Over the last year I’ve noticed a lot of black people leaving the firm and I can’t help but think the political climate has something to do with it. Anyone else notice a similar trend in their office?

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There aren’t enough black people in my office to notice if this is an actual trend

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I used to work at PwC and unfortunately there is a biased when it comes to minority’s. There are some Caucasian people that don’t know how to interact with Black people or people with diverse backgrounds

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Well EY isn’t any better. I went to a women’s event and the lead partner of the region, also a woman, was at this event and made eye contact with me twice and I was sitting next to her. She barely wanted to talk to me and spoke with such enthusiasm to the other women that happened to be white.

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I can't speak of a similar trend in our office but can't help thinking that the political climate is pervasive and not limited to PA.

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@E2 yeah, I hear you I’m in the NY market so while there aren’t as many as most would like there are enough to notice a mass exodus

@EY1 how’s your experience at EY been - better/worse?

The number of blacks in accounting at my university I could count on one hand. They just didn't do accounting

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