We here at GC received the following email in our inboxes this Moanday morning:
Finally!!! See below 🙂
Direct Pay makes managing your expenses easier
Published: 05-Dec-11
With the implementation of Direct Pay, managing your business expenses just got simpler. Direct Pay is the process where Deloitte pays American Express directly, on your behalf, for your business expenses that have been imported into DTE.
There is no change to billing dates, the point rewards program, or the way you enter your expenses.
Direct Pay will begin for U.S. professionals with expense reports dated December 17 (U.S. India professionals are not part of Direct Pay at this time.)
The process is simple:
• Use your American Express corporate card for business expenses
• Import your expenses into DTE
• Deloitte pays American Express for the imported expenses
Professionals will still be responsible for paying American Express directly for any minor non-business corporate card charges, or any American Express business charges that are manually entered into DTE. To help you with this process, there is a new tool in DTE that reconciles your monthly American Express charges to what you have imported.
Sweet Baby Jesus, it doesn’t take much to excite the Green Dots these days, does it? It’s impossible for us to tell whether or not our contributor is a traveling worker bee or the executive assistant of some traveling Big Wig (Joey E!), but it doesn’t really matter because they are SUPER PSYCHED. Is this what it’s come to for us? Forget about holiday bonuses or even some free schwag; filing expense reports just got only slightly marginally sorta kinda maybe better. No word yet on a charge code for the strip joint, errrr “Big Ben’s Steakhouse.” Continue to pay those charges with your excess per diem.
So this got us thinking. What other kinds of techy improvements would improve your lives at work? Some off-the-cuffers:
1. Partner calls sent straight to voicemail.
2. Starbucks, delivered.*
3. The ability to work from home and have a work/life bal…oh wait. Nevermind.
Who is else in a dizzy tizzy about Big D’s technological advancement? Spill your joys below.
*Interns do not count.
They’re just making sure they start off the year with the “right” team.
On a serious note why would you let go of tax people in January? I get April, May, or June…but January? Did Deloitte lose a ton of business or did they just go on a hiring spree in India?
this is not tax or audit – the months that you state are not central to consulting services. Government mandates are shrinking in size and profitability metrics.
The tax layoffs aren’t tax?
DEI Promotion. Glass Ceiling is shattering on everyone beneath.
It’s cheaper to hire new accountants in India than in the United States, and the quality difference is negligible. People complain about affordability but when faced with the reality of purging domestic jobs, people get so incensed. Until we see more quality within the US, this trend will continue.
This was obviously a response from an East Indian!
Don’t let your privilege expose your xenophobia. Instead, just sip your Bud and watch some professional wrasslin’.
Truth hurts huh?
Stating the obvious about low quality Indian work is not, ahem, “xenophobia”.
It’s fact.
Obviously never dealt with indian accounts… generally substandard
Obviously you have never dealt with the American Gan Zers who have never found a deadline that they could meet.
Bruh. Is your Chinese made iPhone substandard? What about your Mexican made Toyota? Vietnamese made TV? It’s a global economy. You are really going to say that any accountant who is Indian is substandard? India has 350 billionaires, 3rd largest in the world. Go to any country in the world and you will find princes and paupers. The problem with the Big 4 and many US accounting firms is they get what they pay for and they don’t give two craps about their employees. Top Indian talent is no cheaper than US talent and these firms are hiring the absolute cheapest labor they can find or working people as hard as they can. Anyways, bruh. None of this matters. AI (Another Indian) will simply get replaced with AI or if AI is bullcrap then another country with lower labor costs. If you are a true manager you can work with anyone from any country. Is the problem the teacher or the student? Anyways, accountants gonna be accountants (cheap AF).
> and the quality difference is negligible.
Said nobody onshore ever who has had to eat hours fixing the offshore deliverable.
Gen Zers offer little to no quality at all. For those of us with brains, it’s economically prudent to hire from India than hire the domestic/entitled talent.
No NGO money coming in.
I think they are hiring from India at very low CTC from top colleges IIT’s.
They will give rigorous training, then work with low increment and few promotion, after few years reasons and last “Layoffs”.
Repeat hiring and so on…..
They are laying off people who is not on the PPMD track. No point of keeping heavy career SM if new talent is making to SM level.
Wow just wow
Welp this makes sense now, Deloitte just announced plans to hire 50K employees in India…when is India gonna wake up because their working conditions are the stuff of nightmares.
That’s offshoring … People in india work for 20% of the cost, don’t b*tch around for wanting to bring their pets to the office or needing a real purpose in their job and do the work 90% as good.