Leaving SJD Accountants

[northernladuk]

Dear Simon,

<some fluff!>

You are speaking to the wrong Simon. Mr Dolan sold the company back in Sept 2014.

SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams in £100 million acquisition :: Contractor UK

There is another Simon that posts on behalf of SJD nowadays. You can find him by trawling the members list.

[simondolan]

Dear Simon,
If you are still active on this thread, I'm not even sure where to start! Poor guidance, continuously pointed to completing the stupid spread sheet, but with no advice, every phone call was me having to recap my situation and our previous conversations - i then took to writing my own minutes and emailing it back to her after each call to help her with a short term memory and in the hope some of my questions around maternity and expenses would be answered.
It took months to get my final draft accounts back even though I did it as soon as possible in the hope of closing before going in labour! My phone calls had gone unanswered and when I tried to call her to ask questions, just silence no call back, I would call 3 to 4 times a day and she was "in a meeting" with no return call or email to even acknowledge my call just me calling again the next day.
Asked to speak to the manager - she refused to get in touch with me, even the poor guy on reception taking my calls was like "they haven't called you back". In the end I got ridiculous email from her account saying she was on leave and now I was dealing with "Stacey".

The impact to me - after speaking to another accounting firm for just 5 mins - I found out I was entitled to Maternity allowance, which painfully I can no longer claim as the cut off has passed. If I'd been advised earlier by your company having asked so many times I could have claimed this. Same with childcare vouchers for my eldest I'm told I could have bought childcare vouchers directly and treated as tax deductible. I ASKED THIS!

My first experience of contracting I was looking for help instead I was told to send back a crappy spreadsheet and was completely ignored.

So annoyed!

As mentioned, I'm afraid this is completely out of my hands as this firm hasn't been anything to do with me for over 3 years. Happy of course to help you with my new firm

[cojak]

You are speaking to the wrong Simon. Mr Dolan sold the company back in Sept 2014.

SJD Accountancy and Nixon Williams in £100 million acquisition :: Contractor UK

There is another Simon that posts on behalf of SJD nowadays. You can find him by trawling the members list.

Ah, well THAT's confusing!

[simondolan]

Ah, well THAT's confusing!

More than you think. That Simon doesn't work there anymore...

[northernladuk]

More than you think. That Simon doesn't work there anymore...

This guy?

Hi Simon C here - Chief Executive Officer of SJD. <snip>

Oh yeah. Derek Kelly now. Blimey. Poor fella's picked a right time to step in....

[Michael at BI Accountancy]

That Simon doesn't work there anymore...

Does anyone?

[eek]

For those not paying attention its remarkable how many posts there have recently been about both SJD and Nixon Williams.

Equally its remarkable how full my linkedin feed is of former SJD and Nixon William workers now looking for new jobs...

[Dan@OrangeGenie]

Does anyone?

Haha - all the good ones left ages ago!

[simondolan]

Haha - all the good ones left ages ago!

Not good form to knock the competition.

[Dan@OrangeGenie]

Not good form to knock the competition.

A previous mentor once told me that, should have remembered...