Not meaning to disappoint you fullforward, history speaks for itself and not for me. Ask those who have worked there or before with this management team and you will find that coercing is part of their management style at the cost of your job.
So don't fib me about rejection, EY is not this wonder place you paint it and everyone knows it.
Perhaps you need to look closer at your girlfriend and regardless of how honourable she maybe when coerced to deliver at the cost of you losing your job and having to sustain all the trimmings of "unknown" pressure before hand.........You will realise then that money and package you went for is the same the will use to squeeze life out of your a@se.
Instead of gloating about rejection, I would actually be keeping an eye out for any action!
Jeep smiling!