Can be improve - Tax Associate - PCS BDO Employee Review

3.0
2 Oct 2023
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

I love how the staff level are lovely and bonded there . People were helpful and United.

Cons

- We get blamed in things that we do by the superiors. Especially on our emails, we have to write it according the way of their style and structure (even though you and most people could understand your emails and the content are the same , but they still want you to write and change according their way.) not flexible in writing emails and create so much the fuss for 1 email. I have been using the same standard English in writing email. - Having alot of workload and need to tank the jobs when people are going on long leaves. Yet still not appreciated. - What is worst is. When we sent out supporting documents to the superior, we have to sit beside them and open for them for their review. Is like what is the point of sending to you the supporting documents if I myself have to be beside you and spoon feed you and show you all the documents ?it will be really wasting of the time and not effective. - Works has been sent long ago for superior review, yet it took weeks to comeback to us. On the very last minutes when we are suppose to submit it. (Yes we understand that it might be alot of work for superior, but that doesn’t mean it could be done in the very last minutes and later put the blame on the staff ) - Everyday going to work just thinking on how to avoid getting blamed and also the email sending. (It will be mentally tiring. I wonder how people can actually learn.) - NO WFH or hybrid when there are cluster of COVID 19 being spread one after another in the team. Big boss don’t really care of the staff well being, it’s just all about money $$$ and revenue

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Cons

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