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The life of a User Acceptance Tester for Ernst & Young at the SDC of Jacksonville. Coming into this position I believed I was aligning my career with a Big 4 company that could help guide me to a long prosperous career. The SDC did the exact opposite. It may be the most corrupt useless place for a company with such a great standing in the world. I will be referring to EY as “Real EY” and the “SDC” separately to establish the difference between the two. The SDC may have EYs name over it but you are treated as if you are a subsidiary. Before I begin with the scenarios, let me express, that the people you meet in the crappy situation that is the SDC are the only reason worth going to work. They will be all shapes of people. Some extremely intelligent people who got tricked into thinking they got a job at Real EY. But, also people that have art degrees that don’t know how to operate in a normal functionable manner. You will find a happy medium of the people that will express the same displeasure for working at the place. You will laugh and cry together, dreaming of your year to be up so you don’t have to give up some of your signing bonus for leaving. This people will accompany you to the local watering hole that is Bee Bar (Applebees Bar 2 feet from the office). Find these people the second you start working, it will make the next part that I am about to explain less miserable. Your time at the Service Delivery Center can either go one of two ways. You either sit on the bench, which is where you are bored till the end of time and you just stare at your computer screen, praying for it to explode. You will get excited just to receive an a skype message or an occasional email, proving to yourself that you are actually employed. There will be days you think if you jumped out the window; would you survive. And, honestly this is the best situation, because you collect a paycheck to do absolutely nothing. You can really utilize this time to do whatever. You can work on developing your career for a different position not at EY. You can watch every episode of Game of Thrones 3 times. The possibilities are endless. The other situation is you get worked like a horse. Often, we referred to these select individuals as the “Show Ponies”. They will be worked till you can’t stand the work load they are tasked with. They will be doing the mundane work that a monkey does. But, they will do the same exact work as a normal Real EY employee but, don’t ever think you are equal. You will be working long hours, leading meetings, and working weekends but, your salary will be grossly less than Real EY employee doing your same role. You will have interns working at Real EY making more than you if you are a straight out of college. You will be directing people higher ranked than you, and they will be making way more than you. Oh!!! You want to stick around for the chance at being promoted to senior. This process could take 3 to 7 years. The three-year chance is if you really, really, really, really get lucky, and you are also a great worker on top of it; to possibly get skip promoted. It will usually be 7 because in the SDC there is a fake position called Analyst, which is a rank higher than Associate Analyst. This Position is not in real EY but, is present in the SDC. Here is where the SDC makes their bread. You do the same role as a Senior, but you lose your overtime, you don’t get a bonus, and this stage has an undisclosed amount of time before you are promoted to senior. So, they work you overtime and now you make less money than when you first started (The interns are still making more than you btw). So now you get promoted to senior in the SDC. Your salary has slowly grown. There is associate analyst in the SDC and interns in Real EY making more than you still. Real EY seniors in a similar geographic location are making 25 k more than you and only took them 3 years guaranteed. DO NOT! I REPEAT, DO NOT BE THIS KID. You thought you could avoid this whole situation and transfer to Real EY like they said you could do after a year of tenure. Yeah, well you can’t. The leaders of the corruptness that is the SDC, is Higher Ups of Management SDC. They have teamed up with HR, to make it nearly impossible to transfer out. They will say “Oh yeah, for sure bro we can arrange that”. Lying to you every second of the way. They recently just announced, you can only move to Real EY after making senior. So you will be waiting longer than a year. GUARANTEED! You will get thrown through a ringer to have a 3% chance of getting out. And if you are a lucky person that made the right connections to get out. Since you came in at a grossly low salary, they will be able to justify paying you 20k less than everyone in Real EY when you get there. Why, you ask? Because never forget you are an SDC PONY and you will never be anything to them.