Any crazy stories of coworkers trying to out-perform their peers? What have the absolute killers done to out-grind their colleagues, kiss up to seniors, and attempt to stand out (or embarrass themselves trying).
I knew a kid who would routinely set emails to send at 3am. Another who offered (on a team-wide workflow call) to revamp the group's file structures...an MD laughed and told him that was admin work. The hardest hardo I knew took "first in and last out" seriously, always asked for more work, and washed out about as quickly as one can.
One guy I knew was the biggest fucking hardo ever. He was so crazy, to get ahead in life, he seriously considered... getting a job at Moelis. But even he realized that this was too crazy and went to Shittybank instead.
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Citi bank?
knew this other analyst on deal team that was super insecure
one time I checked and sent a link to the backup folders to a working group email chain and asked for an analysis that was missing; 5 minutes later he quietly transfers the files to that folder then resends the link to the chain and says yeah it's in there no? (keyword 'no?').. no big deal probably brain fog
he got staffed on another situ and I offered to temporarily help with his 'admin' workstream; obviously everyone is getting staffed left and right-- when I asked him to take that workstream back he said why don't you continue since you're a master at it alr; eventually forced him to take it back (had to flag to assoc, like wtf?) but just surprised how he bit my hand
few days later he was working on a rider and he fucked up big time footnotes on a few pages; Associate goes mad as this isn't the first time and instead of claiming fault he said WE will fix it and WE should have checked it better. no big deal (and obviously my fault for not checking thoroughly) but at that point was sick of this snakeyness
flagged to staffer and his line manager but obviously he can't give two shits given how 'secure' our jobs in this environment
he's not getting ahead per se but he's definitely getting away with a shitty attitude
Always tough dealing with people like that....eventually they are exposed.
There was this one guy who was obsessed with face time. Wannabe hardo who wore a Pierpoint branded patagucci vest. Would often stay late, pop some pills and ask if he could "take a look at your model". Think they found him sleeping on the bathroom floor one day.
Why is this getting M.S ?, isn't that the plot of "industry" the show
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