What do you think is the lowest threshold of something you could do to get fired from your firm?

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I could stand in the middle of 5th avenue and shoot someone and not lose clients

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Lot of free time today to prepare a strategy to get fired?

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Throwing a haymaker at a partner

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It depends. At KPMG you'd likely have to murder someone; the ethical standard isn't too high.

I think they fire partners if they are involved in insider trading. It happens so often with KPMG I don't know if they are fired or just put on a PIP

^ and they do it for nothing

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