Having worked here in the past 2 years has been my worst nightmare. There is no fairness in how employees' performance is evaluated. You ended up with no recognition in your contribution at all, although you handled insane amount of workload, difficult clients and complex situations.
I have seen how high-performance employees were driven out of the office because they get blamed for "working too hard" or "helping other employees too much". I have seen people who get promotion into management without qualifying as a Canadian CPAs.
I have seen staff taking leaves after they are booked on engagements and still able to get away with it. I have seen managers disappearing on tight deadlines, leaving the staff struggling on files and still getting away with it. I have seen high-performance employees been driven to work restlessly and NOT getting promotion because according to the partners, they “worked too hard”.
They proclaimed work-life balance. But a better question is who is getting the work life balance? Their favourable babies who get time to rest and promotion with easy effort; or the hardworking ones who spent 70 hours per week, fixing the issue in those high-risk files and getting no recognition?
In the mid year, I came to a senior manager with my concern on favouritism. He told me that I should do self-reflect thinking why I am not the one being favoured for? Guess what, this senior manager also left them in the same year. I guess he found out that he was also not favoured for here.
I discussed with staff about favouritism, everyone told me to shut up because it is a taboo here. It is happening, but everyone is too scared to talk about it. I even got threatened that if I brought this issue to HR, I would be forced to submit my letter of resignation.
Personally, I really regretted working for this office and I know I am not the only one.