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Picked up a couple of Mont Blanc belts. One in rose gold and one in silver buckle. All about your accessories being on point. Cufflinks, tie bar, belt, trainers, shoes, watch.

Most feminists actually have no personal experience of the things they bleat on about. Such as being disadvantaged in life but this is no different than black and other ethnic groups bleating on about being disadvantaged. People ultimately will ultimately draw for a card of some sorts either to justify their failings or to express how extra special they are for making it to their standing despite their 'disability'. Some, just some actually believe in this but they are so leftist in approach that no one takes them seriously. Genuine discrimination is horrible and something I hope my future daughters never experience. But in most cases it's people getting passionate over some case they heard of on Facebook or through a friend of a friend rather than some personal injustice.

Nope. Not really.

Never have truer words been spoken. Might just go for it. If it's shit, I'll bounce.

I have been given a referral for a group finance position by someone I used to work with. He reckons its a pretty solid lock to get me in (time will tell). I'm not really interested in what the company does and how they earn their bread but the money is good and if will give me the work life balance I have been craving. My concern about leaving audit is development. For all I hate about audit you develope skills and quickly. This can always be the job before the job I want .

How did this go from anti feminism to the history of disenfranchised and oppressed black men. Elements knowledge and ability to to dig out quotes is without question but your application is geared towards a Black victim complex. People need to chill with victim talk and needlessly drawing for race and victim arguments and debate the issues at hand directly without taking tangents.

Like hero said you can question the legality of the tests given these aren't in your contract. But as many others have said I would question how grown a woman you actually are if you are still so dependent on something most people grow out of after uni. It's just as bad as having an alcohol dependency.

I sympathise with the guy. You won't understand till you become a manager. hes probably getting fucked 10 times more than any of you man. Unless he is a c*nt ordinarily I would give him Bly and help him out. I've had to get my teams working weekends in the past. But because they respect me and I am on their team ordinarily I get the buy in.

Rah. Putting auditors at number 1 on the c*nt list. You do know we work incredible hard and the hate is normally because we are right and point out the general ineptitude of those in industry. I can categorically say I am smarter than any fucker I have met at my clients (bar one guy). That's for certain.

Clients don't care about your problems or how long you work. They make the demands and we deliver. When I am key to all these projects and the clients are demanding then the expectation is placed on me to deliver because there is no one else and the partners I work for therefore will rather I burn myself out and go nuts than disappoint the client. They never say that but it is the Reality. I either do it or watch my career suffer.

I'm a manager. And no I am not incompetent. I am rated very highly. Rated in the top 10% of my peer group. In client service your work hours and dictated by your portfolio of clients. If your clients are slow/shit at getting you what you need then your teams move on to other projects and youre left holding the baby. I'm working 4 projects at once, 2 of these are like that. I don't work all nighters all the time, only of late. However the long term trend is that I work 65-70 hours average a week including weekends often. If more time is needed your partners are meant to back you to tell the clients this. Unfortunately more often than not the partners are playing politics and don't want to upset the pay heck by telling them we won't meet the original timeframe and it is their fault. I initially posed here because it's a complete fucking nonsense that I cremated my mum 1.5weeks ago (spread her ashes on Saturday) and half the time since then I have had to work like a dog.

I will probably jack it in. 2 parents dead from heart conditions. Life is too short. I am just mindful of what income level I need to be to move house to where I would want to raise kids. What if my wofe wants time off work. Can I field that costs of a family alone? All things I try to plan for and consider. Money isn't everything though so seriously now considering fucking off. It's been a 3rd all nighter completed in 6 days. Spirit getting crushed.

I've be back at work 4 days and pulled two all nighters now. This cannot be life!

yh lol @ working for 69k with the possibilty of 100k in a few years thats very funny indeed and what may not be interesting to you - may be interesting to someone else do you actually know what audit people at KPMG do? Nobody finds that interestingIt's crap at the junior end but the more senior you become the more interesting it is. More relationship management dealing with CFO's and FDs. Complicated technical matters. I see the benefit for the CV having been involved in one of the largest corporate divestments in uk history and other projects. Travel including New York, Tokyo and Toronto. But yes... I don't enjoy the job simply because of the hours and impact on the lifestyle.

Client service isn't like that. They don't give a shit about your problems. They are paying for something and want it to their timeline. I only went back that soon to prevent the snowball of crap building up. I didn't expect that this would turn in urgent turnaround.

It's the culture. Every gets fucked over at some point in heir careers in audit so people don't mind fucking someone else over because they have "paid their dues". It's a fundamentally interesting job. The hours are peek. Every either stays to try and make partner or leave at the right time. So you just bear it. If I leave at Snr manager I can take an external appointment for £100k plus bonus. If I leave now I can get £65k but the pay increases will slow down as will the development. I'm playing the long game because I know this life ain't for me. the question is whether I can hack 2-3 more years to leave at the "right time"

I asked for more time. Hindu funerals are long. So many different things to do. I got told I can take annual leave or unpaid leave. Considering most weeks I work double my contracted hours it's a par. I just did it craftily, spoke to senior managers I work with and said you know I work hard and projects would haven't been completed with out me so give me a couple of days to charge without doing any work. They know to keep me happy. I haven't got enough holiday days left so I just changed the annual leave element to chargeable time.

Firm only allow 2 days compassionate leave. I use 3 days of annual leave and 2 compassionate. In between the death and the funeral. Has me vexed right now. I don't mind working right now but my contracted hours only.

So my mums funeral was Monday. I went back to work yesterday. Today I am already getting fucked in the arse and will probably be doing an all nighter. Question: should I go HR with this shit? It's not morally right, right?

I didn't go to a grammar school but I turned it fine. Then again I am extraordinary.

big nips If she smokes (despite me being a smoker, I see it as a man habit). If she drinks to much or too often If she bites her nails Leg and underarm stubble - I don't care if she has to shave everyday. There must be smoothness If a woman touches my face shortly after I have shaved If she sounds like an idiot If she is an idiot If she earns more money than me If she talks about how her sister is her best friend and yaps on about how close they are. Crooked fanny Fanny hair

Yeah. I'm at big 4. Its a madness sometimes but I would never top myself over work. That's stupid. Would rather get a new job. Being the most logical step. The difficulty with me is that I always want to develop and up the skill set . Most finance industry jobs aren't interesting and only once with all the clients I have worked with have I ever thought to myself "that guy is pretty good". I live in hope that I will find a role I really want (where they want me back).

My job is a proper rat race. A very promotional structure. It means that you are often competing with your buddies. The people you joined with. I'm just disillusioned with client service. They are often d*cks and their demands are unreasonable and you work round the clock to make it happen because well.... That's the name of the game. Primarily because of work stress and the hours in which I eat (late at night) I have gained 15kg in the past year. Losing 2 parents to heart related conditions is giving me a wake up call that either I should just relax at not let work stress me to this level or find another job. Doing the former is difficult if you take any pride in your work and the deliverable.

I don't quite get the constant talk of reparations. Don't get me wrong, it would be morally just for an apologetic nation to offer this but in reality it won't happen. All the Asian races have moved on from the impact of colonialism. The mentality that you are owed something for the suffering of your forefathers will keep you down. Just keep it moving and excel for your own betterment.

You should be proud of where you originate from. I have a friend that I grew up with from Shri Lanka him and his brothers had some deep issues about the color of their skin they wished they were white and felt that they didn't fit in. What's so great about being English anyway? lol I don't hate my racial heritage. That is part of me. But I don't identify myself as Sri Lankan. England is my home. Where I was born, educated and succeeded. I know enough about Sri Lanka to know myself being of the Tamil minority would have been held down by an oppressive and cruel government and military. England gave my parents a home and their son the chance to succeed. It's not about he English being great. It's about what you consider to be home. No doubt I have Sri Lankan elements of culture in me but England is mix of cultures and a nation that by and large accepts who and what I am. It's not perfect but it's my country.