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Originally Posted by sebastian_dangerfield
You work for insecure losers. Lemme guess... Most of upper management has personality defects, or shitty home lives, or they’re bitter nebbishes, or all three at once?
The plaintiffs’ sector of the profession attracts angry nerds and diminutive people who can only acquire power by using a degree to beat money out of others. I did a year with those kinds of assholes and honestly couldn’t stomach them. Such defective people. I don’t know how any decent person survives being immersed in those personalities every day.
But their days of commanding people to come to the office to fluff their egos are ending. Same is happening in finance. The people who abuse analysts and associates are going to have a hard time getting them back into the offices and forcing them to engage in performative work.
I never understood the attitude of making employees subject to needless abuse or busywork as a form of hazing. It is deplorable to abuse a worker just because you were abused. Work isn’t a frat house. Workers don’t need to be treated like pledges just to “make their bones.” If you instead treat them well, you’ll find they perform better and make you more money.
I’ve had two bosses get in my face. I closed the door and confronted the first with “What’s your fucking problem?” We had it out and things got a bit better. The second I told to keep his bonus, and resigned leaving him high and dry with a bunch of trials to handle which I knew the facts of and he didn’t.
If I could have it to do again, I’d instead punch both of the fucks in the face.
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My place is more the passive-aggressive model.
"Icky, you aren't in the office, we're all worried about you . . . is everything OK at home?"
"Big boss man is walking around and noticed that you weren't here. . . I didn't know what to say."
"Let's discuss it next time you are in the office."
