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My old MD who was obsessed with The Smurfs could fill up a thread like this. Imagine getting yelled out for saying “bullpen” instead of “Smurf Village,” or having to call Sweetgreen, “Sweetblue.” Guy was a character. Hell of a banker, but a goddamn character.
I need a book full of this lore VP in PE I've been following the breadcrumbs of your comments for months
One time I worked 90 hours a week at Morgan Stanley and received a 40% Associate 1 bonus
A new analyst had to change the ink in the printer late night. He messed it up and ended up inhaling the ink fumes. Was trying to turn final comments and print the deck in extreme pain as apparently, the fumes caused a collapsed lung. Turns out he had to go to the hospital (unfortunately) and was unable to get on a plane for the next two weeks due to pressurization in the lung. Thanksgiving holiday was the following week so couldn’t travel back lol
MDs called the kid printer boy there on after. There is also a caution sign that someone put up above the printer now
Did he get kudos for working thru a collapsed lung at least
Nah no participation trophies
[This was in 2022] Hired an analyst, some 23 year old, definitely had a fratty vibe to him. Loved wearing golf polos, Patagonia vests, lululemon ABC pants, the whole deal. Anyways, my group was mostly a lot of new parents, office comradery was low. Never did anything after work, didn't necessarily feel like I was "friends" with anyone I worked with. Everyone just showed up, did their work, and went home.
This kid shows up, extremely extroverted, starts trying to plan after work happy hours, he revived our annual team offsite which he ended up planning a lot of the activities for. Was a huge success. One of the dinners was at Schroeder's (a german beer hall in SF) and he orders a boot, like a giant 2 liter boot of beer. Crushes the whole thing. The team goes to do an escape room after, he's blasted, starts ripping stuff off the walls, ends up finding stuff so we skip a ton of clues and get through the escape room pretty quick. In the middle of it though he left the escape room to pee, went down the hall and opened a random door and started peeing in a toilet. turns out the toilet was just a prop for another escape room. An employee comes flying down the hallway screaming at him. Afterwards he gets on the BART in the wrong direction. No one knows how he got home.
The next morning as part of our offsite we had a community service thing in east bay where we had to pull weeds out of a bike path. He's the first one there, looks perfectly fine, is pulling weeds out like a madman. Was just an absolute legend.
You would think his escapades would hurt his credibility on the team, but he was well loved. Turned my whole team's culture around. Never seen anything like it. Just naive confidence that paid off.
Good ole Dartmouth
This rings a bell: https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/off-topic/whats-the-worst-that-ca…
One time as an intern I was working late on a friday night to make this excel model that I thought would make me Jesus coming when I showed it tto my VP on Monday. I was the only one in the office at the time, but I hear the elevator noise go off and some footsteps. After turning my head I saw it was my MD (hella nonchalant) he pulled up to the office with a girl and a bottle of wine. I was sauced off a C4 and was absolutely trippin, but I don' think he gave a fuck I was there. I was young as hell and the girl actually smiled and waved at me like one of those "friends younger brother" kinda waves and I waved back. think I lowkey cock blocked him cuz 20 minutes later after going to his office he put the wine on my desk, said something like "don't stay too late" and dipped. Never knew what to think about that to this day. When I showed the Model to my VP he couldn't use it because he was using Excel stone-age edition and the =unique function wasn't compatible. When Holloway got flatlined by Topuria I finished that wine bottle.
Was working in office until late night and was one of the only ones there, got stranded because of elevator maintenance at 5 am
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