What are the little things your first years do that are harmless but you drive you nuts? Mine is my first year saves down the spreadsheets extremely zoomed out, so anytime I open his/her work to review, I have to zoom in on every worksheet tab.

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Thanks for the tip. Going to use this one on my seniors

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I don't tend to complain about that, because I find that everyone does that in some shape or form. It just depends on people's vision, and whether or not they are using monitors while they are working.

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send out separate meeting invites every week for a weekly status rather than 1 recurring invite

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Do they know of the recurring option? May be they are just clueless?

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Not spell checking Excel workbooks. Come on guys just hit the spell check button before you send it to me it’s not that hardddddd

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But it doesn’t have the red squiggly lines under the misspelled words

Not asking a full question and expecting me to know what they’re talking about 😂

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Lmao that same thing happened to me yesterday

ITT - insecure manager trying to bond and find common ground with other insecure managers on how first years associates are clueless

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PwC 1 smug but forgets he is doing the work of a senior but is getting paid the same as first year associates he likes to put on blast here

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Send me a an excel file for review but didn't bother to change the name from "Book 1"

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Oof

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Not look at PY

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Have you let them know that this bothers you? Maybe start with that before putting your associate on blast....

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I am actually the opposite. I like my stuff super zoomed out but my associate has poor vision so it’s super zoomed in and it annoys me. Obviously not his fault. Also naming conventions. Like if the description is too vague I don’t like it.

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I’ve noticed a lot of my staff doing that where they zoom out on spreadsheets. I think someone must have told them to do it at their training to check for review notes.

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What’s your guys age and experience? At what point would you say you felt like your work was better than your peers or newer incoming associates?

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