Congratulations, Public Accountants, the Reality of Your Miserable Career Made the Mainstream
This year will mark 15 long, boring, excruciating years I have spent circling the periphery of the accounting industry like a vulture waiting for a warm body to drop so I can get a nice carcass to gnaw on. Don’t get me wrong, I love it here. It’s not where I thought I’d end up […]
Deloitte Is Currently Recruiting Chads With Yee Yee Ass Haircuts
Imagine my surprise when innocently browsing Reddit while on the can the other night and stumbling across the r/justfuckmyshitup x Deloitte crossover I never knew I needed. Some highlights from the comments: Don’t get this haircut and definitely don’t work at Deloitte either. You ever heard of wlb? It’s obviously a large firm with many […]
Accountants of Reddit Take Instagrammer to Karma Court Over Meme Theft
Inb4 one of y’all thinks to comment “geez, Adrienne, slow news day?” let me remind you that we write about accounting; every day is a slow news day. So unless one of y’all plan to embezzle something, let it go, that comment doesn’t hurt me. In the last year or so, /r/accounting has made the […]
Unfounded Rumor of the Day: Porn Floating Around PwC’s Internal Instant Messaging Service
Have you ever trash talked in IM at work? Have you ever been paranoid enough about it that you asked Reddit if they have ever trash talked in IM and gotten in trouble for it? This guy did. "I feel like I have no filter when I get on sametime," he said. Surely you all […]
Here’s What Happens When You Ask Reddit What to “Where” in a Big 4 Office
Here's the question: This almost went the direction OP hoped it would, or rather it would have had suspenders not found their way into the question. Everything went downhill from there. Case in point, this joker: I came from a regional firm where we mostly wore business casual. I showed up to my first day […]
Some Guy Accidentally Asked the Accounting Subreddit For Dating Advice, and Then THIS Happened…
…the greatest thing to happen in our little corner of the Internet all day, really. In any other subreddit, this guy would have gotten hammered for the miscategorization. In /r/accounting, the crew rallies together to give the poor guy some advice that only accountants can give. Like this: Try one of these pickup lines: 10."You've […]
ESPN “Bitcoin Sign Guy” Raises Over $22k, Now Needs Tax Advice
Let no one deter you from flying a wacky sign, as this guy learned over the weekend: Here's the deal: Yesterday on ESPN's "College GameDay" (an ESPN college football show that's filmed at a different college campus each week) some student held the above sign that has both the Bitcoin logo and a QR code. […]
Marine Struggling With the Transition From Military Fist Fights To Big 4 Butt-Kissing
This guy on Reddit is a tad upset (not to mention a bit preoccupied with fellatio as it pertains to earning brownie points in public accounting): I hate the corporate accounting world, and small private firms suck too. I don't want to get too into depth. Just a long rant and hoping someone can offer […]