[Article] days of andaxin

Today, I read an article written by a colleague who once worked in Shenzhen anda mail from start to end. Suddenly there was an impulse to cry, and the previous dribs and drops appeared in front of me like spring. Half a year after I joined PwC, I had to go back to the days I used to live in andat for the first time in my memory.

When I graduated from college, andat was my wish in my junior year. The reason was very simple, but the teacher told me: "The Five accounting firms in the world have the highest salaries. "What else can a student who just stepped out of school expect in addition to a high salary? Four years ago, andaxin's entry-level salary was 3800 yuan. So in my first semester of my senior year, I made every effort to prepare me for entering andat. I studied very well in college, but my university is not famous. andainfo didn't even recruit students in our school. The first obstacle I encountered was my resume. The "five major accounts" are the focal points for accounting students. I am facing the brutal competition with Tsinghua, Peking University, the National People's Congress, and Foreign Economic and Trade College Students, so I spent a whole month designing my resume. In order not to let the personnel department's eyes stay in my school, the first part of my resume uses a story-telling technique to tell a young girl a graduate, of course, I did my best to use a variety of rhetorical techniques to describe how rare I was. My resume finally attracted the attention of andaxin with my background at beiqing newspaper Xuetong. I received the first interview notification in my life.

I was notified to my students at Peking University and Peking University to join the interview, which is the last one. I took an afternoon's English class against the cold wind of October, riding a bicycle across half of Beijing City from the red temple to Peking University. I sat there two hours earlier, and no one was talking to me. Peking University students came in one by one, with a confident smile on their faces. With a strong psychological disadvantage, I met my first interviewer in my life: thomasleung, a Hong Kong manager who speaks good Mandarin. I admire him for sitting there for an interview and chatting with me with a polite smile.
Thomas smiled and said to me, "Your resume says your 'excellent reading, writing, and listening in English. 'Then let's chat in English. "I regretted writing that sentence 10 thousand times in my heart, but I nodded confidently and said," Okay. "

In the next 40 minutes, Thomas explained the audit philosophy and audit methods of andaxin in fluent English. Unfortunately, I didn't quite understand it. I smiled, nodded, and smiled clearly until Thomas asked me, "How many universities in Beijing? ", I nodded and smiled. Thomas "hmm? "With a sigh of relief, I suddenly recalled that the last sentence I just said seemed to be a question. In this way, in extreme tension, I completed my first English interview. Two years later, I accidentally saw the interview record at that time. In all aspects, I was "excellent" except "English communication ".

So far, I am grateful to Thomas for giving me the opportunity for the second interview when my English conversation is "low". After three rounds of interviews, I have received an offer from the five most radical accounting firms in the world.
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In fact, before I entered andaxin, I heard that it was very bitter and tiring. A friend I met who worked in andaxin told me, "please think about it, this job makes you lose all your private time. You must take on the pressure and responsibilities of yourself, because there is no one to help you. "I really underestimated what she meant. When I started my formal work in andat, I faced countless waivers.

The training of new employees of AMDA is in Shenzhen. Everyone calls it a honeymoon. We met our colleagues from Shanghai, Shenzhen, Chongqing, and Guangzhou to play killer together ", go to the bar, drink, dance, and sing, and then go to bed with dark circles in the classroom the next day. The dark days officially started in the second week after I went back to the company after training.

At that time, it was 99 years ago. andaxin received an IPO from China Unicom, which was a big project in provinces. However, at that time, andaxin had no senior in total. The day and night work started, and everyone was facing the enemy. My first close contact with China Unicom was that I had to call the customer to confirm the bad debt accrual policy. The senior seemed to have added an overnight shift, after giving me a few simple explanations of the customer's information, I hurried to do my work, leaving me with a blank face. At that time, I did not know what the audit was, nor had I ever seen real accounts. I did not know where to start from the customer's information, I think of my friend's saying, "You must take on the pressure and responsibility of yourself, because no one has the power to help you ". I took the courage to pick up the phone and dialed the mobile phone number of the finance department chief of Jilin Unicom: "Hello, I am from anda Xin ...... "" Andaxin ?! Again
Du ...... I couldn't say a word while holding the phone.

When I reported the incident to senior in a very serious tone, she simply said, "Many customers are doing this, and you will understand it when you are doing it. You don't have to be familiar with them. "My God, I think the auditor's life should be very visual and face-recognition. Will I often be scolded by customers like this in the future? In the days that followed, I found that I started to complain and complain to customers, and I was able to perform my work in an orderly manner in various harsh environments, because I told myself: "bad temper is actually a manifestation of weakness. "

In the first year of andaxin, I was unable to adapt to working overtime. The senior did not have the consciousness of getting off work on time. In the company, until three o'clock AM, I was still working on computers like a sculpture. In the past, my friends could not participate in a dinner party. Sometimes, when my friends had dinner together, they gave me a call to greet me. At that time, I really wanted to cry and secretly made up my mind, I only work here for one year, and then find a new job to live a normal off-duty life.

I have heard two stunned conversations by senior. One of them said, "I had a good rest last night. I woke up at seven o'clock a.m. on the table. "Another said:" Oh! You have a good rest! "After hearing these words, I almost burst into tears. My God, what kind of company is this! What kind of employees are there!

But what they said is no exaggeration at all. Since the official start of work in March, I almost never went home before three o'clock in the morning. I buried it in a pile of paper and called the customer and wrote memo, get used to yelling at customers. After a customer breaks my phone, I will get up and drink water in the toilet, and then dial the number just now to reapply the required information again calmly until the Customer agrees to provide it.

Sometimes I am so tired that I will rest on the desk for a while, but my mind is still full of numbers and pending issues. They remind me all the time that I still have a job to do, I don't even have time to cry. Many of my colleagues who joined the company with me were unable to cope with such a great deal of work at the beginning. We were just 22 years old, but were responsible for the number of public projects.

Senior is very poor. At three o'clock every morning, we have already returned home, So Senior can start to review our work for a day. I often hear my colleagues crying in the bathroom. I know that they are under too much pressure, because I can't stand it, And I will cry in the bathroom, and then dry my tears and continue fighting. Once I reported to a senior at the company, I suddenly joined another China Unicom project in-charge.
Senior sat down in her seat without any precursor and burst into tears. We listened silently. Someone handed her a paper towel and someone patted her on the shoulder, but no one tried to persuade her, because we all know that she was just trying to let it out. After crying, she still had a lot of work to do.

Every time I talk to others about how hard my work is, it seems that others do not understand it very well because they have never experienced the life we have experienced. When I was working in my first year, I had two crashes. Once I had a small project, I went on a business trip for a month. I went to work with the customer at eight o'clock in the morning, worked overtime at in the evening, and slept for only three hours a day, during the final period of the project, senior and my colleagues who worked with me both fell ill in the second year. I must be responsible for flattening the internal communication of this project. This is something I have never done before, however, the cruel reality is that I only have three days, because three days later I had to go to Shenyang to work in another project. At anda mail, no one can make excuses and no one can accept your reasons. because work is your own, no one else can help you. One day before I went to Shenyang, I had a great night crying and finished my work. I went home and picked up my parents to help me pick up my luggage and went straight to the airport the next morning.

The second collapse was due to China Unicom. I have worked for a long time, no Sunday, no holidays, no appointments, and no meals. I really can't stand it anymore. At a day, when copying customer information, I stared at the huge automatic stapler attached to the photocopier and thought: if I put my finger into it now, I will be able to take sick leave tomorrow. I spent ten minutes in front of the photocopier and decided whether to do this. But I looked at my colleagues sitting far away and every one of them was very busy, I suddenly felt that I had to shoulder my work and responsibilities, because we were a group that needed teamwork spirit. I think the reason why no one lied at the time that they had a fever or caught a cold at work may be because their colleagues' work spirit was getting infected with each other, we know that only by uniting with each other can we complete a project without any link. The responsibility is the first class I learned at anda mail. Are you andaxin ?! Every day, eight hundred of the respondents asked me to say that they were from andaxin. I don't know anything!

This kind of life is cruel. We are accelerating the depreciation of our youth. One of my colleagues was sitting on the opposite side of me. For some time, he felt a stomachache, however, because the project is very tight, it has been painful for a long time and has not gone to the hospital to see a doctor. It was not until one day that the hospital had been examined for pain. It was the late stage of rectal cancer. My colleague and I were very old. After passing the CPA Examination, GMAT scored well, but I never saw him again. But at the same time, this kind of life also has its intangible value. I began to face the pressure without fear, and I began to think that I could handle various customers with confidence, no one can ask me about my work ability and pressure capacity, just like the song we often play during training in Shenzhen. "simply
The best ". In addition, because we need to prepare an English work paper, my "English communication" is no longer "low ".

In fact, at that time, life was very simple. We only needed to work, and the relationship between our colleagues was simple. No one would be able to communicate with each other or think about the boss's favor, because we really don't have time to think about these things. An Da Xin's hierarchical concept is very strict. People who came a year earlier than me are my superiors. In addition, he has a one-year working experience in da Xin, which can surprise beginners. When asking questions, he must prepare lessons first, if you don't want to ask, you can ask "Can you do this?" instead of "How can I do this ". I was not allowed to make stupid mistakes during my work because of a tight schedule. I was scolded by senior for two whole hours because I didn't have a clear credential, but we were still good friends in private.
However, the real value of this kind of life started from the second year when I officially started to contact Ba.

Ba is short for business audit. It is a cutting-edge audit concept implemented by ANDA mail. Its core is the internal control risk of the customer, we started to get involved in various areas of the enterprise without being stuck in financial figures.

A customer in Shenyang is the first company that audited the BA method. At that time, I was already an employee in the second year. We call it "ESA" to "experienced staff ". Due to the odd shortage of senior in the company, many senior seek another job or study abroad because they are too tired or work-related. So I took a colleague from the first year to do the preliminary work of this project.

During the day, we spent ten hours visiting the customer's purchasing department, sales department, marketing department, equipment department, and workshop, talking with the person in charge of various aspects, understanding how the company operates, and understanding the company's purchasing process, the sales process, production process, and cost process are so dry that I don't want to say anything when I return to the hotel at night.

In the evening, we need to describe all the processes in English from start to end and draw a flowchart. One process is usually written from eight o'clock to five o'clock, and then we start to ask another process at the next day. A week later, I watched my colleagues and I write a 50-page Process report. In addition to a sense of accomplishment, I felt exhausted and frustrated. After one year of BA refining, I gradually began to be good at communicating with various people. I used to know the situation with the customer and I was always afraid that the customer would treat me as a child or I was too slow to respond, so I will be very nervous. But now, I am confident that I am sitting on the opposite side of the customer. I absolutely believe that I can understand what the customer said, and quickly respond to the problem and find out unreasonable parts of the process from my mind.

I don't know if the subsequent event was related to the implementation of BA by Alibaba Cloud security, but I am sure that ba is a great challenge and exercise for individuals, we are no longer simply looking at financial auditing, but more closely following the consulting process. We also have a systematic understanding of various industries.

I have long forgotten my commitment to "working here for only two years". I began to like the clean relationship between my colleagues and the radical way of working.

I often complain about my hard work with my friends, because they always say, "How much do you earn. "In the past, when I was in andaxin, I felt that my contribution was not matched. However, it was only now that PwC found that andaxin's benefits were really good. We have a long salary every year, with a long salary rate of about 40% and sometimes higher. What's different from the other four is that we have overtime, A senior can have up to four thousand yuan of overtime for a weekend or two days. However, the four other senior companies do not have overtime. But at anda mail, no one works overtime for overtime, because we would rather spend a few more hours to supplement our sleep.

In this way, I have been working in andaxin for three years like a robot. after attending the senior training organized by Kinabalu in Malaysia, I became a senior, everything remained calm until the event broke out.

When the US Department of Justice announced the formal prosecution of andaxin Houston, andaxin collapsed instantly, and 85,000 of its employees were merged into four other accounting firms, only one headquarters in Switzerland was reserved to accept huge amounts of compensation and legal proceedings. The Greater China region and PwC have merged. Everything was just an instant, because we had no time to worry about what happened to AMDA in the United States, and we never doubted the ability of this "century-old store" to resist external pressure, however, everything is politically related, and AMDA is inevitably the victim of a political conspiracy. A financial giant collapsed in his empire.

On that day, we were still working, because we still had a lot of work to finish. while reading the CNN reports, we wrote memo in our hands without a stop, the pity and sadness in my heart can only be released when I occasionally look up and see my colleagues' eyes. Yes, I once dreamed that my andaxin would be wiped out in an instant.

At PwC, I was the senior of the next year. Life has not changed. China Unicom is still our customer. Most of the projects I have done before have been transferred to PwC for convenience. So it is my project, we are still the last group of people who walked out of the International Trade Center every day. When we got into the taxi queue downstairs in the International Trade Center, the taxi driver still stared at our IBM computer and asked, "Is it andaxin again? "

This merger also caused us to lose many of our former customers. Offshore oil is one of the largest ones, because Sinopec was included in the original project of PwC. Due to industry conflicts, offshore oil was stolen by an Yonghua Ming. In the past, we sent about 15 teams for this project, which is already a big project. Haiyou customers once called to inform us
Sued us: "An Yonghua Ming sent 100 people to do our project, but why did you fix it with only 15 people? "We only have to smile. Isn't it like this? Due to the fast business development and insufficient human resources, we often send three times more people than other firms. Therefore, each person is responsible for the work of three people.

PwC and AMDA are much more gentle than each other, and we are both angry and impatient. Compared with those of puhua, we found that we are very angry and aggressive in doing things. Once a senior from an earlier company was talking to a staff, a general manager came over and said to the staff, "Did he ever come to andaxin? He cannot speak in this way. "We listened and gave each other a look, and the spring of the Staff finally came.

Although AMDA does not exist, what I learned before AMDA will be taken away for my whole life. I am not afraid of customers. I am a child again, because my four-year practical work may be his ten years plus total time. After arriving at PwC, we are working hard to learn PwC's audit method. After all, puhua is the top five in the world. I believe that such a company will certainly have the same precious company resources and corporate culture as it is in Anda mail. In the past, AMDA did not feel any pressure on merger, because you have to admit that strength is the final weapon of the competition. The only thing that has changed is that we no longer call AMDA.

I still live as before. In February July, I caught up with the projects listed overseas by Sinotrans. after just a few months of Idle Work, I started to work every day until five o'clock AM, I did not go to bed for 48 hours. I sat down from the previous day to the next day. When I got home and looked at me in the mirror, I couldn't even cry. So this project made me face the third crash after I chose this profession.

Now, I am conducting an annual audit for another company with a lot of problems. I am always faced with Morgan Stanley's review.

In this way, I continue my previous life, working overtime, sleeping, and working overtime. I spent most of my time with my colleagues. My colleagues have a simple relationship and a radical and hardworking working spirit, without andaxin.