Dunked on my Manager and it felt good
Wassup peeps. Slow day so I’ll give a little story time. Hope to give others hope in light of layoffs and toxic work environments they may be facing.
Left a toxic team where from the start I was entirely isolated, ignored and told to look elsewhere for lower level roles. I was entirely made redundant. My manager would constantly berate me in-front of colleagues for no good reason and would not allow me to sit with the team. Just imagine your alarm clock going off unexpectedly at 3am when you’re deep asleep…. I had that feeling almost every interaction with my manager. I literally had to show my manager/ team how to use Zoom, shortcuts and basic Microsoft Office although they’ve been working 15+ years. I’d always hear them crap on bankers and how much money they made. Meanwhile, they remained complacent.
I eventually ended up in IB which I was honestly planning to go to business school for. My current team loves me and I’ve caught the eye of my group head.
Long TDLR: Always be nice to people. You never know who they’ll be one day or if you may need a favor from them. Don’t get too caught up in your managers/teams unwarranted perception of you. Most often this criticism comes from a place of insecurity.
Have you ever dunked on someone?
Nice read. Ngl, have been struggling with the unfair criticism. Good point to note that it comes from other ppls insecurities.
Good job bro! The feeling is amazing and I've experienced it several times.
I did my first internship at a MM bank. I was frozen out from the team because I was not from the city and did not go to a target. People would literally just say "oh" and then walk away when I said which school I went to. They didn't ask me when they were going for lunch, didn't invite me to after-work events, gave me made-up bullsht tasks in the middle of the night with deadlines the next morning etc. However, they always invited the other interns (who were from targets and had plenty of friends in the city since before) and told them to go home early while giving me some bullsht task. I was nothing but nice to them and tried really hard to get an offer. At the end of the internship, they didn't give me a return offer and said it was because I hadn't made enough of an effort to "fit in".
I was crushed at the time but later ended up getting a full-time offer at GS. Suddenly the people who shit on me during the internship added me on Linkedin and wanted to "catch up". Completely agree that it comes from other people's insecurities and I'm afraid that there are quite a few insecure people in banking.
This is a great story!
Comical that these people have no shame given how they treated you. Lol.
Im really happy for you.
No shame at all. I also just struggle to understand why they would treat someone like that simply based on what school they went to. They also made a huge difference between full-times and interns. We would get comments such as "this table is just for full-times" or that "it's just the full-times going for lunch". Well done, you went to a good school and got a job in investment banking. That's not a reason to treat people like sht.
Totally agree. Some people still need to put others down to feel better about themselves into adulthood. Pretty pathetic in my opinion and idk how they’re not aware of it
Since you’re anon, mind sharing the bank name, so I know what to avoid…?
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