The Daily BuzzAuditor sends amazing ‘I quit’ email
A PricewaterhouseCoopers associate auditor has become the latest disgruntled employee to have her biting farewell email — complete with a Britney Spears vs. Beyoncé rant — go viral.
Online business and accounting tabloid GoingConcern published the entire email, written by a woman identified as Glory, earlier this month, calling its author a "failed PwC auditor" who's great at burning bridges.
This week, Gawker also published the diatribe, expressing appreciation for its liberal use of hashtags such as #noneofyourbeeswax and #fakeconvosforfakeauditors.
The email begins normally, with the author announcing she's leaving.
After careful consideration, I will be ending my employment with PwC effective Monday, November 11th.
But the email's tone quickly flies out of the business-appropriate zone and into tear-down-your-colleagues territory.
Auditing is a job for people who truly don't have any other options and don't know what else they could be doing. You work day in and day out pulling useless documentation and filling out useless workpapers that won't really benefit anybody. All of it is BS!
She goes on to say auditors are often "fake" and calls auditing a "useless, meaningless career" before getting personal. She treats each of her team members to tidbits of advice, from minding their business to shutting up about their cats.
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Finally, she lists 10 reasons why Beyoncé is better than Britney Spears, including:
It's unclear why Beyoncé factors into the decision to end her auditing career, but the list certainly caps off the email memorably.
The website Noir CPA published an audio clip of Glory answering some questions about what she was thinking when she sent a nasty email to her colleagues and quit. She says she has no regrets.
