We knew it was only a matter of time before Jim Quigley rounded up enough interns to run his Twitter account for him and it seems that day has finally come. While we won’t openly admit to hoping he immediately engaged in common Twitter faux pi like tweeting in all caps or speaking to others as if they could hear him without using the all important @, we’ve thoroughly scanned his account and can barely find anything to bag on.
It seems, however, that he’s merely pimping out the World Economic Forum and is really, really excited about it. So excited, in fact, that it’s been all he’s tweeted about in the less than two weeks he’s been sharing with us in 140 characters or less.
What he isn’t tweeting is how much his trip to Davos to hob-nob with the global elite might cost him. We of the working class, ticking and tying set might feel he could just as easily put his finger on the pulse of the economy by sitting down with any number of Deloitte’s 170,000 employees since, last we checked, the economy was people, not rich guys (and gals, it’s the 21st Century) hanging out in Switzerland.
We won’t say we’re disappointed because our standards are really low to begin with but he could have, you know, toned it down a notch.
Just how much does a trip to Davos cost a snazzy Big 4 CEO? Ask Andrew Ross Sorkin: A basic level Davos excursion will run you $71,000 for membership to the organization and ticket alone (that doesn’t include hotels, helicopters or red carpets strewn ahead of you). The “Industry Associate” level, which would get JQ behind the velvet rope to hang with other hot accounting and finance rockstars, runs $156,000. And if, say, Quigs wants to bring a buddy the “Industry Partner” level could run him around $301,000.
Well wait, it’s not fair to say he’s only tweeting about WEF, he did also throw some tweets about chicks in there. You know, for diversity’s sake.
Hey, it beats over-hashtagging I guess.
Earlier:
Deloitte Global CEO Jim Quigley Is Tweeting
A repository for shitty memes. Come on GC, you’re better than that (although lately, based on current content, seems like you’re not….)
Been hearing that for 13 years, try some new material.
Doesn’t change the fact that its a true criticism. You’re trying to attract the younger reddit crowd and its silly. And 13 years you’ve been hearing this? How about listen to your user base and fix it? Doesn’t surprise me that I come here less and less.
So what specifically would you like to see? Because you’ve offered criticism but no hint of a solution other than saying we shouldn’t post memes. The numbers we see on the backend don’t reflect your personal opinion but hey, I’m certainly open to hearing it.
And yes, we’ve been hearing it for 13 years because no matter what we cover there will always be people who complain about it. That has very little to do with us and everything to do with the fact that you can’t please everyone all the time. Sure, we’ve posted some dumb shit over the years. That’s kinda the point. People don’t come here to read about lease accounting and practice management for midsize firms. It’s shitposting all the way down, my friend.
While I happen to agree with at least one thing about you, your name. Most of the “content” you’re probably referring to here that you enjoy, is a result of internal communication leaks. So go ahead and start leaking some emails to GC if it’s so important.
Gossip from Fishbowl doesn’t qualify as “internal communication leaks”. Nor does shitty memes.