Thats why I switched from articles to become an attorney to doing pupillage to become an advocate.But lets be honest, with clerks the bosses nor managers are that involved. It is your 2nd and 3rd clerks training there fellow clerk to grow.
They only doing what they were learned, its not like in the olden days where you found something of materiality you report. These days its like what is the amount compare it to the profits is it material i.e making a loss or profit is it affecting by this much margin... Nolets move on won't cause any damage kind of thing.
Take your ticking and bashing if you do a compilation you do not really care about income statement or balance sheet as long as everything agrees to the working papers cause there is no risk. The difference comes in if you take pride in your work you will treat a compilation as a audit and make sure you do random testing as well.
As a clerk the 'senior' clerk simply dumped crap on my desk so she could cherry pick her files. Now if there was any kind of quid pro quo (she had had an excellent senior clerk who helped her) I wouldn't have been as pissed but literally nothing (just crap files and a closed door). So I learned fuck all from the firm when I started.
Shifting to pupillage I had a pupil master who was insanely bright, an author, incredible at approaching cases from different angles and a good teacher. I basically relearned everything about law in 8 months. The bar I was at was small and there was a collegiality that was missing in the firm I was originally in. Funny enough its partly that collegiality that led me into publishing because I really enjoyed helping new advocates and attorneys so now am heavily involved in the creation of new products that are more practical in approach and not as academic.
