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McKinsey & Company I am joining the McKinsey & Company Boston office in late July and searching for housing in the meantime. If I could get some insight on the ratio of days in the office vs work from home that would be super helpful!
If I need to come into the office regularly I will try to find a place close by.
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Holiday weekend or not it's a tax deadline today. Not everyone celebrates that holiday either, and we dont have any firm observed holiday surrounding Easter. Unless you set a boundary and communicated you planned to be offline they may have been expecting all team members to be on deck to help other team members get stuff out and meet client demands. Maybe your other team member got two projects back same time and could have done them both but it meant missing one of the two client deadlines. It's normal to spread work when that happens. In my eyes they're all my clients because we're one Crowe and one team. I'd want the help were I on that position and building goodwill will help me in the future.
Nah. If it was clearly communicated that was the expectation way before the weekend maybe but it doesn’t sound that way. Sounds like op got text in the weekend asking why not working. That’s wrong. I wouldn’t answer.
An example of why many “managers” don’t deserve that title lol.
Also if your company doesn’t pay for your cellphone, I’d see no reason to text someone on a holiday unless it was an absolute emergency. Sounds like crossing the line and potentially harassment
Haha I just can't with people calling everything harassment and trying to avoid work as much as they can these days. This is not harassment. I'm very much pro WLB, but we all have to work at times.
In their viewpoint they're texting you because it's "an emergency". If it were about your clients I'd say borderline justified depending on what boundaries you put up around Easter (for example I work in banking now, we just closed our books for the year so have a lot of auditor requests but not true bzyszn and we got a 3 day weekend because NYSE takes Good Fri, i told my team i actually attend maunday Thursday/Good Fri/Easter services and spend Easter w extended family vs just doing an egg hunt and being done, so unless it's an urgent audit request someone else will pick it up).
However it isn't your client so it can't be your emergency lol. The manager should text the other senior
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EY 4, you must suck at your job also pushing your work onto others last minute
Its time for people to stop thinking a paycheck entitles them to your entire life. It does not. Unless i agree to work dont look for me.
Yea I’d say that expectation was unreasonable if your work was done. Also it’s a religious holiday which you’re entitled to celebrate your faith. Frankly if you weren’t done by 4/15 that’s on the person not done. No reason to drag it through the weekend. Unreal. Planning. Lack of it doesn’t constitute an emergency for everyone else.
Unprofessional whether it’s a holiday or not. Send an email on Friday setting expectations and give people the opportunity to vocalize any conflicts.
The expectations email should be sent before Friday. Also it appears the OP’s work was done. If the other person is behind for whatever reason, they know it long before Friday. Putting their delinquency on someone else is 100% wrong. Not the OP’s problem. They could have reached out to scheduling to get extra resources.
They do not pay for my phone which is one of many reasons I am switching firms very soon. Debated handing in my notice to the manager who texted today 😂
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Happens all the time in public accounting. Quite annoying that if I don’t screw around in let’s say February and March and get stuff done to where my April leading up to the deadline is more manageable, I somehow get pulled onto other engagements where people didn’t do anything in those months when I was working. Literally happens so much. Some people are notorious for pushing things up to the deadline and then always “need help” getting things done.
This is accurate @CLA1
I can see it from both sides. Is it possible the other senior told the manager you are doing the work and that’s why they are checking in?
Not to say you did anything wrong, but there is a tax deadline on Monday, so could explain why the manager is being so “aggressive”.
Ultimately communication is key; whether you actually agreed to help or things just got shoved onto you, it’s helpful to be upfront about your schedule to manage expectations.
If they’d spend more time doing their own work, and less time tattling maybe it would have been done already.
Tell him or her that you are the Easter bunny and was busy putting eggs where his her Sun don’t shine….
Everyone doesn’t celebrate Easter or consider it a major event that requires no working all weekend. I don’t think it’s unreasonable with a tax deadline looming to set expectations of what your availability is for the weekend, especially if you are going to be taking the whole weekend off when others are working.
My office has people from a variety of religions. We have no problem accommodating those who celebrate different holidays. Our expectation is that you get your own work done and it is no problem if you don’t work on the weekend (if your work is done). Some managers work 12-14 hour days M-F. I don’t think it’s fair to have to have a waterfall of other peoples work that decided to slack off earlier in the year. My office is very small, so we don’t really have these problems because we are all accountable.
Can’t they just extend the returns and file later? Like sheesh. Not a big issue. Unless those tax returns are needed for some sort of debt agreement or something.
Just for clarity I was going to work on Sunday for missing Saturday. I just had some family come to visit on Saturday instead. I had checked in with everyone on Friday and was told all was good. Deadline was Monday. Said person who tattled on me for not being online did not even try to contact me, they went straight to the manager.
That manager sounds weak if they said “I was told to ask when you’d be online” They don’t take orders from seniors. That manager should have asked the senior if they reached out to you. then they should have told the senior to reach out to you and admonished them for not doing this first. That’s nonsense. Communication or lack of it can make or break an engagement
I would agree it was not your problem etc., but if you work in tax in a tax firm and it is tax deadline, this is part of it and you have to help your team and company be successful. If not for you, corporate accounting might be a better option where boundaries such as this are easier kept.