"Why I'll Never Work a Corporate Job Again" — Woman Says She Had to Ask Permission to Shower

“Tell me you worked for a big4 with out telling me you labored for a big4,” one person commented.

Apr. 22 2024, Updated 4:28 p.m. ET

TikToker Devin Raimo @devinraimo said that her former corporate job stored her and her co-workers on name all the time and anticipated such immediate, speedy responses to all correspondence that everybody on her crew had to inform one any other in their showering schedules.

Devin delineated a scenario that gave the look of one thing out of a dystopian future where corporations deal with human beings like robots with 0 margins for error or personal time. Individuals have been expected to be on-call for well beyond 24-hour shifts, with some other people even bragging about the truth that they labored on their own wedding days.

Devin says in her now viral TikTok: "When I was in college I got this job, right out of college that seemed like a really good job. And I knew that the hours were gonna be long especially at certain times of the year but everyone was like oh no it's not that bad. And at first it wasn't that bad like I would be working until like 10 o'clock and I was like okay that's not that bad."

The TikToker continued, "But then things got like really weird. All of a sudden we had a team check in meeting every day at 2am. And you would get assigned work during the check in meeting that you were expected to do right after the check-in meeting. It wasn't like oh now we're all gonna go to bed. It was like oh now we're all gonna like get started on something."

She went on, "So it just got like so weird cause we all had to tell each other when we were showering so that like everyone knew you didn't accidentally fall asleep so you would be like hey jumping in the shower or like someone would text your personal number and be like hey are you in the shower?"

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While the toilet status updates have been bizarre enough, she mentioned that what really despatched her over the threshold was what transpired with the corporate on her birthday, "My final straw was on my birthday. So it was a on a Sunday this past April and I said months ahead of time that it was my sister's wedding. I was like sorry I'll be like MIA that Sunday I have my sister's wedding and they were like, 'OH.'"

It did not appear to be the company in reality enjoyed the truth she would not be available for paintings. She stated that whilst she was once sitting and consuming at her sister's wedding ceremony, her telephone began "blowing up" with messages from the company.

"I'm getting all these calls and texts like my phone is vibrating non stop. I was like OK these people are like not OK. Like to like care that much that you're like calling me non stop at my sister's wedding?"

She persevered, "And someone was like yeah other people on my other teams work even on their own wedding day and I was like OK well then they're like truly not OK people so then I quit and I put in my 2 weeks notice and everyone was like OH it was so great working with you and I was like oh I'm gonna need like a decade to recover from this."

Many TikTokers wanted to know what was the character of the paintings that Devin was once part of that stored her on this sort of packed agenda where she used to be required to be on name all the time and as it seems, she stated that she labored for a Big 4 Accounting/Finance company.

These Big 4 firms are Ernst & Young, Deloitte, KPMG, and PWC, and there are lots of stories from other folks on-line who corroborated the "work is life" nature of Devin's put up.

YouTuber @Jess E TV mentioned that she regularly clocked in sixty five hours of work every week and would often cross previous 70+ hours per week at positive occasions of the year.

"Maybe I did like an 87 week," Jess mentioned of considered one of her weeks working at a Big 4 accounting company.

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