      As I've been thinking a lot lately, how could businesses really be reputable if they're abusive to their employees while having a "too big to fail" vibe.

    • @armandolimon7465
      @armandolimon7465 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      The military can be like this too. I have a couple decades of experience in the Army before retiring. It can been filled with people just sitting around at times waiting to be the last to leave. I had a supervisor, an officer, he wouldn't leave the office until 6 p.m. often. He wasn't doing anything. I got stuck leaving at 5 p.m. most days because of him, even if I got all my work done hours ago. I could easily be online at home than at work.

    • @VKEvilution
      @VKEvilution 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      I watched the video and thought the comments were translated from 1970's Japan for a second. I don't have a good reason why I thought that, but it clicked.

    • @vtheory7531
      @vtheory7531 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @ch-yq5ynThe bombshell is the Big 4 doesn’t pay as much as industry

    • @BlackPillVillain
      @BlackPillVillain 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@VKEvilutionthe reason because it is.

  • @daveblackman816
    @daveblackman816 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +246

    My friends worked at PWC and KPMG. These are just glorified resume booster companies. And they work you they really do own you. Making partner basically is more about how much you can brownnose.

    • @princessmarlena1359
      @princessmarlena1359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      “Making partner is basically more about how much you can brownnose.” You can say that again!

    • @gokicuy
      @gokicuy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

      huh, that kinda explains why these kind of companies have a lot of wahmen SM and partners, its just to show off and get that DEI money

    • @whyme7862
      @whyme7862 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      ​@@gokicuysome of yall truly are miserable

    • @gokicuy
      @gokicuy 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@whyme7862 thx 4 concern m8

    • @NickOloteo
      @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +14

      You have to be sadistic to make partner. That can take 15 years of working min 45-50 hours a week during normal times and 70-100 during busy season

  • @althunder4269
    @althunder4269 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +341

    I had a manager who wanted to have a one way window installed in their office so they could watch (spy on) the employees. Fortunately the higher up said no to that. She ended up getting sacked because everybody eventually quit on her. Hi NANCY.

    • @alejmc
      @alejmc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +35

      hahah 😂, that final flex by name and all 🤣

    • @Alphacat_
      @Alphacat_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +42

      Sadly, she will never read that comment as people like that will never watch videos like that.

    • @jamescpalmer
      @jamescpalmer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      Hi Nancy! XD

    • @liquidsnakex
      @liquidsnakex 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      Bye nancy! 👋

    • @roddeazevedo
      @roddeazevedo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

      "An officer should not work, looking over his men's shoulder, checking on every detail of what they are doing, and calling them to account at every furlong post. This maidenly attitude corrodes confidence and destroys initiative." - The Armed Forces Officer, Edition of 1950, p. 211

  • @powergi3996
    @powergi3996 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +109

    About 10 years ago I worked at PwC Montreal. Literally hated everybody there (Except one senior manager that later became partner, P.C.) Got fired after the first year because I was entering too many hours in my time sheet during busy season (the real worked hours) and the partners hated this because it lowered their jobs' net margins (a senior manager explained that to me after the fact). 2 years later in industry I was making more money then my manager (who worked 6 years to get there and works 3x more hours than me). Audit is a scam.

    • @senorfrog5605
      @senorfrog5605 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      "audit is a scam" for the public, the auditors, and any prospective accounting student

  • @douglasjarnagan3835
    @douglasjarnagan3835 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +125

    Most accounting students spend college hearing that you have to work Big 4 and pass the CPA to have a good career. This message is reinforced by job listings for senior positions that ask for Big 4 experience. For that reason many Big 4 associates put up with a lot.

    • @AdvocateOfJamaica
      @AdvocateOfJamaica 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      💯

    • @pelayopar
      @pelayopar 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Fuck those positions too then! Why do they want people that worked at big 4? They want drones!

    • @thuglifebear5256
      @thuglifebear5256 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

      Eh, if you make CPA you can just skip the Big 4, no? Who cares if you're a high powered clerk if you're already at certified level?

    • @apuapustaja1
      @apuapustaja1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@thuglifebear5256 employers care. Unless you are in private practice, you have to be lucky to get a good corporate accounting gig without big 4 on your resume.

    • @seosam652
      @seosam652 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      And those college students potentially take out six figures worth of student loan debt, so they feel they need to work at the Big 4 firm to get higher pay and pay off their student loans.

  • @Starlightmagic
    @Starlightmagic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +105

    As a former Big 4 consultant, this is all very true. Clocking in at 9:10am is acceptable, working 55 hrs is expected but I worked like 52-56 hrs. They gave me a ton of money but no time with family. If you have kids then that’s great because you have an excuse to miss meetings. If you don’t have optics going for you then you better socialize quickly there because they will get rid of you. If you don’t wear the correct outfit on camera, then you are seen as unprofessional and they will tell you. Also, your mandatory company trainings take a huge chuck of time that you don’t have because they overwork you. I have seen the dark side of Big4 and I will never go back. I turned down PwC because I heard about the quiet layoffs. Also, they didn’t like that I owned my own LLC so they told me to dissolve it. I was like nahhh, go f urself 😂

    • @hawkgurl1157
      @hawkgurl1157 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      Why would they care that you have an LLC?

    • @Candide1776
      @Candide1776 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Several reasons,@@hawkgurl1157, The first is that they feel like you'll be poaching their customers (which is ridiculous if anyone knows how the Big 4 get their clients) or that you're more concerned with your own welfare than the company (yes, they really expect a cult-like loyalty). Also they know how hard it is to own your I.P. if it's through an LLC. If I work for pwc for example and on my own time, I build the next great app that is worth billions, they're going to go back to that employment contract and point out that I signed away copyright and everything in my "new hire" orientation. If my LLC owns it, that's not me, and it's hard for them to make that claim. (Now, I would never sign away my copyright and I've turned down jobs from sizeable companies that tried this underhanded tactic, but many just sign everything thrown at them as part of the process).

    • @Starlightmagic
      @Starlightmagic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      @@hawkgurl1157it was a data LLC but they wanted me to deal with internal work so I wouldn’t be front facing with clients so it literally didn’t matter. They are just self centered

    • @DL-fl5ul
      @DL-fl5ul 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      My experience is they pay shit. I know an entry level accountant that was making $58k working 55 hour weeks. That's bad.

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@DL-fl5ulYes. Especially in this inflation infested economy.

  • @absolute3112
    @absolute3112 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +144

    I used to work for Accenture, literally NO ONE had anything nice to say about the place.
    Had one buddy who was LIED TO in interview about salary.
    Had several friends (over 20) who were lied to about job functions.
    During training, was given an assignment, I did it took me 16 hours, my 'cowrker' did, just JOSH'D his way thru the conversation.
    His reason for not doing it : Too much reading .
    I was put on performance plan because I REFUSED to do work related work OUTSIDE OF WORK.
    Accenture was most traumatic experience. It was horrible and I have so many more stories.

    • @juangraciaofficial
      @juangraciaofficial 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      The finance industry has the worst work cultures ever in my opinion. Accenture, KPMG, Deloitte, Boston consulting, Mckinsey. At least bankers get paid big money, consultants and accountants get paid average to be exploited and live in hotels with co-workers

    • @silajim
      @silajim 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      I interviewed for them a few years ago but I ended up removing myself from the process, the HR person and everyone I talked to was overly happy, like fake happy. And as I asked about the structure it came clear that it was a managers first company and the developers where the bottom of the barrel, since I would have something like 2-3 managers on my side and 5-6 levels on top of me. I just noped out of there

    • @se2664
      @se2664 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Yikes… yet these job seekers are obsessed to work at one because apparently it would look good on your resume

    • @Ayyy-lmao
      @Ayyy-lmao 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      They asked me for like an 8 hour interview with tests and assignments i told them to fuck themselves

    • @WutherWave-qc3ud
      @WutherWave-qc3ud 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      You got written up….. for not doing work related work. On your time off after clocking out!?!?

  • @ira2016
    @ira2016 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +40

    I once worked with colleagues from US, me being from EU, at an EU client site. I was 24 yo back then and I was asked by a 50+ male colleague from US why I was leaving at 5.30-6 pm, while the US manager was still there. I said - my work for the day is done and the working hours too. He told me that in US they have to come to work before the manager does and leave after he does. All the EU colleagues were coming at work around 9.30-10 am, US people were already there. EU workers were leaving at 5.30-6 pm, US workers were still there.
    At the end of the project the US manager badmouthed all the EU colleagues to they EU management for not doing their work. We had fabulous reviews from the client though, so we never heard of that US manager again and we got good appraisals at the end of the year. Was working at one of the biggest IT companies worldwide.
    Also, all the US colleagues were taking turns in buying lunch for the US manager, we never bothered. Huge gap in mentality.

    • @zerohero5753
      @zerohero5753 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'd argue that there's a bigger incentive to act that way in the US because the pay is much higher and taxes much lower.

    • @ira2016
      @ira2016 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

      @@zerohero5753 I'd also argue that even the taxes are higher, we have free education and healthcare in EU. I wouldn't say the payment is US is higher, so I don't see any incentive to kiss anyone's behind for something that is transactual (one works to be paid). Also, EU has laws for employment, while US lacks in this domain.

    • @marioarguello6989
      @marioarguello6989 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@ira2016 The fact you think you have "free education and healthcare" tells me all I need to know about your "accounting" skills.

    • @SafeEffective-ls2pl
      @SafeEffective-ls2pl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @ira2016 Nothing is free. You're an accountant. You know better

    • @ira2016
      @ira2016 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@marioarguello6989 I don't have to pay at least 100 USD to go to doctor for an initial consultation, nor thousands of dollars for a simple surgery. University is free (provided you have good grades at the entering exam) and decent quality, not starting 30k USD per year. My taxes per year are way way lower than 1 year of university + 1 basic consulation in US. So I'd say you need to learn a bit of math before telling others about their accounting skills.
      I'm not here to argue where is better, because each country has its ups and downs, but you wanting to "sound" smatter just proves my point, at least on the mentality side.

  • @CrashTestPilot
    @CrashTestPilot 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +162

    I got a "talking to" once about rolling in at 9:30am. Went something like,
    "You know, there's eyes and ears that see when you come in."
    My answer was, "yeah? Well where are they at 10pm? Where are they on the weekend?"

    • @princessmarlena1359
      @princessmarlena1359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

      “Good, they can see me flip ‘em off, and hear me tell them what the middle finger represents.”

    • @normandy2501
      @normandy2501 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

      My company lets you clock out early with PTO if you have it. One time, a manager, who was supposedly a lazy POS when he was on the floor, got on a guy's case for not immediately jumping on a job that there was plenty of time to do. The guy didn't appreciate his approach and just left early to spite him lol.

    • @mreese8764
      @mreese8764 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

      I know someone who was a junior professor. He made sure to be in the university just before his senior professor came in and leave just after the senior left. His senior was very happy that the junior worked so much more than him because he was there ALL the time.😂

    • @jins86
      @jins86 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @anon3746 Last time I've seen those in use was 15 years ago. I view them as a sign of distrust towards employees.

  • @krishutch3d
    @krishutch3d 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +223

    I advise people to add up the actual hours they work and calculate their actual hourly rate.
    I was in a big architectural firms for many years before it occurred to me to do the calculation. I found out I was getting paid less per hour than I would get for manual labour.

    • @nikmo7360
      @nikmo7360 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

      I seen the same thing from a lawyer that was working 60 hours a week and realized a person with a 2 year degree getting hourly wages would make more more money logging those kind of hours with decent overtime incentives.

    • @sdal5427
      @sdal5427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Also how much the experience is worth on your CV after. For some, the shit WLB is worth it for a few years to accelerate your career.

    • @MM-nu3zs
      @MM-nu3zs 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Took you years to occur to you do this calculation? Faaaaaack, any person w 2 neurons would put this calculation together

    • @afridgetoofar1818
      @afridgetoofar1818 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

      It took you _that_ long to run those numbers?

    • @davidpachecogarcia
      @davidpachecogarcia 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      The architecture industry is terrible when it comes to money overall. The culture of overworking for nothing is instilled in us since college. ☠️☠️☠️

  • @NickOloteo
    @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +52

    I did an internship at PwC. I didn’t accept a full time offer for 1 reason.
    The best career advice I’ve ever heard is to look at the people above you and see if they’re happy. No one was and the partner said he only did accounting because his dad told him too. I’m so glad I left.
    I’m in a great job now with perfect work/life balance.

    • @smpiano6605
      @smpiano6605 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      What field are you in? Is it still accounting or something else?

    • @NickOloteo
      @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@smpiano6605 nah, I started at amazon as a warehouse grunt and moved up to an admin position. I work M-F 8 hour shifts and work from home Monday and Friday. Amazon also lets you use your time off when and how you want. My manager approves all vacation time off.

    • @NickOloteo
      @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      And I can wear what I want. In public accounting you have to dress business casual. I could roll into work at amazon wearing the same pajamas I wore the day before when I worked from home haha

    • @bluemo7253
      @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@NickOloteo I’m in public at a top 10 firm and we can wear casual stuff guess it depends on office

    • @NickOloteo
      @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@bluemo7253 PwC was the least strict out of the big 4. They let you wear jeans haha

  • @luisalbertobauerlandivar5638
    @luisalbertobauerlandivar5638 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +107

    My friend worked at PWC a few years ago in Bolivia, he was paid 200 USD a month and worked 16 hours a day

    • @Mr.Youtube_Subscribed
      @Mr.Youtube_Subscribed 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

      I'm paid 415 work 40 hours a week
      As an UNARMED!!! bank guard
      In the US in 2024

    • @AssBlasster
      @AssBlasster 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He's just a slave at that point...I'd bet that actual slaves work less too

    • @alejmc
      @alejmc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      ⁠@@Mr.TH-cam_Subscribed can you confirm the typo there? $415 A WEEK is what I’m assuming (at least!) right?

    • @Mr.Youtube_Subscribed
      @Mr.Youtube_Subscribed 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      @@alejmc yup 415 a week
      I used to live off of 268 a month

    • @alejmc
      @alejmc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@Mr.TH-cam_Subscribed that's quite the minimalism life hack. Good job on that front.
      Myself I try to think often this: "every $ that I spend today is a $ that I'll have to work in the future. Debt compounds those hours of the future to boot"

  • @justinthen7631
    @justinthen7631 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +13

    i went to school with a lot of people who worked at big 4 after grad and none of them ever made partner, all of them burned out in 5 years or less. they called it the bamboo ceiling but in reality it's just the way the business is run. their whole game is to nab smart, hard-working, anxious, high-C people and squeeze every last drop of work out of them for as long as they can. then they replace them with the next crop of new grads. rinse repeat. it works because these companies offer something these new grads desperately need: decent pay right out of school for a company with a big brand name. if you're gonna do it, know the trade you're making and have a plan for when you've decided enough is enough.

  • @johnshellenberg1383
    @johnshellenberg1383 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +133

    I'd rather fall eyeball first on a fork than work any job like that...

    • @matiqog
      @matiqog 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Wow. That's deep! 😂😂 💯

    • @princessmarlena1359
      @princessmarlena1359 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      I’d rather work as a night guard at a pizzeria with homicidal animatronic characters terrorizing me. **plays “The Toreador March” on a music box**

  • @AdventurousDana
    @AdventurousDana 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    I appreciate so much how you articulate why these type of practices are so toxic. As an elder millennial when I entered the workforce I had to struggle through these environments while feeling like I was the only one that thought that it was horrific and unacceptable. So happy to see that people have finally woken up to the reality and are refusing to put up with it anymore!

  • @SkylarPixel
    @SkylarPixel 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    My shift is 8 to 5. I get an hour lunch. I take my 1 hour lunch every single day. I don't work past 5. I don't care about priorities or deadlines.

    • @jmcooney2000
      @jmcooney2000 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      how's minimum wage?

    • @SkylarPixel
      @SkylarPixel 7 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jmcooney2000 wouldn't know. I make $42/hr 🙃

    • @daddy_doug
      @daddy_doug 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Stress less ​@@jmcooney2000

    • @errussia2981
      @errussia2981 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      ​@@jmcooney2000 If he gets a 8 to 5 with an hour lunch. He probably makes salary and way above minimum wage. What are you talking about?

    • @jmcooney2000
      @jmcooney2000 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@errussia2981 I made that comment 3 months ago I can't remember

  • @VKJinja
    @VKJinja 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +75

    After one year with the company, my managers gave me the feedback that my work was excellent. One week later, yearly feedback put me in the bottomest tier, my coach told me it was nothing to worry about. One week later, was fired for "low performance" 🎉🎉🎉

    • @charliedallachie3539
      @charliedallachie3539 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

      That’s pretty brutal, when I was at Deloitte all first years were basically given a 3 (average rating) 2nd year and on it was open season though… I didn’t know how under paid I was until after I was laid off and picked up for something 30% more pay

    • @SuprousOxide
      @SuprousOxide 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Years of being told how important and valued I am, and how great our product is doing in the marketplace. Only to be told that no matter how well OUR team is doing, the overall company had a bad year, so no raise (or an insultingly small raise).
      Will everything we've done and our years of poor raises be recognized if the company ever has a good year? No, of course not.

    • @seosam652
      @seosam652 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Were you able to collect unemployment in that situation? Or did the company fight it because they said they didn't lay you off, rather they fired you for "low performance".

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      When you write words like "bottomest" it's hard to blame them.

  • @BasementBerean
    @BasementBerean 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +44

    That old, and very funny, musical called "How to Succeed in Business without Really Trying" is from a different era, but some of it's lessons still apply.

  • @Dunc
    @Dunc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +60

    Colleges try SO hard to push you into one of the big 4 audit firms. Protip: it's not worth working in that rat race, go work at another location. You will make more money with less time spent. All the auditors are a joke anyways that literally zero client likes.

    • @afridgetoofar1818
      @afridgetoofar1818 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      Go work for a private, local CPA out of college. You will learn so much more while also being in a decent work environment.

    • @SafeEffective-ls2pl
      @SafeEffective-ls2pl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I'm in tax and it's not as bad as audit. I did a year at big 4 as a manager. There are some toxic partners and directors, but the managers are not treated as badly as staff. I think things are slowly changing as many Gen Z refuse to work 80 hours

  • @sdal5427
    @sdal5427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +47

    Thing is, not many stay in the big 4 or IB for that long. You do your 2-3 yrs as a graduate then leverage the experience to land a better paid/more chill role.

    • @jp-fk5ke
      @jp-fk5ke 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Atleast with IB your making some good money. With big 4 all you have is the name and alot of choices on places to work (for now)

    • @KuptisOriginal
      @KuptisOriginal 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What is IB?

    • @bluemo7253
      @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@KuptisOriginal Investment banking

    • @aluisious
      @aluisious 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      3 years is nothing. I just did 3 years in a shithole company a few years ago, to end up at a much chiller company that paid better after.

  • @jimbojimbo6873
    @jimbojimbo6873 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +88

    I work at a Big 4 in consulting
    Literally every waking moment I want to cry

    • @bluemo7253
      @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I been wanting to change to b4 cause I’m at a top 10 firm but the name isn’t as good.

    • @jimbojimbo6873
      @jimbojimbo6873 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I didn’t know there was a top 10 list out there unless you are talking about auditting/tax?
      If so then why not, same shit different company. I’m sure the small businesses have the same shady ongoings too

    • @bluemo7253
      @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jimbojimbo6873 Well there’s big4 followed by the national firms (BDO, RSM, Grant Thronton, Baker Tilly, etc).

    • @bluemo7253
      @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jimbojimbo6873 After b4 there’s the nationals (BDO, RSM, Grant Thronton, Baker Tilly, etc).
      I’m in audit and would like to change to consulting or advisory, but seems difficult if I couldn’t get in and then I’d have to be a staff 1 again.

    • @qillerr_yt
      @qillerr_yt 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Stay strong. I left but big 4. I wish I had switched practices to a different advisory type, I'd have possibly ended up with better managers and projects.
      Took me 6 months to emotionally and intellectually recover after huge burnout. Lol.
      After time I lost emotions. My mind took a large toll and I wasn't able to think as fast as before or remember information. I lost my creativity. I've regressed in my verbal skills to high school level and in social skills as well. I realized I was terribly sad only after quitting and literally crying for 7 days when I visited my parents.
      I still don't know what went wrong.

  • @IndyGuy65
    @IndyGuy65 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +55

    Back when I worked for university career services I remember big 4 recruiting staff asking if they could stay after 5pm on Friday to process on-site interview offers. I informed them absolutely not as the University closes the student center at 5pm on Friday. Just as I expected push-back an armed campus police officer appeared in the doorway. Have a great weekend. And go get a life!

  • @chancepaladin
    @chancepaladin 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    that's actually a really good list of explaining how office optics work.
    So, if you're perceived as a lead, leave first, so everyone else will ACTUALLY LEAVE AT A REASONABLE HOUR.
    if you tell them, they won't. be a role model, leave early. :)
    you hit the nail on the head, its a lack of a merit-based system. its all optics.

  • @armandolimon7465
    @armandolimon7465 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +34

    I just applied for them knowing I was never going to get hired so I could claim that I'm looking for a job. Glad to know I never got an interview with them.

  • @rebeccaliew2247
    @rebeccaliew2247 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Former Deloitte employee - one of the big 4, rivaling PwC. In case people here don't know who are the Big 4 (Accounting) firms, they are: Deloitte, KPMG, PwC, Ernest & Young.
    Deloitte ironically have trophies/awards, bagging the Best Ethical Employer/Company of the Year (not joking!). But behind closed doors, my own ex-boss did every dirty trick to oust me out of the company, even though I have proved my KPI for the last 3 months was above 90%. Deloitte don't appreciate your hard work, they only keep those who are submissive + don't challenge bosses authority/challenge the status quo + can talk more sugar-coated "truths" bosses want to hear. Don't get hired by Deloitte, if you can. If you do get hired by Deloitte, some of you have to expect to not stay long there. However long you stay there, best find a way to maintain your humanity & sanity, while the workplace system or group(s) of people tempt to corrupt/break you down overtime.

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Thank you for telling us about this fact about Delloite, lots of professors in my college tell that getting in Big 4 accounting firms is the actual fulfillment of one's Life.

  • @hobgoblin4614
    @hobgoblin4614 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    Josh - You really need to get on Fish Bowl - Those people who work in Big 4 (Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PWC) and the major consulting firms like Bain, McKinsey, Accenture, EY Parthenon, etc. - THIS IS ALL THEY TALK ABOUT.
    You could probably put together a weekly segment of best (or worse) Fishbowl posts, do a weekly segment, and have material forever!

  • @ghostghost7067
    @ghostghost7067 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +22

    ex big 4 here. hated it. this video is just the tip of iceberg. the perks and career boost when I was young was well worth it in the short term

  • @robbied4766
    @robbied4766 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +32

    This has been the Big 4 for the last 30 years. In our program they said "Get your three years in and never go back." What an attitude to have.

    • @na27000
      @na27000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      3 years? That is a lot 😂

    • @robbied4766
      @robbied4766 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@na27000 I couldn't do it again. 🤣🤣 Three months is enough to tell you that they suck ass.

    • @SafeEffective-ls2pl
      @SafeEffective-ls2pl 5 หลายเดือนก่อน

      3 years gets you to senior associate with a little bit of supervisory experience
      5 years gets you to manager
      That's all you need

  • @gravekeeper4601
    @gravekeeper4601 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +20

    It was the big 5 before. I have worked at andersen consulting (now accenture), mind games are definitely the name of the game. My four years there were hell; imagine working 16 hrs a day, 7x a week for a measly overtime allowance (and that is not giving it due to the manager's use of company policy loopholes). This is in the Philippines delivery center alone. I have an interview with pwc now and I am thankful to have watched this video.

  • @AmbivalentMind
    @AmbivalentMind 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +23

    Man, this why I'm glad I work a blue collar job I got into with zero tuition debt and am alone by myself most of the time

    • @ickorling7328
      @ickorling7328 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Smart, but my advise is dont be too lonely. Your brain needs some socialbility.

    • @spectre3492
      @spectre3492 5 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      What is the job?

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@ickorling7328No. Not needed. Brain needs peace and good Food to stay healthy.

  • @badnewsBH
    @badnewsBH 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +118

    The amount of overtime I'd be working is exactly zero hours. You want me to work it? Pay for it.

    • @Nwakaego_
      @Nwakaego_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      Exactly!💯

    • @Seattle-2017
      @Seattle-2017 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

      In my profession (Architecture), they don't ask you to work overtime (as a salaried/OT exempt worker). They just place ridiculous deadlines on you that you have to meet, and the only way of meeting them is by working a lot of unpaid OT. All to make the boss look good. If you don't work the OT and don't meet the deadline, then it's a "meeting" in the bosses' office. They ask "what's the problem?", and "how can we help?". If you're honest with them about the deadline, they don't want to hear it, and imply that you work too slow. And they don't threaten your job, but you're first on the layoff list when the layoffs roll around.
      I basically had enough of this shit back in 2020, and vowed to never work full time salaried/OT exempt again. It has worked out so far with different freelance and sub-contracting gigs, and a part time job that's now full time but I get paid for all my overtime. I'm making almost double what I was prior to my 2020 layoff, and retirement has become a real possibilty.

    • @badnewsBH
      @badnewsBH 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@Seattle-2017 Yeah, I get it. Glad you could find a better way. 👍

    • @kha30s22
      @kha30s22 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In my profession (control engineer), they would keep all the meetings on overtime. God, they wouldn't even pay me for it. It's hell. But for the fact of the matter, I wouldn't go to half the meetings like that anyways 😅

    • @karthik007
      @karthik007 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      But then you won’t be promoted and rot in same position. Is that okay with you??

  • @kausalkraken5951
    @kausalkraken5951 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    As someone who does taxes and full charge bookkeeping here is some advice. If you work for someone else's company, do the bare min but learn. Do not get involved in corporate and take steps to complete your certs, and get a business up and running. If you own your own tax firm, I would go 100%. There is a major shortage of tax preparers. If you have to say over at a big four, do your own company work on the low and never say anything about it to anyone (get your CPA or EA). Stay one year then leave. TLDR: Do not work unless you get paid.

    • @apuapustaja1
      @apuapustaja1 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      How do you get clients? What do you specifically pitch? I currently have some small business clients (basically corner shops and such) but I want to expand to small tier manufacturing businesses as there is more revenue in that.

    • @zerohero5753
      @zerohero5753 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@apuapustaja1 I got most of my big clients from the connections I made working for the big firms.

    • @playhooky
      @playhooky 6 หลายเดือนก่อน

      So do you have any employees or is it just you? Are there any online forums/networking resources that you can recommend?

  • @yamxela2034
    @yamxela2034 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Started my career in public for 2 years then went to industry. Learned more in my 1st year in industry working regular hours implementing a new ERP system than working all the hours I did in public for 2 years. Now as a corporate controller I don’t give a s*** if candidates I’m hiring were in public, way more concerned if the person actually cares enough to look into root causes and tries to understand WHAT they’re doing rather than going through the motions on HOW to do it. And most managers in the field I know think the exact same thing. Times are a changing, managers have wised up to the whole BS public accounting is top tier mentality.

  • @PavaniThota-zm6vx
    @PavaniThota-zm6vx 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    Recently mckinsey consultant in India commited suicide due to high work pressure. He was from IIT and IIM highly prestigious and competitive institutes

    • @se2664
      @se2664 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      That’s so sad 😢

  • @naswinger
    @naswinger 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +25

    even the hiring process is toxic with most consultant firms, not just the big 4. they don't even pay well for normal level employees.

  • @iheart3dprinting951
    @iheart3dprinting951 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    So many work environments are about optics. The more you move up the ladder it's more about saying the right thing, and being a yes man, while delivering nothing. No foresight or vision. I mentally checked out before my plant inevitably closed and was laid off. No regrets.

  • @hyong-qc3ss
    @hyong-qc3ss 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +39

    Haha r/accounting represent , thanks Josh for covering our sub lmaoooo

    • @alejmc
      @alejmc 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Yeah man, I think we could do a lot of damage to this nonsense if each one got each other’s backs… for example, if I knew someone in accounting I could totally blast it full volume in the forums, because myself I know I will never end up working these types of domains and definitely not the Big 4s.
      That friend could do the same for me in video games, these companies are so stingy and anti-accountability that them finding this very same comment could land me in trouble.

    • @Maxშემიწყალე
      @Maxშემიწყალე 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I hope he covers r/furrysinaccounting next! Updoot fellow redditor!

  • @hyper_visor
    @hyper_visor 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +33

    Modern office jobs are worse than sweatshops in the 1800s, they just aren't as physically exerting.

  • @internetperson9121
    @internetperson9121 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I worked for a regional firm for a year and encountered a lot of this. Mind games, competitiveness, people talking behind your back, people having mental breakdowns and sobbing at work and at the client. Too much insanity to describe. I quit after working for a lead who wanted me to lie and bend rules and bitched to management when I didn’t. Have a much more chill job now for same pay and working on starting my own firm in the evenings at my own pace. I don’t know why public accounting attracts psychos, but it definitely does.

  • @123tewh
    @123tewh 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Having worked at PwC I think a lot of this started when Tim Ryan took over as managing partner, he started making cuts and phrasing them as new "opportunities." I left shortly after he took over, his fake smile can't hide how bad a leader he truly is. I met some great people there and not everyone has the attitude of you need to work 55 hours a week and they did care about improving you as a professional, but there were also so true a-holes too. I work at a smaller firm now, where we do have to work long hours in busy season, but it's a much better culture.

  • @TheBlacktornado1000
    @TheBlacktornado1000 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    the tech corporate culture has gotten so out of hand that its starting to disrupt society, marriage and relationships even here in India. Not only do we have to put up with long work hours and a performance review cycle every 3 months but we also get lectured about woke non sense and feminism which has nothing to do with our work. Thinking of boycotting products from all big companies and supporting open source and other alternatives.

    • @Aryeh-o
      @Aryeh-o 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The woke nonsense will destroy india as it did to Japan, Korea, Detroit, NY and LA as well as other atlantic cities.
      don't ever give them an inch. (as the argentine president says)
      never trust a serious woke person. and always demand displays of non-wokeness from close friends.
      the biggest metric you look for is offending woke sentiments. even if the person believes in equality , feminism etc.

  • @robzombie5928
    @robzombie5928 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    Not leaving until your manager does is a South Korean thing in business and there self deletion rates are horrendous. It just leads to people staying doing nothing really but not leaving for the optics.

  • @timjarvis9078
    @timjarvis9078 7 วันที่ผ่านมา

    When working at a tech center and you’d arrive for your start shift but still had 10-15 mins until you started and a manager would say hey can you jump on now we’re swamped etc most people did myself included, but you were never compensated same with taking a call 5 mins before your scheduled shift was to end then you ended up with an insane customer with a more insane problem which now you’re stuck dealing with which holds you up from leaving for another 30-1hour and were never compensated which had happened to me often. It’s so true about the attitude you get for leaving when your shift is over people look at you like you should be staying longer when you’ve already been there for 8 plus hours. Plus I have no idea why you need to say good bye to anyone you’re all grown ass human beings you don’t need hugs and kisses to leave work. Once my shift was over I was out straight to my car and home I don’t know why people feel the need to hang about and roam around the office after hours.

  • @Grk149
    @Grk149 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I worked for one of them for a total of 11 years, in two countries. There was definitely a lot of work involved but I didn’t mind that as I signed up for a salaried position with no set time really. What bothered me was when my utilization was low (happens due to seasonality sometimes and the projects), I still had to sit and pretend that I was busy until 6-7, and you were made to feel bad if you weren’t present. That and the weekly transcon travel for projects took its toll on me. I now have such a great work life balance at my new job, can’t even think of my old job without getting goosebumps. Not that it’s not a good professional experience, but make sure you pull out before you burn out

  • @jd52wtf
    @jd52wtf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    The "orange press" is the perfect analogy.... Keep up the amazing content!

  • @garyworthington840
    @garyworthington840 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks!

  • @vulpeeze
    @vulpeeze 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +18

    Damn, thank you PWC for rejecting me

  • @jasonandkathleenbarker6306
    @jasonandkathleenbarker6306 7 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I worked at PwC 2004-2006 in assurance. For most of 2005 I was on a terrible client who sucked at bookkeeping and we had real trouble auditing them. I worked 8-10 M-F and then came home Friday night (it was 100 miles away so we were on site M-F) and I worked 9-5 Saturday. Then left at 6:00 Monday morning to get to the client site by 8:00.

  • @kaizer-777
    @kaizer-777 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I'm so thankful to be able to work from home and avoid most of the corporate nonsense. It also helps that I work for a pretty small company. There's still come cringy work culture stuff, but it's generally isolated a weekly meeting and the occasional "virtual happy hour" that's entirely optional.

  • @austinsager912
    @austinsager912 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    I love the old people who’ve been in the same dead end, entry level job for twenty to thirty years and get upset at new hires who value their own lives. These people are all over the service and hospitality industries.

  • @TurnerClassic
    @TurnerClassic 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    I spent 4 years at PwC. No lies detected. I remember pulling an all nighter in the office. Went home at 5am to take a shower. Went to bed and was woken up by my partner asking where I was ... I said I overslept and went back into the office 30 minutes later.
    Working until 7pm was the standard. It wasn't an issue when I was single and fresh out of college. Id never have that lifestyle now that im married with children

  • @ahmadbeylouny1245
    @ahmadbeylouny1245 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Man I can’t thank you enough your channel is a blessing

  • @imy0urpapa
    @imy0urpapa 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    My brother worked for one of the big 4, in NYC, and can confirm it was horrible.
    He had the flu once and they called him and chewed him out for not coming to work, even though he had a fever and was puking and everything.

  • @DayrusBPB
    @DayrusBPB 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    That's why I don't agree with installing apps on my personal devices and I rather they buy me a new device for that.

  • @nekomimi5471
    @nekomimi5471 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Thanks for all you do for us on your channel.

  • @Nightjar726
    @Nightjar726 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +48

    Dude, what people want to see is the REAL unemployment. I have so many co workers who are out of work after decades of experience and there is NOTHING out there.
    But they are trying to tell us unemployment is low.
    THAT would be a good video to see

    • @lexa_power
      @lexa_power 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      Yes. Agreed. I’m seeing the same.

    • @1439315
      @1439315 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      john williams shadow stat dot come; seriously and respectfully - veteran

    • @amicaaranearum
      @amicaaranearum 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      The ruling party always tries to downplay economic issues during an election year.

    • @RKNGL
      @RKNGL 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +10

      It is calculated based on people currently drawing unemployment. That’s it. The metric was changed to be this way so the government could call it all okay.

    • @DavidLLambertmobile
      @DavidLLambertmobile 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Florida 🏖 has 1 of the lowest weekly UC rates in the USA 🇺🇸. Around 48th/50. $275-week is max, NASA PhD? $275. Wal Mart deli worker? Stock products 🛒 ? $275. Disney & the huge hotel, tourist firms pushed to stop any UC 📂 $. Florida & DEO went after Covid19, PPP, PUA funds. They hassled me at length for $8000+ uhhh no. ⬇️

  • @Geryf
    @Geryf 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    When you’re not a doctor or engineer this is the stupid shit you gotta put up with. I’m glad I work on a tangible product, I don’t need to justify my work with my hours in office, I hope I’ll never have to deal with this stupid BS

  • @impliedvolatility845
    @impliedvolatility845 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Make sure that TPS report is on my desk Monday morning, 8am, sharp. Ummmk, have a good weekend.

  • @creosl
    @creosl 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Here, where I work in Norway, people show up around lunch and leave 2-3 hours later. Most work at home, some even bring their pcs when they travel abroad for months and work a couple of hours a day.

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Norway is a heaven for employees I believe it is a great place to live.

  • @ad6417
    @ad6417 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    When I worked at Koch a manager asked me if I was unhappy with my job because I never stayed late.

  • @Soaring_Penguin
    @Soaring_Penguin 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    In my last job I worked about 45-60 min overtime every day. And despite that, I was still the last person to arrive and the first person to leave EVERY day. After only 6 weeks I got fired. Main reason being that I "didn't spend enough time in the office" and therefore "wasn't serious enough" and "too immature to work for his company". Yes, he actually called me immature, three times no less. So happy to be out of there, working there was hell in general. I didn't even get a warning either, he just fired me out of nowhere one Monday morning. Came in to work just to go straight home again (and that was a long commute)

  • @nmkkannan1256
    @nmkkannan1256 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    2 years back I have chose to join big 4 due to excitement, imagine after rejecting better offers and didn't interview for counter offers. Since my interview till the exit, I felt terrible about the process, HRs, management of projects, etc. Everyone from my project left already within few months after spending a year.

  • @stanfordblack.156
    @stanfordblack.156 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Former public accounting (not big 4) and now in industry. It's the most toxic environment imaginable and senior management brags about how toxic they are. So glad I got out of that hell hole.

  • @lordblazer
    @lordblazer 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    I worked at Accenture Federal. I will honestly say the Federal side of the Big Four is not toxic. Mostly cuz as federal contractors they gotta follow federal labor laws or lose the contract. So that side of those businesses tend to be better managed. If you are ever asked to do overtime, atleast in my experience. they let you know a week in advance so you can make your arrangements. then it has to be approved by the Account Manager of the contract. I only experienced it once while working there, and they were doing everything to try to avoid having all of the teams on contract do OT. The commercial side of the company was basically everything in this video.. and a lot of us were glad we had our security clearances XD

  • @aubreynaarcher8916
    @aubreynaarcher8916 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Definitely have an internship at PwC starting very soon. I've heard about this culture, but apparently, it's a great resume booster.

  • @TobasscoJelly
    @TobasscoJelly 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

    Taking a role with the big 4 was a big mistake. Lots of really really clever people, but super corporate. Was relieved when I got out after a year.

  • @Candide1776
    @Candide1776 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Never work at a place with a stock ticker. Your job is always tied to that stock price and not your performance (and not even the optics bullshit). Stocks go down, layoffs happen. Not worth it.

  • @ludgerkres.1437
    @ludgerkres.1437 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    As a contractor, I am enjoying my morning shifts, then going home for a good nap, and making money for night shift, then I get to essentially take an extra day off if money is flowing in. Get pretty much a 4 day work schedule and live in a unicorn economy. Those afternoon naps can be anywhere between 2-4 hours.

  • @joefrisco
    @joefrisco 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Sharing rooms can lead to unintended consequences. Maybe someone arranges to "room" with someone and has motives that could lead to harassment or even assault?

  • @bluemo7253
    @bluemo7253 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +16

    It’s amazing that pwc was voted one of the top places to work.

    • @PSOpwnage
      @PSOpwnage 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      They pay 6 digits only benefit

    • @LeeHawkinsPhoto
      @LeeHawkinsPhoto 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      Those lists are created by the companies on the list to promote working for the companies on the list. They have to be. It’s gotta be a scam.

    • @racaulk
      @racaulk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I always take the "best places to work" lists with a grain of salt.

    • @LeeHawkinsPhoto
      @LeeHawkinsPhoto 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      @@racaulk I take them with a salt truck.

    • @XtremuZ
      @XtremuZ 4 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@LeeHawkinsPhoto actually if you see them there it means they have no intricate value whatsoever

  • @fae1magalokreas
    @fae1magalokreas 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +27

    PWC is a shithole. I unironically arrive and leave on time and the current senior who has been a diversity hire all his life and worked at the "big firms" has complained about me leaving on time and even asked the partners "Do you think HE (me) could do a better job than me?" to which one partner replied "Yes!". By the way PWC for past few years has been summoned to federal enquiries. I applied at PWC years ago and I am glad they didnt give me the job.

    • @Justchillin145
      @Justchillin145 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Haha good on you man! They sound like pieces of 💩

  • @Dream25_
    @Dream25_ 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Very strange, this reads more like Japanese/Korean Business culture than anything I've had experience with in the US.
    Baffles me that these are the same companies that do random team building and random extra activities that waste time for no reason, but also expect you to work more than 40 hours for free basically. I don't know what kind of work they even do here, but I don't think I've ever been busy enough to actually be working constantly 100% of the time I'm at work and not been able to get my work done in 40 hours.

  • @tonystanley5337
    @tonystanley5337 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My pet hate was "trust but verify", when someone you paid tells you a regulatory requirement and you don't like the answer, keep asking others including their boss (who know less than you) until you get the answer you want.

  • @TheGnomeChomskii
    @TheGnomeChomskii หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve worked in public account for 7 years and this is spot on brother

  • @sandyseibelhager7131
    @sandyseibelhager7131 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    My former place of employment was very toxic but not in the way you described here. Hard work was actually discouraged. The employees acted like they were in junior high, there was so much drama. And management treated EVERYONE as if they needed a babysitter. There was preferential treatment, bullying and all sorts of nonsense going on all the time. Very high stress and high turnover job.

  • @BINSNEWS
    @BINSNEWS 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    If U work for a company all U owe them is what was on the job description/app. U should never feel guilty. Way back I worked for a lot of big retail/sales companies. 1 time 1 of them called me & said I was on a list to cover for ppl. who could not work that day. I never consented to the list nor did I know re to it. 2 companies tried to pull this on me. I refused to go in, hung up the phone, & went out to dinner with my parents. Good video.

  • @snapdragon6084
    @snapdragon6084 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    What a great video. Began my career at Arthur Andersen in 1989 and worked there for three years to get my CPA license. This was back in the days when there was a Big 8. Quite frankly it was pretty miserable the entire time. Your video is pretty spot on.

  • @racaulk
    @racaulk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A managing partner at my first CPA firm out of college did what we called a "bed check" at the end of the week. Every Friday, at exactly 4:00pm, he would walk through the office checking to see who was still in the office working. He would make brief, awkward conversation with each person to make it look like he wasn't monitoring us, but dude wasn't fooling anyone. It was an unwritten rule in our office that you didn't leave on Friday before the bed check happens, just to maintain optics.

  • @genericscout5408
    @genericscout5408 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +31

    If the entry level salary was 200K it would be ok if they work you like a horse with high school games. But you make 40K and get treated like this? What's the point?

    • @sdal5427
      @sdal5427 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      The point for some is that you serve your couple of years and then can land a better role elsewhere. Also in Consulting there can be an unwritten expectation that you use your previous employer when possible to work for whichever company you work for. Eg if someone from BCG landed a position at Walmart, they'd be expected to use BCG as much as possible for things. Trade off for a good WLB job with a good salary

    • @kristiansand2480
      @kristiansand2480 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@sdal5427 "Eg if someone from BCG landed a position at Walmart, they'd be expected to use BCG as much as possible for things."
      Can you explain.

    • @LudwigVaanArthans
      @LudwigVaanArthans 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@sdal5427so bootlicking is a strategy for some

    • @NN-pe6ip
      @NN-pe6ip 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      In accounting, having big four on your resume is similar to having an ivy League degree, lots of job positions will have big four experience preferred directly in the job listings, I did my time and it was miserable, but I have to admit. Finding jobs and interviews afterwards was much easier because of it being on my resume.

    • @goodfortunetoyou
      @goodfortunetoyou 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I just want to point out that a single person cannot know whether it would have been easier if they did something else.
      To perform inference on causality, you need random assignment, multiple observations from two groups, and some type of treatment you can control. Otherwise, how do know it isn't latent variables like the person's work ethic and cultural conformance tendencies, rather than brand recognition?

  • @saulgoodman2018
    @saulgoodman2018 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +19

    Milton had such a wonderful job. They put him in the basement, away from everyone else. No one knows he is there. He can do whatever he wants all day. And still get paid for it.
    He really had it made.

    • @rhone733
      @rhone733 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Until they fixed the glitch. Though, I will say this: I worked as a federal civilian for the military for several years. There was so little work to do there that I had to use my time to learn and study, which was fine. However, eventually I needed more and quit. It didn't help that the military office and IT policies were getting worse.

  • @natedawg3765
    @natedawg3765 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    Lmao my two roommates are both in consulting, and one at PWC specifically. Late nights are the norm, rarely see them log off before ~6, sometimes I'll even see them working until 9, 10, or one time even 11pm.
    Meanwhile I'm in software so I hop off between 5-530 almost every day

  • @SystemaAlpha
    @SystemaAlpha 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I had a job offer at one of the big 4, but I turned them down since during the technical interviews I kept getting told they let employees use excess work hours towards a Friday off. In the last interview, the team manager acted like a slimmy asshole, and he let it slip that employees must prove they've earned their Friday off, even if they've more than 8 hours. I honestly was pissed since it felt I was being misled so much and that my time was wasted with all the interviews, but it prevented me from working there.

  • @knottheory79220
    @knottheory79220 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

    The problem with the Big 4 is they expect to pay you in experience and nothing else.

    • @ickorling7328
      @ickorling7328 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      So true. You can make them 10 million dollars and they wont even say you did it, they'll take full credit.

  • @tangoxraysierra
    @tangoxraysierra 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I spent 6 years early in my career working for the largest European services firm. It was great at first; traveling internationally every week! By the time I left, I was alcoholic and had a nervous breakdown.
    A good reason exists around why they bring in young people, who eventually will not put up with this garbage. The execs in this space are usually a variation of mental illness that hasn’t even been fully identified as of yet. One of my old school managers would pine on about the good old days of clocking people’s restroom breaks, and setting out egg McMuffins at his reports desks on Saturdays to see if they showed up that day.

  • @alexkwong3243
    @alexkwong3243 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    U r going to need to do a 10 part series.

  • @Max-jn5sp
    @Max-jn5sp 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Josh- busy season is when we actually have client work that we charge. For some people busy season is around 3 or 4 months of the year (for tax its around 3/15 and 9/15) the other 8 months, unless specified, we aren't utilized so we literally just log on and log off. The goal of the 55 hours during busy season is to have a Yearly 78%utilization rate with the 8 months we arent billing

    • @NickOloteo
      @NickOloteo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I had a buddy that said he worked a 100 hour week during busy season at EY and 60-70+ the other weeks. I think he said 45 during non busy season

  • @nicolasgragert8581
    @nicolasgragert8581 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    Big 4 is literally the impediment of the phrase “Golden handcuffs” I use to want to go into management consulting until I started seeing a lot deeper depth on how they actually treat them. A lot Ivy League entitled egotistic people that look at others as if they are inferior to them.
    Like cool you went to an Ivy League school that ran your pockets dry. Cool you want a cookie cuz people can do the same type of work if not BETTER than you on doing the same things you do through stuff you can find open source.

  • @ericlikestowander7510
    @ericlikestowander7510 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +11

    Most corporate offices work you to death. I suggest live a frugal and minimalist lifestyle so you are not affected by the workload and you can quit at anytime

    • @Fan-zx1lz
      @Fan-zx1lz 4 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It is best to live in a forest and do farming grow own food so no money is needed for living. That would be the best way to live.

  • @330_Crew
    @330_Crew 8 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    The income potential at partner is what keeps all this insanity going. For most tenured partners at big 4, $1M annual is total comp. With so much upside at stake, survival becomes Mad Max Thunder-dome. In addition keep in mind that with the exception of chargability and sales at higher levels, all performance is subjective. This means the incentive manage perception is critical for reviews.

  • @texasscience6580
    @texasscience6580 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I worked at Intel for 3 years as a process engineer. 10-12 hour days are normal, monday - Friday. usually also working another 2-4 hours on sunday, just to keep up with job responsibilities. the area i worked in used fear of layoffs to push people. i am glad i found another position in another company that treats its employees better.

  • @sw6155
    @sw6155 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    “Praise be” 🤣🤣🤣🤣
    You legit made me spit my coffee… Now I gotta go down and get changed! 😅😅🤣🤣🤣

  • @Tigers005
    @Tigers005 22 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Not just the big 4, but this is 95% of public accounting. Spent two years at a mid-sized firm and I hated my life. Partner was an idiot and caused me so much stress. So glad I’m out of there now

  • @Coastpsych_fi99
    @Coastpsych_fi99 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I almost did an accounting degree (was working in a related field) until I saw that graduate salaries were lower than my full-time salary without a degree, the hours were long, the work was tedious and accounting culture is brutal. There is a weird brainwashing that happens where people feel privileged to be accepted into Big 4 role despite being grossly underpaid and overworked in hopes of being a partner...crazy.