EY’s epidemic of workhorse, heartless employees

My best friend works at EY and has given nothing but 100% every day for this company. Time and time again they have told her that EY will “reward her in the end” even though going above and beyond has given her nothing but “meeting expectations” performance reviews and stress. She works 60 hours a week sometimes and barely has time to take a break, and is expected to be available on late nights and weekends.

She just came back from time off and has gotten very sick. Not sure what she has, but it’s severe. She told her manager who essentially said oh no that sucks, will you be available to lead tomorrow’s meeting? Also, you’re behind on your hours.

It’s not like he was saying those things because he had to plan for tomorrow just in case, that was quite literally the first thing he thought to worry about when she told him she’s very sick and not improving. No empathy or reassurance that it’ll be okay if she takes care of herself, just selfish concern for what that means for him and if needs to lead whatever meeting they have scheduled.

Anyways, my friend was hospitalized because her illness has gotten so bad and her coworkers care more about making sure work is done than seeing if she’s okay. They’re messaging her “Hi, I hope you feel better, can you follow up with the client?”

I will NEVER recommend any friends or family to work at EY after seeing how they have treated her. I work for a small tech company and this would never, ever fly there — my manager would never, in a million years, put my work before my health as his employee. The leaders of my team get mad if they know people are working while feeling ill. I can’t even tell you how many times my team has told me to log off because I wasn’t 100%.

Do better EY. This is not what a healthy work environment looks like.