⭐ OFFICIAL 2020-2021 NBA Off-Season Thread: Olympics begin 7/23; NBA Draft 7/29⭐

[N41D]

Another man calls me a baby ***** to my face at work and we are stepping outside

y’all bugging out

Word...

"It's not meant to be disrespectful" .... COME ON MAAAAAAN.

Having said that - having spent a decade each in the public and private sectors, the private sector is significantly more over-the-top ruthless with silly, petty nonsense.

Only thing people respect is numbers and production.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

Not making excuses for anyone but that's just what you sign up for when you come into the field. I do think that Gen Z is not rolling with ANY of this though and things will have to change.

I am in a weird spot where I just took a new role but IDK if I really want to do this forever. I give it three more years before I make a move unless the comp really keeps me here.

That's how they keep people over there bruh. But it's the best one's who almost ALWAYS leave for greener pastures. Seldom do you ever see lifers. Unless they're promised to make partner someday.

Gen Z def has started to shake things up for sure.

 

[Based Jesus]

A core part of your office culture being active, open, disrespect, sounds unhealthy and unhelpful to me.

Had a supervisor like that. We all hated his *** and when he suddenly quit leaving the company without an immediate replacement for us, work actually went smoother with us in control of ourselves. Surprisingly, people actually wanted to come in to work and get things done. Who could've seen such a development?

The reason my mother stopped working for private law firms was because after she had me, a partner thought it was a good idea to tell the mother of a newborn she had to choose between her child and her job. She was still coming in to work and getting things done, she just wasn't giving them after-hours labor anymore because, well she had a whole human being to keep alive now. So she quit the next day. The other partners had no idea and apparently it became a big deal with him eventually leaving, probably not his first offense, straw, camel's back sort of thing, but you don't lose talent to stupid **** like that or burn out the talent you have over some ridiculous "survival of the fittest, your job is your life" mindset.

 

[nick.]

If being called a b**** is part of the job, I do not want that job.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

A core part of your office culture being active, open, disrespect, sounds unhealthy and unhelpful to me.

Had a supervisor like that. We all hated his *** and when he suddenly quit leaving the company without an immediate replacement for us, work actually went smoother with us in control of ourselves. Surprisingly, people actually wanted to come in to work and get things done. Who could've seen such a development?

The reason my mother stopped working for private law firms was because after she had me, a partner thought it was a good idea to tell the mother of a newborn she had to choose between her child and her job. She was still coming in to work and getting things done, she just wasn't giving them after-hours labor anymore because, well she had a whole human being to keep alive now. So she quit the next day. The other partners had no idea and apparently it became a big deal with him eventually leaving, probably not his first offense, straw, camel's back sort of thing, but you don't lose talent to stupid **** like that or burn out the talent you have over some ridiculous "survival of the fittest, your job is your life" mindset.

All this is very true. That's why you see some of the most talented folks leaving GS only after a few years.

 

[antidope]

That's how they keep people over there bruh. But it's the best one's who almost ALWAYS leave for greener pastures. Seldom do you ever see lifers. Unless they're promised to make partner someday.

Gen Z def has started to shake things up for sure.

My best friend who I grew up with worked here also for a decade and just left last week. That move more than anything really made me realize that this place isn't the apex, there's other stuff out there.

On the subject of family... Last year I wanted to get a dog, and I realized that my work schedule would not allow for me to get a dog. When I have a kid... I am GONE, I refuse to be an absentee parent and you just can't be present if you work where I work at. IDC what they say.

 

[N41D]

The reason my mother stopped working for private law firms was because after she had me, a partner thought it was a good idea to tell the mother of a newborn she had to choose between her child and her job. She was still coming in to work and getting things done, she just wasn't giving them after-hours labor anymore because, well she had a whole human being to keep alive now. So she quit the next day. The other partners had no idea and apparently it became a big deal with him eventually leaving, probably not his first offense, straw, camel's back sort of thing, but you don't lose talent to stupid **** like that or burn out the talent you have over some ridiculous "survival of the fittest, your job is your life" mindset.

This kinda **** happens all the time in the private sector...

My first job after I quit teaching was that way with my wife's health... Had to bolt one day to take my wife to the ER, turned out she was having a pulmonary embolism as a complication from her cystic fibrosis meds... Got a call that night from my boss saying I needed to be in the next day to handle my meetings. Told him he'd have to figure that **** out and I'd be in once I was comfortable with where my wife was.

I quit about a week later. Fortunate now to be where I'm at with the flexibility I have for everything family-related.

 

[amitt5504]

If being called a b**** is part of the job, I do not want that job.

Myrie when German Rondo called him a *****

 

[lovehateself]

ive called colleagues soft and even told them to put their big boy pants on

 

[nick.]

 

[DCAllAfrican]

Dame > Russ

Dame be stirring the post man but he gets a pass.

 

[niceshoes247]

Word to kuz

 

[DCAllAfrican]

THIS >>>>>

Man, the amount of defending his behavior in that Last Dance thread was amazing.

 

[antidope]

If being called a b**** is part of the job, I do not want that job.

I totally feel that. I try to be as transparent as I can with kids about how things move and how people get down here. Like if you don't live near your family, say goodbye to holidays at home, its NOT gonna happen. It really is crazy when you think about it.

 

[HIM]

I’ve been trying to tell you guys that playing in the NBA is exactly the same ss being a Walmart greeter. You ever see one of those greeters get in the ZONE? Checking receipts, highlighting, turning around snd greeting the next customer all in one motion. I know lawdog1 has

 

[tomdiginson]

I worked in an environment where the director called out a few cats on the team for slacking off on the job as well as with their career. I remember he looked at one cat and said to him, "these guys are younger than you, and they're more hungry and. They know more than you and they've outgrown you. You been in this **** for almost as long as me. What the **** are you doing with your life?". Me and some of the cats from there still keep in touch to this day and we all laugh about it. The dude was a true leader though. Learned a lot from him.

 

[smedroc]

Getting all flustered over an office job is the weirdest **** in the world to me Nobody’s life is on the line, if you die today, they’ll have somebody else doing your work tomorrow. It’s fake stress created by the culture within that company or dept.

Facts.

I’ve worked a super basic entry level office job in finance and **** was like getting picked up from 94ft

You need me to be signed in by a certain second, wearing a shirt and tie ANNND to pretend like i give a ****?

FOH

 

[lawdog1]

I totally feel that. I try to be as transparent as I can with kids about how things move and how people get down here. Like if you don't live near your family, say goodbye to holidays at home, its NOT gonna happen. It really is crazy when you think about it.

It is, but there are definitely some people willing to live that lifestyle, at least for a while. In the legal profession, it’s pretty well known that the giant, international law firms work their junior attorneys into the ground. They don’t even pretend “work-life balance” is a thing there. But people still sign up, despite knowing that, because they figure can they put pay their dues in for a few years, while making big firm money, and then be able to move to a better situation thanks in part to having that big firm name on the resume.

I’m not wired to take a job at a place I know from the jump I don’t want to be at long term. But others feel differently.

 

[Hank Scorpio]

My best friend who I grew up with worked here also for a decade and just left last week. That move more than anything really made me realize that this place isn't the apex, there's other stuff out there.

On the subject of family... Last year I wanted to get a dog, and I realized that my work schedule would not allow for me to get a dog. When I have a kid... I am GONE, I refuse to be an absentee parent and you just can't be present if you work where I work at. IDC what they say.

GS is not the end all-be all. You're worth way more than you're led on to believe.

 

[wavycrocket]

Ppl tripping on the KD **** . He was asked this question last year, and left Steph off. ***** played with a lot of great players. You forget sometimes. It is what it is.

 

[HIM]

excoriated

expiate

bereft

abdication.

You seem to have an OK vocabulary but you settled on called that man a baby *****

What was his reaction?

 

[antidope]

Man, the amount of defending his behavior in that Last Dance thread was amazing.

People give him too many passes for the crazy stuff he did, but I liked this statement. This was a pure "lead by example" moment.

 

[RustyShackleford]

If you call someone a baby ***** in the workplace, you deserve HR called on your ***

 

[kingfoamnyc]

I'm surprised someone hasn't put blood in that racist Hank Scorpio mouth already

 

[Hank Scorpio]

You seem to have an OK vocabulary but you settled on called that man a baby *****

What was his reaction?

Nothing. He laughed and then got REAL quiet.

Back story...the analyst was messing up a model the group was working on. He kept complaining how he's not understanding the sensitivities and multiples being used. I proceeded to tell him, "Move over baby *****, and let me show you where you're ******* up".

Also, another thing to mention--I'm a partner at the firm. I founded it with 4 other people I used to work with.