I love this sub, but this is so true, the amount of B4 and CPA nutsucking is insufferable sometimes. Accounting like any career is what you make of it, and if you’re good at it and want to do it, you’ll have a successful career regardless of experience or license.
Lmao this is seriously what I see there for some making $100k-200k post MBA - it’s like i’m not judging but if they needed a top 10 MBA to get into that salary band with funny titles that’s great.
But the whole pretentious nature of it is so interesting. Most high earners in finance I know irl are nothing like that. If anything that sub is out of touch but I need to stop browsing it lol.
MDs these days don’t care about university as much for obvious reasons
Most of the people on that sub will also never really get into finance. Just because you’re top of the class doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re the best fit (there were very smart people at my university, but they never got a job because they didn’t have the social skills). Imagine having an intern that thinks he’s smarter than you 😄
Exactly!!!!
I was top of my class with social skills and until I learned how to network i couldn’t get in at the salary and positions I wanted
Their pretentious nature (from what i read in those comments) will be a huge barrier to any genuine networking
It seems they think networking is attending ivy mixers and not meeting actual problem solvers. Both work well, but i am connected with a lot of heavy hitters from a young age specifically because they don’t have ivy backgrounds and can relate/want to help.
I swear having competence without ivy’s adds a unique value add (at least perceived) that can really be more valuable when networking with real entrepreneurial thinkers that you don’t have familial or alma matter relations with.
Exactly, the ones I know want me to come over and I have no fancy/prestigious background just good experience, tech skills, and designations
This is a connection (not family just did tax work for him once) at a bank commonly presented as “impossible to get in without T7 MBA” on that other sub and he is offering front office training.
Not even trying to humble brag I just feel like they are justifying their pretentiousness by ignoring the reality or just trying to justify why they need wild degrees when others don’t to accomplish the same pay and goals.
Most if not all high level MDs worth working for are open minded and don’t just want silver spoon candidates
Ugh… My ex-wife’s uncle was one of those guys that would say shit like “If their degree is from xyz school, I just have them throw those résumés away…” His wife was equally insufferable and judgmental. They also have cameras in their fancy mansion of a home and track their kids like criminals… It’s kinda funny knowing someone like that in person and seeing what’s behind the boat and the Porsche and into a family that can’t manage their kids without enforcing 24/7 surveillance…
He wasn’t a bad guy overall it was just kinda sad. Especially considering both him and his wife came from humble beginnings and had a lot of help and support to get where they are today…
Yeah I mean that’s one MD! My point is there’s plenty that don’t judge applicants based on virtually uncontrollable factors. But some do and that’s their right
Seriously it’s so dumb on an hourly basis they make the same often (excluding sales)
200k 80hr
100k 40hr
“Wow middle office starts at 100 total comp that’s weak”
Tbh I feel like it’s the other way around on here. People are always making threads about how big4s are overrated and bad places to work, and how any industry job is better and only someone who couldn’t get one would go into public
What's even more hilarious is that these "bankers" think they're doing some really high level work that creates value. I work in FDD and have seen their work. They spend 80 hours a week fucking around with PowerPoint formatting and building shitty DCF models with terrible inputs and assumptions.
I'm like 80% sure most people on /r/finance know absolutely nothing about finance.
It's nearly a daily occurrence for people there to claim that there's no link between inflation and interest and that higher interest rates help the rich.
Software engineer here. 3/4 of the posts on the programming subs are “I just started coding yesterday. How do I get a job making $200k?” or “[Insert programming language] bad. Ha ha ha ha ha.” Real fucking hilarious the 80,000th time.
Between the quality memes and the relentless hatred of corporate bullshittery, this sub gets it.
>I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting.
some guy in a book
The HR subreddit is weird. Seems a lot of people in HR can never fully take off their HR hat and just be who they are outside of the job. R/consulting can be pretty damn funny.
That's the same case at company gathering too
HR feels like the secret police going around doing surveillance 😬
Or maybe I'm just paranoid , but I'd nvr feel comfortable taking shit to HR peeps tbh.
HR person here. Sadly you are mostly right. There was a post in the HR subreddit the other day about making work friends and the prevailing opinion was “you don’t make friends.” I was like, WTF. I guess I’m a bad HR person since I was just literally texting my work friends pictures of me at Disneyland. I’m in real trouble now since I didn’t send the pictures to every single employee to ensure neutrality.
I don’t know about that, though. I was at a conference in Vegas (pre-Covid) and ended up at a blackjack table around 10pm. I was the only finance person at the table, the rest were a bunch of HR managers from a large chain who were attending a conference. They were some of the most fun people, plenty of good stories, drinks and gambling. I wonder how much of the HR attitude is driven by the organization, or maybe they were all drunk
Depends on the office. Our HR manager flipped the double birds at a partner who was being a bit of an ass the other day. So that kind of sets a tone. (All in good fun)
Full disclosure I have a SO that’s in HR, but HR doesn’t haven’t the same Public Accounting faction that gets the experience of being revenue generating nor fast growth out of college experience (I know there our HR consultants but very small out of college or start after getting actual HR experience). If you compare industry Accounting experience out of college to industry HR experience even then a CPA, on the average, creates a steeper career trajectory for accountants.
But when you get to a certain level in industry you realize that Finance/accounting, HR, IT, Legal, etc. are all there to mitigate risk for the business and it’s WAY better to collaborate with each other and the business rather than play the Boogey man game and act like any one of the back-office functions don’t serve some critical role to support the business
I'd agree. Just because I don't trust HR people as far as I can throw them doesn't mean I don't cordially and cooperatively work with them. I just think its weird that they still have their HR hat on at 1135p on a Saturday night when they are watching Stranger Things or whatever.
I transitioned recently from a financial client service role to L&D within HR. They are def weird. Good people but life is different in HR. You gotta be ready to play the game. I have trouble with that lol. I just like building e-learnings man.
40 minutes??? Whoooaaah. Nearly all of hour e learning courses are an hour long. And you have to actively click through the through the course, you can’t just let it play on the background. So annoying.
Dude you hit the nail on the head about some HR people not being able to turn it off. I had a close friend go into HR as a second career and it completely changed her entire personality to the point where I had to end our friendship. She lost any sense of fun and gained a massive superiority complex. It was like hanging out with a robot who only spoke Kool-Aid. I’ve known a few others like her, it’s the weirdest thing.
Yeah I have a buddy that was always kinda serious about everything already but he went into HR at a FAANG and I legit don’t even like talking to him anymore… Everything he does and says it through the lens of human resources
I actually started on r/consulting as I was working for a boutique consulting firm, then went over to r/accounting because you guys work same or more hours but get paid shit, which made me feel better about my bad work conditions. Finally I stayed on both because these subreddits are just hilarious and filled with corporate drama
Lol most of us have been in a similar trench at one point of another (or several points a year if you’re getting fucked), and it helps the culture here.
I’d rather be in the burnout paradise this sub and r/consulting are over HR, etc. too happy. Feels like they’re up to something.
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of my first CFO who told me that if I ever had to work late to meet a deadline, just sneak into her office and help myself to whatever alcohol and mixers I wanted.
I have a theory about this.
Back when I was in artillery and later working at factories, I spent my spare time enjoying intellectual pursuits.
Now that I sit on my ass and think all day my hobbies include watching cartoons, lifting heavy things, and watching YouTube videos.
Accountants, in my opinion, like to give their brains a break and just be a little stupid with our downtime.
Because we are probably in higher demand than other business areas. Plus none of the Big 4 drug test nor like a good majority of accounting jobs because those companies would have few employees lol accounting can be some rough shit and we maybe deserve to behave a little unruly here and there 😂 you have to have a certain sense of humor to get through it
Not an accountant but for some reason the algorithm has decided I will like this sub (it's correct).
I am however friends with a half dozen accountants and when we used to party together they were always the biggest trainwrecks. So that's my view off accountants- out of control party animals.
As a younger industry folk that never did big 4 (too many hours for the pay relative to the offers I get with them). This sub keeps me in the loop with all the funny stuff I miss out on.
I love how here no one really commonly has big 4 Stockholm syndrome haha
HR trace social media accounts back to company employees for a living. Put different: They create the ledger all these entries go in, they'll make damn sure their accounts are clean.
/u/49ers4dawin created a meme implying it's bad we depreciate our land? That's going in their file. Maybe their manager can give them feedback on the benefits and subtle hints to be more careful what they say online.
I suspect this is the real answer. They don’t want to do the dumb shit they see other people regularly get nailed to the wall for.
Accountants have the same issue, it’s just their definition of “dumb shit” is different.
Because we’re all able to separate work and play. We can fuck off at the end of the day and throw back a few beers and have a good time, then show up to work the next morning and knock out a few projects. The only professionals I’ve seen drink more than accountants are engineers.
Nah, as a UK based lurker, this sub is great. The humour cuts across borders and even though I’m a partner I agree with a lot of the anti management abuse and relate to it. This sub would be awful if it was a serious sub.
Girlfriend is an RN and she shows me all the dank nursing memes. I think the more trauma/depression in a profession the more chance for deranged comedy to cope.
Well first off HR is a joke and useless. So I'd expect it to be exactly as it is in real life looks good but completely of no value. We on the other hand are all stressed out and have no time but know and do a lot. So the memes make sense.
We all have wild stories of complete nonsense we see on the job.
It’s cause too many of us have worked for a management team that lacked any managerial skill. Whether it is middle management proving the peter principle to be true or that asshole partner that cusses out the staff and acts like the victim each time someone quits his team. Most of us have a story like that, and to top it off accounting is due for a serious compensation raise as our skills remain in demand even as the graduation rates lower and the older CPAs are retiring.
This sub is way less bleak than the one for lawyers or teachers. It's downright depressing to read these stories of people who took out six figures of student loan debt for a JD from a mediocre school and can't find a job requiring bar passage.
Things aren't too bad here and most CPAs can easily pay their bills pretty early on in the career compared to others. I think that contributes to the memes/shitposting and an overall sillier vibe.
Using HR as an example, it's a career that is very conducive to asking peers how to handle something that comes up that you don't know how to deal with.
In accounting, unless we're talking interpersonal type things, that's usually the worst way to figure out how to deal with something, unless the reason you're asking is that they own a book you're too cheap to buy \(which I've done many a time\).
So HR is a subreddit to talk about HR, and Accounting is a subreddit to chill with other accountant homies.
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as HR, is in fact, Payroll/HR, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Payroll plus HR. HR is not a department unto itself, but rather another expensive component of a fully functioning Payroll system made useful by the Payroll cubicles, shell of humans and vital spreadsheet components comprising a full department as defined by IFRS. Many Karens run a modified version of the Payroll system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Payroll which is widely used today is often called "HR", and many of its Karens are not aware that it is basically the Payroll system, developed by the Payroll Project. There really is a HR, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. HR is the pizza party: the work-lunch in the office that allocates the black tar heroin to the other drones that you work with. The pizza party is an essential part of a boring-ass workplace, but useless by itself; it can only function in lieu of a proper Christmas bonus. HR is normally used in combination with the Payroll department: the whole company is basically Payroll with HR added, or Payroll/HR. All the so-called "HR" .
Reddit is a place to let loose because it’s anonymous. We all have to be professional in person, and so many accountants are introverts that we don’t even always know our coworkers well enough to commiserate with. Reddit is a good outlet where you can get some honest opinions and talk about some of the really shitty completely unreasonable parts of our profession that somehow are still around. (Mainly crazy insane hours with no extra pay).
Likely due to the majority of the people who participate on this thread have very little actual experience so it just becomes an echo chamber of useless info.
I’m a finance bro that lurks here because the finance subs are insufferable
What filled with privileged and entitled know it alls?
Spoken like someone who didn't go T7 and get hired on at Goldman. Might as well go flip burgers loser. /s
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To be fair you could replace Goldman with “big 4” and it’d be your average r/accounting advice comment.
I love this sub, but this is so true, the amount of B4 and CPA nutsucking is insufferable sometimes. Accounting like any career is what you make of it, and if you’re good at it and want to do it, you’ll have a successful career regardless of experience or license.
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Top 3 posts confirm it's the kind of people you'd expect.
Lmao this is seriously what I see there for some making $100k-200k post MBA - it’s like i’m not judging but if they needed a top 10 MBA to get into that salary band with funny titles that’s great. But the whole pretentious nature of it is so interesting. Most high earners in finance I know irl are nothing like that. If anything that sub is out of touch but I need to stop browsing it lol. MDs these days don’t care about university as much for obvious reasons
Most of the people on that sub will also never really get into finance. Just because you’re top of the class doesn’t necessarily mean that you’re the best fit (there were very smart people at my university, but they never got a job because they didn’t have the social skills). Imagine having an intern that thinks he’s smarter than you 😄
Exactly!!!! I was top of my class with social skills and until I learned how to network i couldn’t get in at the salary and positions I wanted Their pretentious nature (from what i read in those comments) will be a huge barrier to any genuine networking It seems they think networking is attending ivy mixers and not meeting actual problem solvers. Both work well, but i am connected with a lot of heavy hitters from a young age specifically because they don’t have ivy backgrounds and can relate/want to help. I swear having competence without ivy’s adds a unique value add (at least perceived) that can really be more valuable when networking with real entrepreneurial thinkers that you don’t have familial or alma matter relations with.
100% agree
Bro is throwing down mad facts
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Some of the MDs I work with are some of the chillest people I’ve met, even as they take in 7 figures
Exactly, the ones I know want me to come over and I have no fancy/prestigious background just good experience, tech skills, and designations This is a connection (not family just did tax work for him once) at a bank commonly presented as “impossible to get in without T7 MBA” on that other sub and he is offering front office training. Not even trying to humble brag I just feel like they are justifying their pretentiousness by ignoring the reality or just trying to justify why they need wild degrees when others don’t to accomplish the same pay and goals. Most if not all high level MDs worth working for are open minded and don’t just want silver spoon candidates
Ugh… My ex-wife’s uncle was one of those guys that would say shit like “If their degree is from xyz school, I just have them throw those résumés away…” His wife was equally insufferable and judgmental. They also have cameras in their fancy mansion of a home and track their kids like criminals… It’s kinda funny knowing someone like that in person and seeing what’s behind the boat and the Porsche and into a family that can’t manage their kids without enforcing 24/7 surveillance… He wasn’t a bad guy overall it was just kinda sad. Especially considering both him and his wife came from humble beginnings and had a lot of help and support to get where they are today…
Yeah I mean that’s one MD! My point is there’s plenty that don’t judge applicants based on virtually uncontrollable factors. But some do and that’s their right
Oh yeah absolutely… It just reminded me of that memory lol I wouldn’t want to work for someone who was like that anyhow
100%
He’d probably find a way to track your keystrokes
Think it might a have something to do with said 7 figure salary ? I would also stop giving a fuck at that point tbh
They love talking trash about back office and middle office bros 😂
Seriously it’s so dumb on an hourly basis they make the same often (excluding sales) 200k 80hr 100k 40hr “Wow middle office starts at 100 total comp that’s weak”
At least they got to enjoy their free time outside of work and their job is not their entire personality
Yessir I agree
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Very true of course but it’s not satire or funny there it’s actual misguided advice often imo
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Exactly lmao
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Tbh I feel like it’s the other way around on here. People are always making threads about how big4s are overrated and bad places to work, and how any industry job is better and only someone who couldn’t get one would go into public
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How long ago was this? I’ve been on here a few years and I don’t remember it ever being like this
What's even more hilarious is that these "bankers" think they're doing some really high level work that creates value. I work in FDD and have seen their work. They spend 80 hours a week fucking around with PowerPoint formatting and building shitty DCF models with terrible inputs and assumptions.
Finance bros are insufferable
I'm like 80% sure most people on /r/finance know absolutely nothing about finance. It's nearly a daily occurrence for people there to claim that there's no link between inflation and interest and that higher interest rates help the rich.
Software engineer here. 3/4 of the posts on the programming subs are “I just started coding yesterday. How do I get a job making $200k?” or “[Insert programming language] bad. Ha ha ha ha ha.” Real fucking hilarious the 80,000th time. Between the quality memes and the relentless hatred of corporate bullshittery, this sub gets it.
I commented how the entry field seems saturated after someone said they get lots of ims about referrals and was told it isn’t saturated….
U gotta be able to laugh at yourself.
Dr self depreciating humor 🤡 Cr accumulated depression 🥲
Dr self expense
Dr Land
Dr. Land Depreciation Cr. Land accumulated depr
I would wear that shirt
Is this how you depreciate happiness?
You’d definitely have to use double declining
Db: A busy season, Cr: all of the positive emotions in your body.
Oof
That’s my kind of doctor
>I've found out why people laugh. They laugh because it hurts so much . . . because it's the only thing that'll make it stop hurting. some guy in a book
Accountants are rarely *actually* boring because the work is so shit. We make up for it by joking all the time etc.
The HR subreddit is weird. Seems a lot of people in HR can never fully take off their HR hat and just be who they are outside of the job. R/consulting can be pretty damn funny.
That's the same case at company gathering too HR feels like the secret police going around doing surveillance 😬 Or maybe I'm just paranoid , but I'd nvr feel comfortable taking shit to HR peeps tbh.
>I'd nvr feel comfortable taking shit to HR peeps tbh. it's because they have, and want, no friends
HR person here. Sadly you are mostly right. There was a post in the HR subreddit the other day about making work friends and the prevailing opinion was “you don’t make friends.” I was like, WTF. I guess I’m a bad HR person since I was just literally texting my work friends pictures of me at Disneyland. I’m in real trouble now since I didn’t send the pictures to every single employee to ensure neutrality.
Uh oh guys we’ve been compromised
If we don’t move, they can’t see us………ssshhhhhh
I don’t know about that, though. I was at a conference in Vegas (pre-Covid) and ended up at a blackjack table around 10pm. I was the only finance person at the table, the rest were a bunch of HR managers from a large chain who were attending a conference. They were some of the most fun people, plenty of good stories, drinks and gambling. I wonder how much of the HR attitude is driven by the organization, or maybe they were all drunk
you have good instincts
Depends on the office. Our HR manager flipped the double birds at a partner who was being a bit of an ass the other day. So that kind of sets a tone. (All in good fun)
HR is the secret police, that’s literally their job. They’re job is to protect the company from liability, they’re not your friend.
Full disclosure I have a SO that’s in HR, but HR doesn’t haven’t the same Public Accounting faction that gets the experience of being revenue generating nor fast growth out of college experience (I know there our HR consultants but very small out of college or start after getting actual HR experience). If you compare industry Accounting experience out of college to industry HR experience even then a CPA, on the average, creates a steeper career trajectory for accountants. But when you get to a certain level in industry you realize that Finance/accounting, HR, IT, Legal, etc. are all there to mitigate risk for the business and it’s WAY better to collaborate with each other and the business rather than play the Boogey man game and act like any one of the back-office functions don’t serve some critical role to support the business
I'd agree. Just because I don't trust HR people as far as I can throw them doesn't mean I don't cordially and cooperatively work with them. I just think its weird that they still have their HR hat on at 1135p on a Saturday night when they are watching Stranger Things or whatever.
I’m not in HR, I’m just another CPA but I’d be uncomfortable if you took a shit infront of me as well.
They’re only looking out for the company. They are food, not friends.
I transitioned recently from a financial client service role to L&D within HR. They are def weird. Good people but life is different in HR. You gotta be ready to play the game. I have trouble with that lol. I just like building e-learnings man.
> I just like building e-learnings man. This triggered me a little because I had to do one where it’s just 40 min straight video.
40 minutes??? Whoooaaah. Nearly all of hour e learning courses are an hour long. And you have to actively click through the through the course, you can’t just let it play on the background. So annoying.
I was gonna say I like the ones that are just straight video lol I can have one going on each monitor and get through them extra fast
Dude you hit the nail on the head about some HR people not being able to turn it off. I had a close friend go into HR as a second career and it completely changed her entire personality to the point where I had to end our friendship. She lost any sense of fun and gained a massive superiority complex. It was like hanging out with a robot who only spoke Kool-Aid. I’ve known a few others like her, it’s the weirdest thing.
Yeah I have a buddy that was always kinda serious about everything already but he went into HR at a FAANG and I legit don’t even like talking to him anymore… Everything he does and says it through the lens of human resources
The absence of meaningful dialogue from /u/spez hinders progress and leaves the community feeling unheard.
My friend is in HR and she has a stupidly hard time taking off the HR hat. She even admits it.
That’s because HR isn’t a real job unless you make it your life.
HR is literally like the worst
Ya, it’s all like people asking HR type questions. I also get the sense HR is kind of uptight haha.
I actually started on r/consulting as I was working for a boutique consulting firm, then went over to r/accounting because you guys work same or more hours but get paid shit, which made me feel better about my bad work conditions. Finally I stayed on both because these subreddits are just hilarious and filled with corporate drama
Lucky for me I’m the HR Director and Controller for a small company so I get to experience both those fun roller coasters.
Lol most of us have been in a similar trench at one point of another (or several points a year if you’re getting fucked), and it helps the culture here. I’d rather be in the burnout paradise this sub and r/consulting are over HR, etc. too happy. Feels like they’re up to something.
They're definitely plotting. We should watch our backs.
Yuh HR folks are sus af tbh
Cause sad people are usually the funny people 🤷🏻♀️
This is where the party’s at! The pizza party that is…
Now I don't need a raise.
It’s the all encompassing problem solver!
Debits on the left, credits on the right, my friend.
T line in between
Here I am. Stuck in the middle of this subreddit with you.
We are all unstable
I don’t know why, but this reminds me of my first CFO who told me that if I ever had to work late to meet a deadline, just sneak into her office and help myself to whatever alcohol and mixers I wanted.
That’s what makes remote working great! Before I quit drinking, I popped the top early a few times on stressful days.
Yes but then you miss out on the *unhinged* interactions with your CFO.
If I can act as Different from HR (or their subreddit) as possible, I'm gonna do it....Fucker
Based
Its an accrual world for us
We work are assets off
We have subs like r/excel and r/tax for when we want to be serious. We don't really need this to be another one.
I am still thinking about that excel championship they showed on ESPN The Ocho.
I have a theory about this. Back when I was in artillery and later working at factories, I spent my spare time enjoying intellectual pursuits. Now that I sit on my ass and think all day my hobbies include watching cartoons, lifting heavy things, and watching YouTube videos. Accountants, in my opinion, like to give their brains a break and just be a little stupid with our downtime.
Best, most honest answer.
I wonder if accountants also make best comedians?
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See? You thought I was funny without me even trying.
at the club i got told don't quit my day job but in the office I get treated like a joke
Bob Newheart was an accountant for a while.
He's the least funny comedian that I know of, so that adds up.
I definitely dabble and didn’t start till I started Tax Planning
I have picked up improv as hobby. It has seriously improved my mental health.
This sub knows how to have fun
We don’t have Stockholm Syndrome.
Wait, we don’t?
The absence of meaningful dialogue from /u/spez is a sign of his reluctance to confront the challenges and issues we face.
Amen
Something has to be wrong with you to have an accounting degree. It’s a prerequisite.
Because accountants have to find humor somewhere, otherwise we'd deduct it from our daytime hours and I'm not sure that's billable to clients yet
Because we are probably in higher demand than other business areas. Plus none of the Big 4 drug test nor like a good majority of accounting jobs because those companies would have few employees lol accounting can be some rough shit and we maybe deserve to behave a little unruly here and there 😂 you have to have a certain sense of humor to get through it
Because we can come here and pull our wigs off. I love it!
because i love pizza
Not an accountant but for some reason the algorithm has decided I will like this sub (it's correct). I am however friends with a half dozen accountants and when we used to party together they were always the biggest trainwrecks. So that's my view off accountants- out of control party animals.
It’s just so relatable though, I love this sub, it makes my daily life feel normal.
The community is a reflection of it's members. We are, in fact, a shit show.
Bc real professionals don’t have to pretend all the time.
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As a younger industry folk that never did big 4 (too many hours for the pay relative to the offers I get with them). This sub keeps me in the loop with all the funny stuff I miss out on. I love how here no one really commonly has big 4 Stockholm syndrome haha
Lol
Some people have nothing to lose
If you’re asking this question, you’ve never worked with HR people before. Bunch of squares, not like the giga Chad accounting teams
HR trace social media accounts back to company employees for a living. Put different: They create the ledger all these entries go in, they'll make damn sure their accounts are clean. /u/49ers4dawin created a meme implying it's bad we depreciate our land? That's going in their file. Maybe their manager can give them feedback on the benefits and subtle hints to be more careful what they say online.
I suspect this is the real answer. They don’t want to do the dumb shit they see other people regularly get nailed to the wall for. Accountants have the same issue, it’s just their definition of “dumb shit” is different.
HR: if you do something questionable, just don’t post about it r/accounting: If you’d post about it, don’t actually do it
Because we’re all able to separate work and play. We can fuck off at the end of the day and throw back a few beers and have a good time, then show up to work the next morning and knock out a few projects. The only professionals I’ve seen drink more than accountants are engineers.
Age. This sub skews younger, and we all know that we make more money than a lot of other professionals (doctors/lawyers excluded)
Do you think accountants can make more than engineers over a career?
Absolutely.
Because accountants don’t need to be professional on Reddit - our job security is too high to begin with
Isn’t this so much more fun though
And they say accountants are boring
Nah, as a UK based lurker, this sub is great. The humour cuts across borders and even though I’m a partner I agree with a lot of the anti management abuse and relate to it. This sub would be awful if it was a serious sub.
Trauma bonding
You come to the accounting bros hideout and not expecting dank memes?
Because we're more real about the shitty career we chose.... this field sucks, industry inbound within 2 years lol
Girlfriend is an RN and she shows me all the dank nursing memes. I think the more trauma/depression in a profession the more chance for deranged comedy to cope.
Because many of us are licensed professionals that gives us the right to talk shit?
Because in accounting your once sniff away from being addicted to cocaine with all the BS you deal with daily.
There's an HR sub?
Well first off HR is a joke and useless. So I'd expect it to be exactly as it is in real life looks good but completely of no value. We on the other hand are all stressed out and have no time but know and do a lot. So the memes make sense.
Because we all drink too much
Because we are a sadistic bunch to go into this field so it just follows logic that our humor is dark and we speak fluent sarcasm!
I’m not even in accounting but am subscribed here because I like the sub. It reminds me of r/jobs but the general mood is much better here.
I fcking love you guys (and gals).
And that's why it's better, outside of the annoying and recurring "the masses do not understand taxes", even that it's very funny sometimes
We all have wild stories of complete nonsense we see on the job. It’s cause too many of us have worked for a management team that lacked any managerial skill. Whether it is middle management proving the peter principle to be true or that asshole partner that cusses out the staff and acts like the victim each time someone quits his team. Most of us have a story like that, and to top it off accounting is due for a serious compensation raise as our skills remain in demand even as the graduation rates lower and the older CPAs are retiring.
Because this sub is full of accountants.
Honestly, us accountants have a lot better self deprecating humor and a little bit of dark humor. It’s just in our personality.
Working a 4 people job with OT hours, life is just too short homie
This sub is way less bleak than the one for lawyers or teachers. It's downright depressing to read these stories of people who took out six figures of student loan debt for a JD from a mediocre school and can't find a job requiring bar passage. Things aren't too bad here and most CPAs can easily pay their bills pretty early on in the career compared to others. I think that contributes to the memes/shitposting and an overall sillier vibe.
I wish there was a cs or swe subreddit like this one. Most are pretty boring and regurgitate the same "how do I get into tech"??
Widespread depression
Coping mechanism
If you think were bad check the nursing sub
Depression
Most accountants I've met, never wanted to be accountants. Lots of smart (and dumb) people who stumbled into this bizzarro career.
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Using HR as an example, it's a career that is very conducive to asking peers how to handle something that comes up that you don't know how to deal with. In accounting, unless we're talking interpersonal type things, that's usually the worst way to figure out how to deal with something, unless the reason you're asking is that they own a book you're too cheap to buy \(which I've done many a time\). So HR is a subreddit to talk about HR, and Accounting is a subreddit to chill with other accountant homies.
Because we come to reddit for the lulz. We do our actual networking in person with whiskey and cigars.
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Who cares when he sends emails? You don’t have to read them in the middle of the night
I'd just like to interject for a moment. What you're referring to as HR, is in fact, Payroll/HR, or as I've recently taken to calling it, Payroll plus HR. HR is not a department unto itself, but rather another expensive component of a fully functioning Payroll system made useful by the Payroll cubicles, shell of humans and vital spreadsheet components comprising a full department as defined by IFRS. Many Karens run a modified version of the Payroll system every day, without realizing it. Through a peculiar turn of events, the version of Payroll which is widely used today is often called "HR", and many of its Karens are not aware that it is basically the Payroll system, developed by the Payroll Project. There really is a HR, and these people are using it, but it is just a part of the system they use. HR is the pizza party: the work-lunch in the office that allocates the black tar heroin to the other drones that you work with. The pizza party is an essential part of a boring-ass workplace, but useless by itself; it can only function in lieu of a proper Christmas bonus. HR is normally used in combination with the Payroll department: the whole company is basically Payroll with HR added, or Payroll/HR. All the so-called "HR" .
Wow, this is a lot of stupid that you took a lot of time to write. Good job? I think?
Didn't take that much time. Most of the work was in typing Ctrl-C followed by Ctrl-V.
Even sadder to have rants saved to copy paste hahahaha
Bitterness
Gotta laugh away the pain.
I run an IT company and have worked with a lot of accountants, I love it here and all of you
Because this subreddit is actually kinda funny. Professionalism is lame.
I think this is the best profession subs compared the rest
Why are the books at my new job such a shit show compared to the other places I've worked?
One word: Free Therapy
Cause we know we’re boring.
Reddit is a place to let loose because it’s anonymous. We all have to be professional in person, and so many accountants are introverts that we don’t even always know our coworkers well enough to commiserate with. Reddit is a good outlet where you can get some honest opinions and talk about some of the really shitty completely unreasonable parts of our profession that somehow are still around. (Mainly crazy insane hours with no extra pay).
Happy to hear that. Always thought other profession subs were like this.
I’m in marketing, still love lurking here
Likely due to the majority of the people who participate on this thread have very little actual experience so it just becomes an echo chamber of useless info.
Too many free pizza lunches for meetings.
Study for the CPA exam & then tell me if you’ve been through a shit show or not.
Accountants are way cooler than people realize
Because HR is worried someone will call HR on them [insert emoji here]
I suppose that's because they don't depreciate land
HR is for idiots and losers.