Confession: I intentionally sabotaged another analyst's work product and I don't feel bad
It makes me so mad to see so many people, myself included, grind our butts off to get into IB, and meanwhile some nepo kid gets the exact same job just because his dad is a client.
When asked about what he did over the weekend, this kid will talk about how he went to his parent's lake house, flew to Florida for a vacation, or some way to tell everyone that he is richer than us.
Call me petty, but I can't stand this guy and I'm going to do everything I can to destroy his career. I've gone as far as intentionally hardcoding just a few variables in his models when he's away from his desk. He got absolutely lit up by an MD for this last week when a valuation was materially inaccurate, and it was the most satisfying thing to see. He's spending most of the 4th just going through his models checking for other errors he think he made. Pretty sure he's going to be button bucket.
What an interesting way to cope…
Behavior from OP is the formula to successfully becoming a 7th year analyst
OP should be escorted out of the office more quickly than s/he was escorted in
Pray to god this is a troll post - stay in your lane man.
Your coworkers are so lucky to have you on their team!
you sin
OPs most vile characteristic is that s/he comes here to brag about planting errors in the other analyst's work, as if s/he wants 'credit' for this
I want to emphasize how fucked up this is. Calling you petty or sharp elbowed is being polite, you are toxic. I hope for your own sake that you get your envy in check and grow up.
For your own good you should stop ASAP before it is too late. Karma is real, either dealt by people or by the universe and there is zero way possible that this will not come back to absolutely destroy you
You are practically begging for him or the universe to get even in the future
Too much riff raff in banking these days.
S/he sounds so bitter and petty
Keep dreaming. You’ve done no such thing.
if you actually did this you would be caught and fired at any reputable bank.
I know this is most likely a troll post, but as an atheist, posts like this make me wish God was real so we could all get some judgement.
Assuming this isn’t a troll post, you’re probably one of those short, ugly, dorky kids that’s chronically angry that everyone else is better than them. If you can’t handle your emotions this early in your career, it’s only gonna get worse as you get older. Plus, people generally don’t want to work with angry losers with zero leadership qualities who can’t influence and lead a team. Good luck
In all fairness, OP's conduct definitely shows a go-getter attitude. A dork would stew in their anger and do nothing out of fear. If OP can channel these emotions to more constructive ends, he has a bright future ahead of him.
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People have this rhetoric while also simultaneously hoping that their own kids can one day benefit from the same nepotism down the line lmao
Comparison is the thief of joy. Control what you can and make the most of it. If this is true you're on a crash course to having a miserable life. Sounds like you're young enough to make a change. Everyone in this world has some advantage that another does not. Stop stressing about it.
You are unironically an awful person if this isn't a troll post. Congrats, you absolutely fucked this guy up because he's kind of a dick sometimes. Was completely sacrificing your personal integrity worth it to you?
I hope this is found out by someone on your team and you get a blacklist. I also hope I never work with you in my lifetime, because you are actually poison and are definitely a nightmare to work with.
I'll go out on a limb here and say, good for you. Fuck that kid and his ilk. His daddy knowingly stole a spot from another, more deserving candidate. People are calling you toxic and a loser, and that might be true to an extent, but I legitimately don't care. If we all collectively stopped rimming rich people's asses and realize we have more in common with each other than with nepo douches like your coworker, this country would be a better place. Meritocracy my ass.
Would you have the same opinion if he did this to a diversity hire?
There's definitely a lot more nuance with diversity hiring. Depends on the type. If it's a legitimately socioeconomically disadvantaged person that's a hard worker and hungry for success, then I'd object to similar conduct. If it's some Ivy-educated rich kid that happens to have the right sexual orientation or ethnic background, I'd be more ambivalent. But then you could argue that people of color/minorities have been historically disadvantaged so it evens out and so on and so on. Not as clear cut as OPs case.
First you're assuming the kid isn't qualified bc the crusty OP said so. Second, if they dad is sending 8 figure fees to the bank then hiring his kid is the smart thing to do. This isn't the MDs country club buddy that wanted a favor, this is a client of the bank. Sheesh you're a banker yet know nothing about how to bank. Third, you're assuming that an incremental seat wasn't created. Fourth, maybe the kid is in line to run a family business and will be a decision maker that also hires the bank one day, might as well train him up and try to get in good. Fifth, the job is incredibly easy so if the kid is intelligent even if he didn't prep as hard as other will pick the job up.
I'm sure one day if you end up having a good career you're no gonna not try to help out your kids to maintain your meritocratic nobility.
If you ever become successful I hope your kids fail
“Windows L” locks your computer while you are gone…. Just so you know from now on guys😂
Probably a troll, but the industry’s small so watch your back lmao
I don’t believe this for a second. this has got to be a troll post. Not that I don’t believe people can be this malicious and petty. I just hope better for humanity. If this post is for real I suggest you spend some time in self reflection.
Unfortunately behavior like this does exist sometimes - think there was an analyst who acted this way from my friend's group, and was called out by many
TLDR; OP is a sweaty awkward incel who has no friends and copes by sabotaging his coworker’s work out of jealousy. I hope you get found out and blacklisted from the industry. What a tool.
Did we all collectively miss the part where the coworker is a nepo hire? Can't say I find OPs behavior particularly mature, but I also struggle to feel any empathy whatsoever for the victim.
It doesn’t matter. You should be able to separate the morality of the act from the recipient. Intentionally fucking over not just the Nepo hire but by extension OP’s entire team is immature, childish, and plain gross behavior. I don’t care how big a dick the other dude is- this isn’t something a mature, normal fucking person does.
Notify the editors of the Oxford English dictionary, the word petty has been redefined to mean conniving ass bitch.
Must suck to have such an absolute tool on the team….and some rich nepo kid too
Rather than commenting an emotional response like everyone else, let me explain this to you. I totally get your mentality, and I have it to. I have humble backgrounds and see myself as better than those who grew up with a silver spoon, as you should.
But the thing is, he didn't control being born rich. He didn't control being spoiled by parents. If you were 'lucky' enough to be born rich, how would you feel that others sabotage you b/c they think it's unfair? You would be pissed.
Now imagine you grew up as you did, but in high school you befriended someone who took you on his private jet to a celebrity party. Are you trying to tell me you wouldn't talk about how cool it was with my your friends when you got back? And I'm sure your friends would be stoked, not start excluding you - that's woman behavior. This guy mentioning the cool things he does may come from genuine place of thinking these things are cool and wanting to share, and not letting the fact that he grew up rich and you didn't stop him from sharing, just to protect your insecurities.
I'm not going to tell you to stop because they do have an unfair advantage and I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a bit happy that some of these nepo babies are being fucked with and your helping the people who actually worked the hardest make up a larger percentage of the workforce.
But don't fall into bitterness because it's an unhealthy mentality. Just laugh when you see their softness and say in a playful way when someone mentions a story your jealous of "damn you lucky bastard, I hate you right now." That way him and everyone else will laugh and you can display that you didn't have a silver spoon while also building stronger connection with him and the rest of your coworkers.
You can continue being that guy in the corner of the party meme, talking to yourself about how they don't know the struggles you had to go through that they didn't. Or you can pick up a red cup, and start dancing on this rock floating through space and enjoy the time you have with everyone else.
Props for showing far more patience than I would’ve
Very well said and maturely put. Seriously OP, do this. There are better ways to go about this than turning into an office supervillain. Are you gonna blame your parents for not working harder as well since you weren't born rich, just as you're punishing him for his parents putting in the work and him benefitting from it? Wouldn't you be mad if you put in the work and tried to set your kids up for success and people started fucking with them because of it?
least insecure and morally dishonest banker
This, my friends, is why you always, always lock your computer anytime you step away from your desk. It’s a sad reality that this is what we have to resort to. You’d think people on the same team would actually be working together vs against one another, but apparently not.
Windows + L is the keyboard shortcut for reference.
Go ahead play this game if you want, but if someone starts to get an inkling you are intentionally sabotaging you will get fired, if someone isn't already trying to plant a trap for you or is gathering evidence. I've seen this behavior happen before, and it gets people fired for cause and that is not a label you want on your U-5.
I spent time in my life in a double wide community, before my parents both managed to recover financially. It's not an easy path to success vs some of my colleagues who went to Deerfield, Harvard, Uchicago etc. but I would never succumb to this type of action and plenty of wall street professionals will always have some sort of generational wealth. Being bitter or angry over it is just pathetic.
Also you may think you're being slick but if you have the arrogance to do this to someone and then brag over forums, it's definitely seeping into how others perceive whether you are conscious of it or not.
Best of luck...
Hi OP - honestly, this sounds like a pretty bad thing you did (not saying you're a bad person, obviously I don't know you, but referring to this specific act). I mean how would you feel if someone did that to you? As others have said, this kid didn't ask to be born rich - and maybe he is a douche, but this sounds more jealousy-related than actually disliking his personality. Also what would have happened if you'd been caught? Even putting aside the moral aspect of this, the risk-reward ratio is atrocious - you get a two-minute feeling of schadenfreude, at the risk of almost certainly being fired. So yeah really worth risking your career over (not).
More importantly OP, you are almost certainly going to run into these types of people your whole career - are you going to sabotage all of them?? And I'm not just talking about rich trust fund kids - speaking as someone with 10+ yrs of IB/PE experience, you will have obnoxious/less talented/lazy (or at least less hard-working) colleagues who get promoted ahead of you to VP/Director/Principal etc. You may have friends/colleagues who either strike it rich setting up their own business or buying some random investment, or just marry rich. Are you going to fall out with all of them? If so you're in for a tough time.
Don't get me wrong, I do understand the jealousy aspect. I've felt that way too - in my career I've had numerous colleagues who either came from rich families and didn't put in much effort yet somehow got the same bonus as me (probably because they were good at networking/appearances) or else people who got promoted ahead of me when it seemed like they were objectively weaker. But you just have to accept that's life - else you will likely end up a pretty angry/unhappy person (especially in a career as competitive as finance).
Not sure if OP is trolling or not, but this act also made his company weaker.
You don’t belong in this industry. Go work at TMZ or something, worm.
Most normal Stern alum
Bullshit story. I don't believe it for a second.
Going into someone else's model? How? People would see you if you're doing it at his desk. And if you're going into the file share system there's a record of that.
Also, the description is specific enough that the nepo kid would read this and quickly figure out its him.
Probably is a BS story, but working dynamics on a project can be potentially misaligned. Analyst 1 and Analyst 3 are working on slides, and analyst 1 shits the bed with all their slides and plants tons of mistakes and errors into the slides bc they may know others need to review anyways
Then analyst 3 and rest of deal team is stuck with a bunch of crappy slides created by analyst 1 that are riddled with errors and need to be revised
Jealousy can be a bitch - I'm thinking there's more to the story than what's described.
Maybe analyst 1 and analyst 3 had interviewed for the same position somewhere, and analyst 3 got the job through merit despite analyst 1 actually putting in a lot more legwork into networking for that position
At the risk of beating a dead horse
You’re a loser
Envy is one of the Seven Deadly Sins
I think most dislike obnoxious braggarts, and there’s plenty from every cut of cloth. The quote that comes to mind here is: keep your friends close but your enemies closer. Actively sabotaging is the wrong way to use these types of people.
Fuck it i’d do the same
It's weird the way this website treats diversity candidates vs nepo babies.
I've never had so many mixed feelings as in this post.
Main take aways:
Fuck nepo kids
OP is kind of a potential Joker/Bateman in the future
Fuck nepo kids²
Bateman was literally the definition of nepo lol, his dad owned his firm and he was a Harvard UG / MBA alum
I mean the psycho angle man
OP won't explode banks like the Joker too (hopefully)
Won’t change the fact that this guy is still rich af flying around vacationing. And you’re still stuck being a little bitch.
You're a gigantic come gargling bundle of sticks and I hope your career tanks faster than than a black musician that rants about the people of Judaism controlling their industry. You deserve no points. May god forsake your soul you pathetic excuse for a person. Undoubtedly bottom bucket material if this is how you cope.
Just curious 😂—what's the name of the black musician who had that conspiracy theory?
It's happened more than once... take your pick, open interpretation lol
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Everyone hates nepo kids but they also hate people like you even more
Never happened
Never happened. Ever heard of version history?
version history is only applied to online Excel docs and on top of that, if it were saved after the analyst came back, it'd be impossible to detect the changes. Only resolution for local files is a previous version of the Excel (like a v80 vs. v81) and a cross-comparison of the net changes.
Not sure about other folks, but with financial models, especially first passes, I would work offline until my self-review of it is good, and then put in online/give access to others.
Imagine if I were your boss and I'm here, also reading this forum. It would not take me a lot to put one and two together. So I will chase your ass and follow your every move. And when I see you're trying to sabotage another's job, I will put you in the spotlight and you will be escorted out of the building.
So stop feeling miserable for the disadvantages you now have, and focus on becoming a better person.
geez... whatever happened to just messing with computer settings. Man I miss the pranks of the good ol' days, none of this vindictive sh*t. It used to be changing the mouse scroll speed to interminable slow not messing with actual work product.
The next time I feel it's unnecessary to lock my computer every time I get up I will remember this post...
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