We reported several weeks ago the technonological indiosyncracy of Deloitte – “send the punters voicemails, that way a bad news email cant be flicked to media“.
This is excellent in theory but in practice, if you’ve got a catalogue of disgruntled employees feverishly transcribing the contents of the voicemail, then, bad news can still travel fast.
Take, for example, the horrible news that a couple of Deloitte workers were reportedly sacked for organising a weekend bag of sniff over a Deloitte-owned communication device.
We received the following message from an anonymous Deloitte spy a few days ago:
Hi, I am a new follower of firmspy and this is my first contribution. My latest news is about Deloitte. Recently, we received two voicemails from Keith Skinner, CFO, (both on Friday afternoons) that the current pay freeze would remain in place at December but normal promotions would still occur as per normal. However, some service lines have decided to deliberately misinterpret this policy and have ruled out promotions altogether. The firm and partners have played on the uncertainty around this issue by refusing to announce which policy is correct. Some partners’ response to the issue has been whether the employees preferred redundancies or a promotion? Tough choice? Not really!
So what’s the story Skinner? Get the disagreeably garish Giam Swiegers on the phione! It’s not the old trick of increasing a worker’s charge-out rate (look, he’s now a fifth year!) but failing to increase the same worker’s wage, is it?! It is probably unsurprising that Giam and the team can afford a half million dollar partnership summit.
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