RE: Management consultants are useless so they might as well work 4 hrs/day

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Dec 2, 2022
3:23:05pm

Skeptical Optimist Intervention Needed

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Skeptical Optimist

Previous username: workindev
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Last login: Apr 28, 2024
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Who wouldn't want to work for the big 4 after watching this?

txblue

12/2/22 10:11am

So much social interaction. Count me out.

cougfanblue

12/2/22 10:13am

You mean to tell us you don't want to pass the entire night with your coworkers?

txblue

12/2/22 10:16am

As a Big 4 intern I didn't join when they went to bars at night. I ended up

TailgateU

12/2/22 3:39pm

Unbelievable

provoprodigy

12/2/22 10:14am

It seems like a meme, because there are tons of videos like this.

benny1982

12/2/22 10:15am

RE: Who wouldn't want to work for the big 4 after watching this?

MogollonMtsCoug

12/2/22 10:16am

At first I thought this was satire.

doctorcoug

12/2/22 10:16am

I’m still wondering

Heath Squashwell

12/2/22 10:47am

I don't think so. I've done Big 4 and this sounds about right. I hated it.

TailgateU

12/2/22 3:39pm

Wait. . . it's not?

CougarScrub

12/3/22 10:23pm

I didn’t work at one of the Big 4 but I did work for 4 years at a really big consulting firm…

Tokolosh

12/2/22 10:19am

Me when I hear someone raving about coworkers and exclusively hanging out w/them

runitup590

12/2/22 10:20am

I hate her. I don't know if you could try to sound more fake. She probably kills puppies during her meetings.

Baron

12/2/22 10:21am

Thank you for letting your employer know you are unnecessary.

justAnotherCoug

12/2/22 10:22am

Okay I hated the video but it said she worked in the morning and then had meetings in the afternoon and focused

Baron

12/2/22 10:24am

She is, presumably, in Deloitte’s national office. If she is getting to the

Ozymandias

12/2/22 10:32am

This. I worked at E&Y, and if that is her workday, she's either lying or dying.

BYU-Ite

12/2/22 12:20pm

*EY

LaVellIfIKnow

12/2/22 12:21pm

My experience working in Big 4: woke up, worked, went to bed.

RH84025

12/2/22 10:23am

RE: My experience working in Big 4: woke up, worked, went to bed.

Living In Reality

12/2/22 12:29pm

Easily spent $200+ just Ubering

canuckchuck

12/2/22 10:24am

So 3-4 hours of meetings, 6-8 hours of eating, and 0 hours of working?

ldssdl

12/2/22 10:24am

Sign me up

CommodoreCoug

12/2/22 10:26am

She barely mentions the work, but i did hear "brainstorming" and I saw post its

txblue

12/2/22 10:28am

Who would want to pay their rates for anything after seeing that?

Gustav

12/2/22 10:25am

These videos are so stupid. No way this is a typical work day, especially right now.

KingDave

12/2/22 10:25am

It's a satirical video post

MarylandFan

12/2/22 10:30am

Lol. Leaving the office at 5:30 and checking out of work completely at that

Ozymandias

12/2/22 10:26am

Wow and that happens every day and it wasn't at all influenced by the company?

reppintheY14

12/2/22 10:26am

This can’t be real. Right? RIGHT???!!!!

Jeff Spicoli

12/2/22 10:31am

RE: Who wouldn't want to work for the big 4 after watching this?

El Careeb

12/2/22 10:31am

This has to be connected with the similar vid from the Twitter employee

DirtyWater

12/2/22 10:33am

This is the reality of working for a big 4 consulting firm:

Skeptical Optimist

12/2/22 10:34am

^^This. Oh, so this.

P-Widdy

12/2/22 10:59am

RE: This is the reality of working for a big 4 consulting firm:

squidmark

12/2/22 11:16am

I'm sooooo glad I wasn't good enough to be hired into public accounting.

WhyaskY?

12/2/22 9:51pm

Having worked for Deloitte, this must be an Opposite Day video

Indy Coug

12/2/22 10:38am

Deloitte peeps need to stop trying to make “Big 4 Consulting” a thing

holipuluki

12/2/22 10:40am

That was NOT my experience working for BCG... 16-18 hour workdays and for the

P-Widdy

12/2/22 10:59am

Well they aren’t Big 4 first off.

LaVellIfIKnow

12/2/22 12:18pm

BCG isn't a big 4 management consulting firm? Mckinsey/BCG/Bain, maybe Deloitte?

P-Widdy

12/2/22 12:47pm

Lol my bad, I read as BDO originally

LaVellIfIKnow

12/2/22 1:19pm

No, they aren't. Big 4 refers to EY, PWC, Deloitte, and KPMG. BCG is on a much

OlanchoCoug

12/2/22 1:29pm

Re-watch the video....it says big 4 management consulting firm...

P-Widdy

12/2/22 1:48pm

She literally walks into a Deloitte office in the video lol

TCuz

12/2/22 2:28pm

And Deloitte is #4 of the Big 4 consulting firms.

P-Widdy

12/2/22 2:33pm

McKinsey, BCG, and Bain are the top tier consulting firms. They are not part of

OlanchoCoug

12/2/22 3:39pm

"Big 4" applies to accounting. Consulting has a "Big 3" - MBB.

holipuluki

12/2/22 4:35pm

Big 4 is also a term in consulting. It refers to the same 4 firms.

OlanchoCoug

12/2/22 4:42pm

My wife worked for two of the Big 4 over a 7 year period

Loafer

12/2/22 11:24am

That's what we did at PwC. Nothing like an 8:00 pm dinner of take-out around a

TailgateU

12/2/22 3:42pm

Management consultants are useless so they might as well work 4 hrs/day

Odysseus

12/2/22 3:18pm

RE: Management consultants are useless so they might as well work 4 hrs/day

Skeptical Optimist

12/2/22 3:23pm

Thank you for reminding me that I've made some decent career decisions.

TailgateU

12/2/22 3:43pm

The single life sucks. That may appeal to some, but I'll pass.

IronPotato

12/3/22 3:41pm

She’s like 25 lol. I’m sure she has no desire for your life either.

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