A Word About Commenting While Driving: Don’t

Posted on by Caleb Newquist

We've had many discussions about being responsible commenters on this site. And by responsible I mean, "be insightful or funny or, preferably both."  Most of you attempt to adhere to our guidelines and if you don't, Adrienne puts you in the corner. Pretty simple.

What we haven't discussed is responsibility about where you are making these comments. At work is fine. At home is fine. In the stall after lunch is fine. What we do not condone or appreciate is commenting while behaving recklessly or stupidly. Don't comment while walking down the street. Don't comment under ladders. Don't comment while operating heavy machinery. Some of you will no doubt ignore these common sense guidelines and we can't stop you. But know this – you may just find yourself in an unfortunate situation:
To whom it may concern,
 
I was posting to the [Big 4 firm] salary page, while I was driving, and accidently clicked post to my salary which included my real name.
 
Could you please change it to guest, it will not let me edit it.
We're feeling conflicted about this because on the one hand, we all make mistakes but on the other, we need to nip this in the bud. We can't get Mayor Bloomberg to weigh in on this so we thought best to take the lead from you – sorta like Joaquin Phoenix in Gladiator. Does this commenting while driving reader deserve to live or die, friends? Discuss.
 
Oh, and (s)he used their work email address to contact us. So there's that.
 

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What have we learned in the past year? Let’s take a quick look back.

Well, for starters an email at PwC Ireland got a little out of hand. Adrienne’s lack of a CPA has come up a few times. Ernst & Young got sued over that Lehman Brothers thing. KPMG got sued for being a boys club. Lots of partners at Deloitte are unhappy. We learned that Rothstein Kass is officially the coolest accounting firm. BDO pays snitches in caffeinated beverages. And we gave lots and lots and lots of career advice. (Jesus, that Dear Abby must have wanted to keel over.) There was also de-pantsing by an accounting professor and now an accounting student. That doesn’t cover everything, obviously – Grover Norquist and Susan Coffey obsessions, Adrienne tells EVERYONE what they’re doing wrong on Twitter, DWB’s scotch-fueled advice, etc.

UPDATE:
I shamefully forgot this:

It’s all been pretty fun and we have you, dear readers, to thank. We really appreciate every single one of you. Especially you, John Veihmeyer. If you don’t email us, Tweet us, FB us, we don’t hear about these funny, disturbing and sometimes pathetic stories. KEEP IT UP. Thanks again for your support!

But now that we’re 2, where do we go from here? We’ve already managed to go from crawling to toddling, learned a bunch of naughty words (okay, we knew those) and quit drooling on ourselves. Basically, as Grover is fond of saying, ONWARD!