What was the worst case of power trip that you’ve seen so far in your career?

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Reading above I am just thankful of who is around me. Those who mentor me and those who guided me. I mean it. I am very thankful I get to see the right people and good people. I hope I am never told how much.

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Thumbs for positivity. Lord knows PA needs more of this.

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One funny that I still laugh about whenever I’m running late for a flight. Team traveling. We’re all at the airport and they are starting to board but partner isn’t there yet. Partner texts all of us to say the driver was late and for us to ask the pilot to wait. We all look at each other because this is a commercial flight and well who does that lol. So we board, don’t say a thing and hope they make it. Partner runs on out of breath just as the doors are closing and thanks us all for making them wait. 🤣🤣🤣🤣

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No. I knew that partner well enough to know they were dead serious, came on board and was legit grateful.

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I just read a post on here about a senior who was throwing away the lunches the team was ordering with their dinner allowance and saving for the next day, because “it was against policy” to use dinner meal allowance for a lunch meal. What a efing psychopath.

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Wow-the leftovers? Sheesh, we’d just order two cheap meals that totaled within out allowance, and save one for lunch. I also worked at a firm that catered all the meal in buffet style, which everyone would eat out of (including those whose work wasn’t in a ‘busy season’) and then we’d let the staff take home to-go container of leftovers. Some of them were a bit shameless about it, like they’d bring home several meal each night and freeze them! We also got a busy season gift there, the whole office. And I’m not talking like a coffee mug, like a Columbia puffer vest, a jacket, one year a nice quality new suitcase-all with firm logo but still.

...writing this makes me miss that firm. Too bad my immediate managing partner was an immature man-child and I don’t suffer idiots well.

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My staff tripped over her charging chord today. Literally the definition of a power trip.

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Found Lil Wayne’s FB account

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I was a senior. I was working with a senior manager (who was acting in a partner role)

He was a huge arrogant ass and already difficult to work with.

We were discussing an issue. He made a conclusions statement and I concurred and said something like "I can buy into that" to show my agreement and support.

He looked me square in the eye and smugly said "I don't need you to buy into it"

Ie....my lowly opinion didnt matter

There was a partner who was so arrogant there were multiple urban legend stories about him.

The best....

A staff from a well to do family moved into a condo in the same building as this partner. The staff approached the partner to tell him they were neighbors. The partner looked at him and said "move"

Same partner had a reputation for only talking to managers and not seniors or staff.

Last story....supposedly a staff made a mistake. Partner pulled out his checkbook and looked at staff and said "how much".....staff said "what do you mean how much"....partner said "your final paycheck, how much"

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😦😭

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Overheard a senior get asked to write a memo. Response was “I’m a senior - I don’t prepare, I review.”

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I used to work with someone like that. She was always saying stuff like “I’ve been an acting senior since I was an A2 and haven’t done original work since then. I *don’t* do original work.” Like... congratulations? 🙄

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Dude that couldn’t distinguish his best interest v the company’s? And randomly tried to get consultants fired that weren’t at work at 2am to respond to his requests? Yeah, that guy was a blast to work for.

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How associates and senior associates talk to interns or my personal favorite, when partners want to motion you in to their office with dainty “can’t be bothered to get up and meet you” hand motions

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Seniors who take themselves too seriously. PS I’m a senior too :)

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Not me, but a close friend who also happened to work in public. She grew up in one city and was working in another. She had past with an SM in the city she grew up in (they met outside the company, just both happened to work at the same one). She wanted to move back, but he wouldn’t let her. If she tried he was going to essentially lie about her so the office wouldn’t want her.

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God that’s awful

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Staff 2 had slightly bigger desk than the rest at the client so it was the designated sharing desk when we had to double up. Would make staff 1 trade with him when we had extra people temporarily. This would literally be for a few days or a week or two at a time. We’re year round here so everyone has “their” desk.

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My director yelled at me VERY UPSET (everyone on my floor watched) about not responding/knowing about an email I wasn’t CC’d on. After asking him to forward it to me so I could help, he forwarded it with “FYI- you are responsible for this.” Honestly almost cried out of frustration and confusion.

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Dudes an ass.

Manager saying he was too executive to sit in on a meeting with client staff - managers.

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I have a director who refuses to find time on my calendar when she wants something from me. She makes subtle comments about catching me for “five minutes” (always turns out to be 30 or more) or expects me to book the time with her. It’s like scheduling a meeting is below her.

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Manager telling me what and what not to say to a partner before our meeting regarding our status 🙄

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I don’t see this as an problem. Sometimes what the staff thinks may be an “issue” is something common and has an easy solution to be fixed. However, the staffs inexperience doesn’t allow them to know this. Saying certain words in front of partners, especially towards the end of filing, can certainly stir up extra conversations that in the end are meaningless and just require a lot of explaining. You should be happy you get to attend those meetings, I know some senior folks who rather the 1 on 1 time with the partner.

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I worked for a partner who thought she was the most important person in the world. (Around the time the movie The Devil Wears Prada came out. A lot of similarities...). Once, her EA (one of her many EAs — she had a few over the years) threw a shoe at her! But my favorite story was when she had a meeting with the mayor and was late and kept him waiting. She literally tried to get me fired but the OMP liked me and knew that this partner was a crazy woman.

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Me - last week. The firm has a way of bringing out the crazy in everyone.

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Another story to add. Overhearing a staff 2 tell an intern that they are below them and do the shitty work.

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We had a step one meeting. The senior was introducing everyone in the room and got to the two risk staffs. Assurance Partner interrupted saying to continue and staffs weren’t important to be introduced. Risk Partner got pissed off saying that it’s very disrespectful calling staffs irrelevant.

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