Company: EY
Date: 2020-05-10
Overall rating: 2/5
Employment status: former
Experience level: Junior

The worst managers stayed on
Pros: I have met one of the best colleagues here in EY - no doubt. 
Good exposure
Cons: Here I am going to tell you of one of the most unethical managers I have worked with. [S]o [F]reaking [S]ad 

I have worked with Supervisors who are condescending, gossipy, do nothing but shout at their staff all the time, but they are nothing compared to this. 

It’s no secret that some managers just do not care about managing their engagements, ensuring that they have booked a team for the audit. It’s also unsurprising that larger engagements of listed co take priority. However, this manager who chose not to book a team in the audit period despite reminders from the Senior ended up telling the client, that it was because the Senior had family emergency (ie family member who passed away) that’s why the audit was unable to begin on time. Yes that Senior was me. My family emergency did not occur during the period the audit should have been done. And I certainly did not know that I was so invaluable in the company that my manager has to use my name to tell the client behind my back in order to mask his own decision for not booking a team. I was working 3 days after my family member has passed away, and I was working for another manager that had booked me. That audit engagement was delayed for 6 months because the manager could not care less about a company that is not listed and renowned for dragging the audit. But I was the scapegoat. 

The client, whom I had a good working relationship with, was the one who told on the manager and told me these untrue things that the manager said. 

I resigned the next day. 
I did not mention the real reason because clearly, this man has no ethics. 

This manager later tried to convince me to stay. 
How did he do that?
He told me that my referral would be affected if I choose to leave because I did not help him to finish his engagement. It was already after the typical peak period. What audacity to threaten me. 

I did not know that I have to be threatened for resigning in such a large reputable organization. He was also clearly stupid enough (not just unethical, but stupid) to threaten me because clearly I would not ask for his referral, would I? Had he used the soft approach, I might have stayed. But nah. 

After i insisted on leaving, he started spreading rumours about me and guess what, it reached my ears. He is either too gossipy or people around him don’t trust him. Or both. 

Clearly the lack of ethics in this person is seen. If you have zero lack of compassion for what happened in my family, it’s fine. Because work is work. But pls do not use my personal misfortune as an excuse to mask your failure to get your job done. How has my personal misfortune caused EY to delay audit for 6 months? Also, don’t pretend to be so compassionate in front of the client if at the back, you’re threatening your staff.