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PwC Accepts Responsibility for Losing Personal Records of Alaska Public Employees
- Caleb Newquist
- February 1, 2010
In Alaska news that doesn’t involve Sarah Palin, it emerged late last week that PwC lost the personal records of 77,000 public employees and retirees who participated in the State’s Public Employees Retirement System and the Teachers Retirement System in 2003 – 2004.
Alaska had engaged P. Dubs as expert witnesses in a lawsuit against its former actuary Mercer and turned the data over to the firm for analysis during the discovery process. PwC discovered that the data vanished in December and PwC notified the state last week (nobody wants to share bad news during the holidays).
PwC has accepted responsibility for the whole mess and has agreed to pay for identity theft protection, credit monitoring, and security freezes (if necessary) for the 77,000 employees affected. The firm will also reimburse any losses suffered by any of the participants.
The firm must have realized that there was little upside to disclaiming responsibility, as this would inevitably lead to a sentence in a Sarah Palin speech that involved PwC opposing God, guns, and regular Americans. Populist rancor would ensue and the firm would be run out of Alaska within a week (give or take).
This is the second SNAFU for PwC in the last month. The firm issued a press release on January 15th announcing that someone was sending bogus PwC checks to random people advising them that they had been selected to be secret shoppers. It’s not clear as to whether this is a sign of the wheels coming off or simply bad luck. We’ll keep you informed of any additional slip-ups.
State Acts Promptly to Safeguard Alaskans Against Potential Identity Theft [State of Alaska Department of Law]
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Bonus Watch ’10: More Evidence That Promotions at KPMG Don’t Pay Like They Used To
- Caleb Newquist
- June 17, 2010
From somewhere deep in the heart of Texas:
KPMG Dallas senior associate promotion bonus: $650 before tax. That’s down from $800 last year. Bullshit.
For those of you that don’t have a 10-ky handy, that’s a 19% drop. This correlates with the news from last month that the 1.25% for the summer bump and then a little follow up at fiscal year end.
Another source is seriously unmoved and makes an interesting point, “The bonus hardly pays for the charcoal so we can cook our Omaha Steaks.”
And just for the record, the freshly minted SAs get their new titles officially on July 1 but they should be comfortable correcting colleagues, family and clients for the next two weeks. Keep us updated.
UPDATE: Advisory out of NY chimes in:
KPMG NY Advisory Senior Associate announcements are being made by performance managers. Bonuses are a staggering $150 more then Dallas, thats $800 or 5.3% of the average salary here when annualized. I don’t dare think of what that comes to hourly with our SAS70 and Audit support busy season coming into swing.
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Sometimes You Have to Grin and Bear Life at Deloitte
- Caleb Newquist
- August 12, 2015
10:52 PM and going strong!! #CRAFT #DeloitteU pic.twitter.com/wstaRdsDNX — Life at Deloitte (@lifeatdeloitte) August 12, […]