A few word about work

I thought I'd give a little more info to clarify what I do for a living..

I'm a class of 2006 graduate from a small business college in Boston. My school was well known for its accountancy program, which I absolutely hate. Instead, I majored in Finance thinking I'd avoid that dry topic - Accounting, took 9 credits of it, got A in all of it, not that I'm not good at it, I just don't like it. It wasn't hard, but it was dry as hell.

So graduate with a good GPA, president's list, dean's list for all semester, except for that 1 semester I was studying abroad in Hong Kong (HKU). Got to say though, that was the best semester of my college life, it was like a 6 months vacation, I barely went to any class and traveled every single weekend. Spent my nights making out with my boyfriend at that time and getting drunk at local bars.

Life was getting better and better as I approached graduation. I was enjoying life, loving life and didn't give a crap about all the small pity shit in the world. Then I started interviewing for jobs, and things got a little out of hand. I was emotional and afraid I won't be able to find a job. 5 months of job hunting. It was like having a job just by job searching. My days used to be like 3 interviews, 2 midterms, then go to work and tutor at night. 12 hour days were like NOTHING. I lost weight, not just because I didn't have time to eat, but I was partying and drinking from Wed to Sat. and getting wasted and throwing up.

Whatever, long story short. Got an offer in CT, didn't want to live in CT, so I waitted and didn't call them back to accept the offer (salary was in the 40's). They withdrew the office in April, them B*TCHES. Anyways, interviewed somemore, and didn't have anything good because I really REALLY wanted to work in NYC. I don't want to stay in Boston, didn't want to work in NJ and loved the BIG APPLE.

Then I attend an interview for a company I never heard of. It was a consulting company, I didn't know what consulting was. I always thought I'd be in finance or investment. My internship were mostly with financial advisors or investment firms. So I didn't know much outside of that world.

The interview went well. They told me I'd travel a lot, 50% of the time and that I will be working with a variety of companies. BINGO! It's exactly what I want! Travel and see different industries. PLUS! they could transfer to the NYC office, which is the headquarter, even though they were interviewing for the Boston office.

2 days later, I got a phone call to pack my bags and go to NYC for a "super day", which means you will get interviewed by 5-6 different people all in one day. It's like a mega interview torture. Let's see how long u can talk about yourself for. I was so out of this world happy. I had an exam the day before, came home, packed my bags and sat there until 4am to have a car service pick me up. I didn't sleep for 24 hours, no joke. 6am flight, sat on the flight with a suit for 1 hour, got to NYC via cab ride at 8am. The first thing I did was finding a Starbucks and get a red eye.

As I entered the skyscrapper building, I thought to myself, just do your best and present yourself well. This is it. I'm almost there! Interviewed from 9-1pm, and I was on the verge of passing out. Hailed a yellow NYC cab and went home in NJ.

2 days later, I got a phone call. "Stephanie, we'd like to offer a position in the NYC office as a consultant. The offer is $5X,000. We look forward to have you on board, please let us know when you decide."

I ran to the bathroom crying (was in the middle of a tutor session) and just let all that tears out. OMG, it was a dream come true. 10G's more and NYC! and the traveling, omfg, I'm in heaven!

Anyways, fast forward a few months. I'm in training, traveling to philly and houston, everything's all danty. Got on the biggest client of ours, a very very big Japanese firm. Worked and worked...

Until one day, I just didn't know the purpose of my job anymore. All I do is write page numbers, copying, making binders and I'm not sure if my manager knew my name. We all sat in a conference room, stuffy and small. Dude, where is this going?

Turns out, my actual professional is an AUDITOR. fucking great. i thought i'd be able to avoid that. Anyways, for people that's not in finance, auditors are basically accountants. You check people's books/processes and make sure everything's in place. Checks and balances, get it?

Everybody hates auditors. Imagine u r doing your job, I come up to u and ask you, "Hi, I'm going to audit you. Give me the last 10,000 checks you deposited and I will see if you've verified every thing." then I will let you know if you've made a mistake. This could cost your job. So of course you'd hate me.

But it's too late now. For me, at least I'm at a bigger firm now. And the audits I do are finance related. I make sure our balance sheets, income statements are correct when it's published. This whole thing about auditors wouldn't blow up if it wasn't for Enron and WorldCom. We need to make sure that alll of our disclosures are following the FASB and SEC.

Sigh.. anyways... I just had performance review with my VP. I don't understand what does me being too straight forward have to do with my performance. I asked him where I could improve on, he said something like "think before you speak" "improve your communications skills" "be professional"

all of these is just because I didn't know that Priests are supposed to be celibate. He's a vietnamese roman cathlic. I don't know what's more embarrassing, I don't know that Preists are not supposed to have sex or him pretending he doesn't know about Asian traditions. He doesn't celebrate Chiense New year, but go all out during Christmas, However, he doesn't accept a gift if it's a clock or watch.

Just because when he said Preists are celibate and I asked "they are not supposed to have sex?" He's saying I'm unprofessional. Dude, we were having a group small talk. Just cus I mentioned SEX! doesn't mean I'm being dirty. Preists are like monks then, except monks don't molest little boys.

Anyways, work is pissing me off. What do you do when you have a 35 yr boss who doesn't care about you? Go tell on his boss. I'd be funny if I showed up at the MD's office and said "hey, did you know your VP is saying he thinks every one will quit soon? and he said someone might get laid off?" you better put him in check, cus that boy talks too much and doesn't watch his mouth.

Talk about unprofessionalism. Sh**************t