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I somehow made it through your novel, and I agree with you 100%. A senior staff shouldn’t have been given that much oversight of you and your work. A manager, director or partner would generally be happy to help you out in this type of situation.
I'm definitely a yapper; you can ask anyone I know and they'd agree on that. So genuinely thanks for reading the whole thing. My experience in most cases has been exactly as you put it
Yeah the person you worked for was/is crazy
and this should have been raised before the latter instances
I think I was just too inexperienced and figured in the grand scheme of things nobody would care in the big corporate setting and would tell me "just adapt to how things are done"
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Okay tbf you're from Deloitte, so I'd imagine worse happens there
I think you handled yourself appropriately and your outrage is justified. This person will get humbled sooner rather than later and clearly can’t manage down correctly. Wish you the best but try to stay away from this person if you can
Appreciate it. I did my best to avoid her while I was still there, neither of us work at the same company anymore so unless I bump into her in a weird twist of fate I should be safe
Unsure if I made the right choice but I said I wasn't comfortable sharing their names out of respect for them. This may have ticked her off.
Second instance was she wanted to know when I came into work even when I wasn't working on her project (when I wasn't working with her I had a 2.5+ hour commute to go to NYC). Not sure why she needed to know this and it felt like some weird possessive gf stuff that I felt very uncomfortable about. My other senior might sometimes waltz in an hour late saying "sorry, cat needed attention" but if anything were to happen causing me to be even 10 minutes late I'd start getting phone calls from other senior like she's worried something happened to me.
Third instance was when she was telling me an assignment (also during busy season) and I mentioned I had to step away a couple times since I was WFH that week but sure thing. She proceeds to ask why I need to step away from the computer (not sarcastically). So I don't even bother with a joke and ask her "do you mean aside from eating, using the bathroom, taking my dog out, and making sure my eyes aren't glued to the laptop for over 10 hours?" And she suddenly clammed up. But the FOURTH instance was insane. I'm working on another project late night and get an email at 9-10pm from her saying "complete this WP with this support" so I told her I'm on another job rn and will try to look at it today. She says okay. At 11pm I figure I'll look at the support for an hour when I get home and do just that, concluding it isn't enough and that I need either assistance to complete it or more support. And I leave notes explaining the issues. By then it's 2:30 and I need to sleep so that in 3 hours I can wake up and get ready for the nearly 3 hour commute. So I log in when I get into the office and later get an angry message saying the WP isn't complete. I ask her if she saw my note and she says yes but that she asked me to do it yesterday and I said I would do it. At this point I'm livid and start giving her the play by play timeline of when she sent it and what each of us said, saying if she wanted it done at 11pm I would have preferred she was explicitly clear about her expectations so I could tell her if it was feasible for it be done at that point in the day. I told her she sent me support late in the night when I wasn't scheduled on her job expecting me to prioritize her work at 11pm and because I wanted to do my part I stayed up till 2:30 seeing what I could do before deciding it's best not to bill time that was spent spinning wheels and instead get help the next day when everyone comes online. She again clammed up a little and started saying the works needs to get done. I hated her so much that when I saw her at the end of busy season celebration I tried to pretend I never saw her wave at me but then she walked up saying hi like we knew each other well. Also when I was in PT for my elbow the front desk person (very nice not rude at all) looked like her and I always felt a tinge of uncomfortableness because of my memories. Anyways, call me soft or defend her all you'd like. Just thought I'd share for the people who DO have similar experiences
I hope life takes its turns and you end up as her supervisor.