How to deal with a college hire that is too excited to work? I’m a exp hire and she keeps asking for work even when we have tasks to do forcing us to work weekends while also making me look bad too.

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Have a conversation with her or management about your concern that she is going to burnout and shouldn’t be eating hours. The firm gives us work, but also preaches work-life balance and from an ethics & compliance perspective to report all of your hours.

Treat it like a developmental opportunity you identified rather than just complaining. State 3 facts and keep it unemotional.

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it’s unfortunate that this is happening but as someone who was like this at my first firm, i soon realized that WLB was so important to keep me sane. I realized that not investing into friendships and myself was gonna make me extremely unhappy and that work could not be my life. I’d say give it a couple of months.

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I don’t know if this would work...but get her to refocus on BD. There is always some MD/SM looking for prop help. Connect her with them and tell her it will help her career. So basically wave a shinier object at her.

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Smart.

Maybe feed off their energy and deliver greatness for the client.

Complaining about someone else working harder never turns out well.

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“She lies about not working as hard as she does. “

Say that out loud a few times, and tell me it is a good idea to complain or even feel like this is something you want to complain about

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By look bad it’s weird that I never bring up we need more work the Analyst does and even though we work weekends and evenings she lies to management and says things like we wrap up at a reasonable time/won’t bill full hours worked.

Are you and college hire on the same level? Trying to understand if she’s going behind your back to talk to management?

I’m an experienced hire one level above her but we are given tasks to work on together.

Find some sort of system where she can take up work. I was like this, work with her to find a solutionz

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