You’ll recall we reported on the utterly remarkable story of PwC’s formerly man-breasted COO, Neil Wilson, in early March. Wilson revealed to the AFR that:
“Since his chubby adolescence [he] had silently lived with male breasts, feeling self-conscious but never knowing anything could be done about them. As a youth he had been embarrassed changing in the locker room and as an adult… he never wore tight tops. Polo shirts were out… and so was lycra, even though he was a committed cyclist. He was was always comfortable going to work at PwC … because loose-fitting business shirts with buttons and a pocket provided some disguise.”
While Neil Wilson may no longer have whopping bitch tits (having had breast-reduction surgery), it still took a full chest for him to allegedly admit that perceptions of his Big4 firm PwC are deteriorating in the market. A bit like going from a D-Cup to an A-cup.
If our anonymous PwC spy is to be believed, “Whoppers” Wilson has employed a fellow ex-pat Brit bosom-buddy to head its PR operation in an effort to lift the firm off the surgery floor:
Re: plenty of jobs for expat poms at PwC
While busily outsourcing and offshoring everything in sight and putting Aussies out of jobs, there was an expensive bit of insourcing recently with PwC’s new appointment of bombastic ex-Boeing Brit Matthew de la Haye (yes, it is a real name!) an old school PR flak (with all the attendant tendencies) who was brought in from overseas on huge (we mean whopping) $$$$$ to improve the ailing firm’s propaganda efforts. He was hired by none other than fellow Brit “Whoppers Wilson”. Was Wilson’s exposure of his erstwhile “whoppers” Mr de la Haye’s sterling idea for his pommy mate?
An excellent question! Who on earth instructed Whoppers Wilson to expose his man-boobs to the entire AFR readership? If it was incoming PR Mr de la Haye, we would characterise it as his first major tit cock-up.
Meanwhile, finally a slice of good news from the firm. In the words of another PwC spy:
A glimmer of hope came with a call at Christmas … we all got bonuses! About a month’s pay in most cases, speaking of managers and below in assurance. Some workers at the other big 4 weren’t too happy. A preview of the hefty payrises to come in July after scraping the barrel for so long? With the exodus you would hope so and my oh my, is it an exodus!
Will your firm hand you a fist full of cash, or a pound of breast-flesh on July 1?
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Where were these bonuses in Internal Services (IFS) that “everyone” seemed to get according to this post? Unless you’re above Manager, not many bonuses going around here that I’ve seen.
Hey Whoppers – how about spreading some man boob love.
I believe these bonus payments were made only to a selective group of staff the firm deem as important. what about the lack of interest or care about the rest of us? I hope the management look closely at the pulse survey results due in by the 23rd April and actually engage with the staff and HC to make PwC a better place One detail to note Neil, Mark and co is that we all have close friends and family at other corporates all over Australia, Look after your people, do the right thing cause corporate Australia is watching and judging you are future advisors and partners.