Comments on: Deloitte: email from newbie to partner

By: Bob

Bob — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:53:24 +0000

wait 'til she finds out what the job really entails. Young and stupid- that's how we all like them, yet clients will pay out the nose for someone like this that knows absolutely nothing. The firm pays her jack (and trains her on the client's dime). A great business model (all the Big four), certainly for partner/accountants (unreal was a BA can buy you with the right marketing). If she is dumb enough to stay running in place for 20 years she'll get her 3% raise every year and maybe even a token bonus, only if she continues to write email like this one of course.

By: Jd

Jd — Sat, 27 Dec 2008 23:02:47 +0000

I do agree with Karen that there isn’t really anything wrong with this email. Ignoring the fact that it was well written, to a degree it is sucking up, but as a newbie how really do you make your appreciation for a new job and associated learning experience in an unknown environment?

I assume he/she didn’t send this out to everyone and was just directing the email to “Frank”, so this really isn’t a mistake he/she made since one-on-one this email would have been fine. “Frank” being a partner was/is an appropriate person to talk to, and if the author overstepped or was considered to be “brown nosing”, that partner as the senior experienced person should have been able to bring this up and adjust the newbie’s expectations, etc.

More to the point, how did this email (which is marked as Draft…) become to be “making the rounds”? Again, I assume the author did not send it to everyone, just Frank. So, did someone hack/crack the author’s email account at work? Frank’s? How did it go from personal to public?

If a personal email can become public then so can company confidential information. I sure hope human resources is on the case and looking closely into how this breach of privacy occurred and if internal, then working to discipline and remove the culprit.

People can make fun of the author for this “mistake” but really, he/she noted an interest in the field, the company, and indicated a long term goal/commitment with the company. This is better than so many ‘newbies’ that I’ve seen over the recent years that it would be nice to have dedicated long-term thinking employees. (hell, outside of making a paycheck and surviving these interesting economic times, as an employee why on earth wouldn’t you be interested in making partner, and as a partner in the firm ??)

– Jd

By: Karen

Karen — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 22:48:29 +0000

I really dont find anything bad about this email. We all had to start somewhere in life and to be that hopeful about a career that one person is passionate about is great. You can call it sucking up….. I call it couragous to put ones self out there.

By: Jon Reed

Jon Reed — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 14:05:14 +0000

The best thing about surfing is that it cleans all the brown off your nose!

Thanks for the trip down noobie lane. I hope I never wrote an email like this in the early stages of my career, if I did, I hope no one saved it. LOL

- Jon -

By: Dennis Howlett

Dennis Howlett — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:04:44 +0000

So it would seem: let’s revisit in oooooh – 6 months and see if he feels the same

By: Zoli Erdos

Zoli Erdos — Sat, 29 Nov 2008 01:01:11 +0000

Obviously in 3 days he learned rule #1: you become partner by s***ing up to partners…