Horrible bosses
What’s your advice on dealing with the people whose goal is to make your work life miserable? I’m trying to keep as positive an attitude as possible and not take it personally but I’m gonna reach a breaking point soon enough if things keep going on this way.
I overall like my work and the majority of my group, so I don’t think I want to leave the firm or switch groups yet. However, I think I need to develop better strategies when dealing with person X, who is an absolute nut case and seems it make it their mission to constantly lash out at me over the smallest of things and make me feel small / a bad worker. Do I confide in other people in the group? Push back a bit? Or just try to align my way of thinking and how their words affect me.
lateral or transfer to a diff team.
I don't know what bank you're at and if it'll be a prestige stepdown but lateral to Barclays or RBC if you value working with nice people. Full disclosure: I'm currently at one of these banks and my team leadership are very friendly and reasonable.
Thank you. I'm actually at one of the places you mentioned lol. Believe this individual is an anomaly since everyone else I work with is pretty pleasant and reasonable.
Very interesting but on the upside, you're a simple lateral transfer away from a nice team. This job is hard enough without working for toxic people, I (like everyone else), have been chased by seemingly every bank under the sun to lateral for the past 1.5 years but it's just too risky to give up my pleasant team and head into an unknown quantity even if pay is 10% higher.
Thank you, you’re absolutely right. When do you think will be a realistic time frame to actually lateral? I’ve been on the desk for about 8 months now.
probably needs to be a year, but you should be meeting people for casual coffees in groups you like. don't just randomly go to your desk head and tell them you're interested in lateraling...you just want to make sure they don't try and block that (even though it would be petty and discouraged by HR)
go to Barclays, unironically the only bank that has decent human beings across all groups lol
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