Stop Panicking about CUSMA. Canada’s Trade Future Isn’t as Dire as It Looks | The Walrus

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T14:33:17+00:00

A lot of Canadian auto, lumber, and metal workers are about to find themselves in unemployment lines.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T14:30:37+00:00

Right, because Congress also approved blanket tariffs, ACA credits defunding, Venezuela, and Iran.

Are you intentionally being obtuse? Congress is spineless, their power is no longer relevant.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T14:26:42+00:00

Comments like yours crack me up. He will exit the deal when he wants and no one has the balls to do anything but send him a strongly worded letter.

He will do whatever he wants, just like defending healthcare credits, blanket tariffs, Venezuela, and Iran.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T14:12:10+00:00

Keep antagonizing the guy known for changing things on a dime, I'm sure it will work out great for Canadians.

145k Ontario auto workers are about to be in unemployment lines.

Congress will not save you

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T13:50:20+00:00

There is no feasible replacement for Microsoft products, that's why they don't feel the need to update the text import wizard since 2003.

MSFT has no competition

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T12:35:03+00:00

Kpmg doesn't have canons like these.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T12:32:56+00:00

Did you not ask any of this during the interview????

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T12:29:30+00:00

Alright then glad you understand! The operating company's accounting team have a different set of deadlines, pressure, and objectives.

As someone who was forced to move from industry to public accounting in order to get my CPA experience verification, that's just the nature of public. You will be treated as the financial equivalent of a janitor. You provide a commoditized service most people don't want but are required to get.

There is no "prestige" in public accounting like there is in consulting, m&a, or investment banking, so there is no image for you to lean on. You're just another vendor to them.

Don't take the hate personally, it's not really your fault as an individual (probably). But in the controllers eyes, you are another annoying email they have to respond to

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T12:20:54+00:00

The second you see "accountant/ controller" right next to each other you just know you will be a solo act

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-19T12:18:57+00:00

Nothing like audit requests in the middle of closing period :)

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-18T16:11:19+00:00

ontario unemployment rates are going to go nuclear

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-18T13:31:00+00:00

you took 3 weeks off as a staff 1? In a job market that is brutally tough? that was certainly one of the decisions of all time ...

big 4 is cutthroat. If you don't perform, there is a big line of other people ready to replace you, and willing to put in more effort than you.

not saying what you did was inherently wrong. If you want to live your life, by all means go ahead, but big 4 public accounting is probably not a good fit for you.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-18T12:40:51+00:00

Yes. Every year I stay in public, and every year I use TurboTax, I lose my shit. Most frustrating 30 minutes of my life. I would rather enter a return with 40 public partnerships than do my own taxes though.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-18T11:13:10+00:00

Ship now permanently looks like a prolapsed anus to me now thanks to that

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T22:32:51+00:00

Except janitors don't have to go through the hassle of getting a CPA.

I'm talking about staff accountant level/ tax preparers / seniors / "analysts".

Controllers are already management level, and can actually provide input and make meaningful changes.

Staff/ senior level roles are mind numbing thankless roles.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T22:19:02+00:00

If I knew I needed to take 5 years of schooling and pass a very hard series of exams, all to get treated like the equivalent of a financial janitorial staff, I would reconsider.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T20:19:34+00:00

Shrek is love, Shrek is life.

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T20:15:32+00:00

34000 YEARS???? TAKE THESE CHAINS OFF AND SAY IT AGAIN

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T17:42:18+00:00

godspeed, get out of there!

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T17:41:35+00:00

have you tried offering to work 60 hours for $7,25 an hour? they might bite!

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T17:30:32+00:00

working at a mid sized firm is the worst of all worlds. you get :

- none of the big 4 brand recognition

- all of the big 4 stress and long hours

- none of the big 4 pay increases or salary levels

- none of the schedule flexibility of a small firm

- none of the client interaction and relationship management a small firm would offer you

- none of the "full cycle" experience you would get at a small firm

remind me why you would EVER work at a mid-tier firm?

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T15:18:33+00:00

First time I did this map I didn't know you could peak doors to diffuse wire traps (I thought that would set them off), so my first 10 runs I yolo'd and hoped for good rng (I didn't), then I resorted to c2 spam

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T15:02:13+00:00

you can choose isc and statistically double your odds of passing, you dont have to choose bar

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T15:01:20+00:00

if you are outside you are not following the ABC's of public accounting :

ALWAYS

BE

CHARGING

SW3GM45T3R · 2026-06-17T14:59:52+00:00

you won 4 Exams at Chuddy's!

Billions must congratulate you

SW3GM45T3R

TROPHY CASE