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    #11
    Originally posted by Scruff View Post
    Indeed, me too. Times have changed however, and the days of the Big Shout in County Halls are over.
    I left mid/late 2000's so for the sake of the poor body-shopped consultants I do hope it's changed a lot. Seeing consultants burn out in their mids 20's was not great.
    I am what I drink, and I'm a bitter man

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      #12
      I worked for one of the consultancies just below the UK big 4 in the early 2000s. Some really bright people there and most of my colleagues were fine, it's just the partners (who took most of the profit) who were total knobs. I moved to a much smaller consultancy and my career really took off after that, it was a much better culture and I got to do more interesting work working more closely with senior client staff.

      This guy's management style is going out the window in many organisations now and thank god too.

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        #13
        He later apologised, saying the comments did not reflect his beliefs.
        I think you'll find they do...
        "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
        - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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          #14
          They are Big 4 for a reason

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            #15
            And working remotely as a consultant is fecking hard work and tough mentally, and that's with a supportive spouse and no kids.

            God knows what it's like if you don't have one but do have the other.
            "I can put any old tat in my sig, put quotes around it and attribute to someone of whom I've heard, to make it sound true."
            - Voltaire/Benjamin Franklin/Anne Frank...

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              #16
              Originally posted by cojak View Post
              God knows what it's like if you don't have one but do have the other.
              It’s like a divorce...

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                #17
                Originally posted by Paralytic View Post

                Sounds like he had a fair point - bunch of snowflakes the lot of them!
                WHS - He was just too honest for his own good, in today's febrile moral climate.

                The lesson which other bosses learn from this when sacking moaning, recalcitrant employees is "Never complain, never explain".
                Work in the public sector? Read the IR35 FAQ here

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                  #18
                  Originally posted by AtW View Post
                  It’s like a divorce...
                  What would you know about that?

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                    #19
                    Video of KPMG boss telling well-paid staff they are 'lucky' | Daily Mail Online

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                      #20
                      Apart from the boss of KPMG needing to get a better internet connection, and for some reason thinking that unconscious bias does not exist, I can't see what the fuss is about.

                      I joked earlier about those that complained being snowflakes - now I think i was right.

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