Tomorrow, you are your boss’s boss. What is the first thing you would do besides fire them?

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Give them a ton of non-chargeable work that they can’t delegate to anyone else and schedule semi-monthly meetings to discuss their low utilization rate and their personal plan to improve the percentage. In these meetings I would ask them things like: Why do you always seem so tired? I always see you here in the office and you appear to be busy, but can you explain why your utilization is so low? Have you been reaching out to others to see if you can work on any chargeable projects?

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tell the boss' boss to take a nice long sabbatical

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Teach some god damn people skills and empathy..this ain't a slabs trade we running!

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EY1 you made me lol

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Find the spreadsheet with comp for my whole team

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Ask him if hes "got a minute?" over IM, so he sits at his desk wondering wtf I want him for then when he entered my office I would tell him: "unfortunately we didn't hit our numbers and as a result costs need to be cut... I was thinking instead of head count reduction of the poor souls who busted their butt to cushion your K1 your going to have to give back 25% of your prior year salary so it can be allocated back to the ones who lived in the office the past year

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Be the bigger person. But, do have a little fun with it. Then press on.

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Take the rest of the year off and cash in on the firms books increasing by 60% this year.

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BDO 2 raises and Comp for directors and below sucked this year. Worst I have seen since right after Wolf pack mess. 4% base 5k bonus.

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Teach some of them how to sell work and make one of partners new omp

BDO 2 I hear you. Partner comp situation at the firm is messed up this year.

Hire them first.

Shit on them. Literally pull my pants and shit on them.

Ask them to do the vacation tracker

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