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PricewaterhouseCoopers Top 10 List Scandal

by Jordan Yerman | November 10, 2010 at 02:29 pm

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PWC Employees Investigated After 'Top 10' Email

Up to 17 male employees at the Dublin, Ireland office of PriceWaterhouseCoopers are under investigation after a "Top 10 List" of female employees got out into the wild. PWC employees were ranking the new female staffmembers, and the list was a work in progress by the time it went viral

The Top 10 list got forwarded around the PWC office, gathering suggestions and comments as it went. One thing the contributors to the PWC Top 10 List forgot to do: remove their signatures as they forwarded the email. N00bs.

These guys had clearly not learned the lesson of Karen Owen and her Duke University Fuck List. To spell it out, the steps for properly circulating a list of people you have had sex with or want to have sex with:

Don't.

However, that was too complicated for some of the Dublin PWC staff, so now PriceWaterhouseCoopers has a PR nightmare on its hands. PWC is conducting an internal investigation, which, because of how easy it is to track corporate email, won't take all that long.

To quote an earlier meme, PWC is backtracing the email, and consequences will never be the same.

The 13 women, whose pictures were accompanied by their names and departments, all recently joined the accountancy firm as trainee accountants or "associates" and are expected to train with the company for the next three years.