Forced WFO, Entitled Partners, Outdated & Ego-Driven Reality
Pros
Salary comes in on time (as expected). You’ll get very good at commuting and sitting in traffic. Great place to learn patience, silence, and how not to question authority. Builds character, mainly through stress and frustration. Free air-conditioning and electricity Teaches you how corporate ego works at its finest.
Cons
KL office: Most out-of-touch, hypocritical workplaces I’ve experienced. Management is obsessed with reputation and optics. Everything is about looking good externally while internally employees are exhausted, ignored, and disposable. Classic “Big 4” behavior. Bonuses are constantly suppressed with nitpicking excuses, yet the firm proudly announces billions in profit every year without irony. The 5 days WFO mandate is beyond stupid. You force everyone into the office daily but don’t even have enough desks. Staff are required to show up yet still have to book hot desks like beggars. Make it make sense. The aggressive anti-WFH stance is one of the biggest red flags. We already proved during COVID that WFH works. Productivity didn’t die. The firm survived just fine. So what’s the real reason now? The excuse of “encouraging social interaction” is fake and insulting. Forced physical presence does not equal collaboration. We communicate, attend meetings, and deliver work perfectly fine when remote. If the work is done, why do you care where employees sit? Are you upset staff aren’t using the office electricity or just uncomfortable not being able to physically monitor people? Not everyone is rich like partners and upper management. If coming into the office every day is easy for you, then you do it. Don’t force everyone else just because your privilege makes it convenient. Many employees waste 1–2 hours daily commuting, stuck in traffic or packed public transport, for absolutely no added value. At minimum, hybrid should be standard. Banning WFH entirely is backward and brainless (which you all are) Parking is another joke. Building parking is expensive as hell, and external parking is always jam-packed. You demand physical presence but make it costly and stressful to comply. Partners are insanely entitled. Whatever they want must be done, no matter how unreasonable, purely because of their title. Logic and practicality don’t matter. There’s an unspoken rule that partners must always be respected, even when they’re clearly wrong. You cannot push back, disagree, or speak honestly without risking retaliation. Partners are treated like untouchable gods. They can escalate complaints, damage your reputation, or quietly make your life difficult just to protect their ego. This creates fear, not professionalism. Employees are constantly rated, measured, and scrutinized through KPIs, yet there’s no meaningful upward feedback. They can rate staff, but managers and partners can’t be properly evaluated on leadership or competence. Accountability only flows downward. Benefits are embarrassing!! RM300 for BOTH dental and optical while the firm makes billions? One pair of glasses already costs more than that. This is not “competitive benefits”.. it’s insulting. Instead of fair bonuses or increments, employees are given fake appreciation like dinners with increasingly worse prizes every year. Pure PR, zero substance. Important policy changes and rules are poorly communicated. If something matters, communicate clearly via email. Employees are not mind readers. Overall, this company expects loyalty, obedience, and sacrifice, but offers little flexibility, respect, or genuine care in return.
