Intern I’m working with is offline every night from 7:30pm to 9:00pm to commute home and eat dinner. Does not respond to messages or is extremely delayed responding during that period (or sometimes just replies “confirming receipt - will address after dinner”). What is an appropriate response?
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Best response is to tell him he's not allowed to go home or eat dinner
Your post is everything that is wrong with this industry
Care to elaborate? I’m all for promoting Work-Life Balance, but 90 minutes offline? I bet you would not do that…
He does get back after dinner right? So he just stays up later I imagine… There’s interns who check out at 9 and now that’s actually bad
“Sounds good”
This made me laugh because this is the obvious correct answer in substantially all situations, but it is clearly not what the poster wants to hear.
I hate you op srs
Surprised people are being so critical (against me). How long do you take to eat dinner?
As long as the intern is being reasonably responsive (confirming receipt feels fine to me), gets the work done, and understands when things have a higher degree of urgency, I see no problem. What constitutes an “extremely delayed” response? Within 60 minutes is all good in my mind and even a little after is not a big deal. If this is truly causing an issue where it’s keeping you up waiting for deliverables, then could be worth a quick discussion on communication.
From what I can tell (hard to tell because her Teams status is the offline X), she leaves her desk around 7:30pm. If I ping her, at 8pm, she will not reply until maybe 8:30 (sometimes later) with an extremely brief “confirming receipt.” Based on the fact she will not complete the task assigned ant 8:00pm until 9:30 (for a 30 minute task), this implies she is offline from 7:30pm to 9pm.
Lol man getting punked by an intern
You seem to be quite a delight in the office! I hope the rest of your day is as wonderful as you are :)
Ppl like you suck
90 minutes offline outside of prime work hours to commute and eat is perfectly reasonable, get a life. I hope I never have to work under a bot like you.
The poser just reminds me of how IBs have a phenomenal indoctrination program. Why are you expecting healthy working environments? That's not what banks are about.
She's in the right, especially if she's getting to it afterward and regularly staying up till 1am to handle the asks. If it's not critical, 90 minutes isn't going to make or break anything. These are not core working hours and you even said this is during a commute + to eat dinner. Holy moly dude get a life. This is why people dislike bankers.
based on these responses you can think critically and tell you’re kind of wrong here – give her a break, no deliverables are due at 9pm and if she’s working till 1am anyway then she’s clearly doing her job. relax a little man
The person is a human being and deserves time that is not connected to the office. The person is only asking for disconnected time while commuting and eating. This is NOT too much to ask.
You’re a dork
If it's truly critical, time-sensitive work on a live deal, have a conversation ahead of time to set expectations - although you may also want to reconsider using the intern for something that important. Pretty much everything else can wait until 9pm. As long as she's actually doing her work, and it sounds like she's responding within 30 or so and logging back in every night and doing it, then I see no issue with this.
I’m willing to bet this intern also sleeps a few hours without checking his emails. This is unacceptable.
Who cares, this person has the skill set of someone who has worked for 6 weeks total, what could she work on that you as an associate wouldn’t be able to do
He desperately needed her to center two logos in MS PPT. Definitely was urgent.
"What is an appropriate response?"
Unless there is work that needs to get done in that time (which is effectively never actually the case), the correct response is for you to not be a toxic coworker.
I love it when ppl fall for troll posts
Honestly!
Yeah relax, it’s an intern. When I was an analyst, I once had an intern throw a full tantrum at me for taking a 1.5 hour dinner bc she couldn’t figure out how to make a freaking line graph lol
The girl who cried wolf
Taking a hard look at yourself in the mirror and questioning what life decisions led you to being the way you are is a start
What an asshole, what makes him think he can just eat dinner!
"thanks, enjoy your dinner!"
The lack of self awareness is unbelievable for someone who clearly isn’t that unintelligent
I don't even work in the goddamn field, but just doing basic arithmetic math, I can tell the intern probably put in ~10+ hours before 7:30 PM and 4 hours after this period. Seriously, how deluded are you in thinking non-urgent miniscule tasks requested at the 11th hour demand immediate minute-by-minute turnaround?
Are you just that unfamiliar with how the human body works in areas of fatigue, hunger, and needing to take a sht or have you just been so dissociated from non-work interactions that it's now become a foreign topic for you?
I swear... every time I think that the field of IB is exaggerated with its antiquated and aged culture, I see folks like you who remind me why I never bothered to pursue this line of work. Oh, and to get back to your question of "how you would respond", how about a "thanks for confirming" instead of wanting to bite the intern's head off during evening hours.
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If anything, the thread reflects poorly on your ability as a manager. If something was truly urgent, you should be asking them to stay in the office and finish before heading home (or at least figure out a contingency plan, e.g. having an analyst cover). You're the one shitting the bed if something goes wrong because the intern was away from their desk for 90 minutes.
Hope your get bottom bucket again, ahole
Is the success of your workstream predicated on summer analyst lol? I mean if he is holding up things that are assigned to him then say that but if you mean you just want to converse with him then wait till he’s online
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