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Order room service instead of seamless when working from the hotel. The points will add to your base number and follow through all the multipliers (4x platinum, 3x SPG card, hotel-negotiated bonus). One dinner ends up being 2-700 points depending on how many different multipliers you have.
PwC 4 - while PwC may not ask for your folio, sometimes clients do. Let me know how it goes when you're on a nightmarish client that has their procurement team combing through each and every line of each and every receipt and folio and they find those drinks. "Charging for whatever you want within reason" is NOT our policy, and that is terrible advice.
Ohh I see what you’re saying. And guys I’m not like “how can I screw PwC” I’m looking for help in identifying the tricks and sort of best practices to optimize my personal rewards? I feel like people learn it over time but my first project.
OP you’ll learn over time to just not care and charge for whatever you want within reason obviously. Biggest thing at Pwc is to charge a ton of drinks at the hotel bar since it just rolls up to the total hotel bill and Pwc doesn’t ask for your folio. Also helps to have some buddies on the team to go out with and just go bar hopping splitting each of the tabs across everyone as “dinner”
M2 - I meant expensing little things like coffee and snacks, things that make the long hours more bearable and usually projects allow to be expensed but new hires generally question using the corporate card on. I would obviously never advise anyone to charge legit “anything”. My point was to enjoy what you can within firm policy and what the project allows since every engagement is different
Yea I mean I’m very already loose with dinner. Usually a good amount spent on dinner. I’m looking for any other ways to benefit from the firm. I want to make sure I’m at least using all the benefits we get, if that makes sense. Will start getting breakfast, that’ll be nice
P5 is crazy with some of the expenses s/he is abusing but the student loan thing is smart. My last semester of college I took out a loan I otherwise wouldn't have knowing that they would pay it. Then PwC screwed me and pushed back my start date 2 months, making me glad I took the loan since it meant I didn't deplete my savings that I then needed to live since they pushed my date back.
Also, I don't think p5 is pretending it's a student loan - it's verified when you enroll in the program
Why wouldn’t you abuse the policy? I get fucked everyday by PwC by eating hours and eating shit. And I know I can find a job easily if I wanted to even if I get let go
M2 are you so blinded by PwC that you actually have respect for the company? What a joke lol. We are all expendable. Never look out for anyone or anything except for yourself. That’s how I’ve managed to save 100k and I’m only 24.
I've worked here for 6 years and Ive never met anyone who is anywhere near as big a piece of shit as P5. Make no mistake, you are the exception, not the rule.
Ah, I'm speaking to someone with an overinflated ego because he's got a little bit of money in the bank and very little work experience. It all makes sense now.
Fishbowl - a forum where millennials battle older generations... 😝🤦🏻♂️😂
And PWC 5 is trolling
Really??? That’s incredible I love that. So if I’m at 54 by the time I fly home Thursday, I could technically take the day off? But not waste vacation?
I left Pwc a few months back for D S&O (don’t hate) but I was very much involved in doing the budgets and eFIT for the partner. Oddly enough it’s an eFIT flaw where if you budget 10 hours Monday through Thursday and 0 on Friday’s it lifts the margin slightly and makes the project look slightly more profitable for finance review. So on a long term project where we billed that I followed it. No work on Friday’s but billed my 40
OP - Breakfast and dinner are able to be expensed while traveling, but the amounts must be within PwC or client expense policies, depending on what you're traveling for and whether a client expense policy has been written into the MSA (if no client expense policy has been written in, follow PwC expense policy). Lunch is ALWAYS a personal expense. If you want a rental car, rent one -- but be prepared at some point for the client or partner (depending on whether you're on a T&M or fixed fee engagement) to ask your team why the hell you guys are expensing a bunch of rental cars each week to travel to and from the client site to the same hotel. You'd better have written approval for any deviation from the policies (e.g. team lunches, team coffee breaks, team happy hours, etc.) and any in-lieu of travel, because if you find yourself under audit, it becomes as easy as forwarding approval emails from the engagement partner. I've seen partners grant verbal approval for in-lieu of travel that was within policy, but when the client complained about the person not going home for the weekend and flying around on their dime, the partner made the person eat the cost of the flight. That particular partner is a shithead, and from the sound of it, so is your team. Don't be a shithead just because the rest of your team are shitheads.
Another pwc scandal incoming
Yes D3! There is no such a thing as a free lunch at pdubs! Only $10 breakfasts. 🤦🏻♂️🤷🏻♂️
Coffee and snacks are not reimbursable, unless you have the engagement partner's approval (and, if on a T&M project, the client's buy-in). That is why I said "breakfast and dinner are able to be expensed," and went on to mention "team coffee breaks" and the like being deviations from policy that will need to be cleared with the partner and/or client, depending on the contract terms.
AA1 - What the fuck are you eating for breakfast? In 6 years at the firm, I have been able to feed myself sufficiently (and I'm not a small guy) for $10 or less, even in expensive cities.
M2: what's the PwC expense policy amount for bfast and dinner? I looked but never got an answer for that.
D4, $15 and $60 were the amounts when I joined the firm. Honestly, I have not reviewed the PwC policy specifically in a few years, because my project MSA's always used the client's expense policies (which were sometime generous, and sometimes terrible... one such terrible client was $35 for dinner. The amounts themselves were workable but tight for the city, BUT the biggest rub was that procurement team on that client would short any expense amount that exceeded their policy guidelines, even if it was by $0.01 - seriously, I turned in a receipt once that was $35.01 for dinner and it was shorted to $35.00).