Fired if WSO leaked

Kevin25

do you never want to talk shit though? or you just keep it to yourself in order not to offend anybody? there are a lot of young guys on this forum. it's normal to have high level of testosterone and want to talk shit / be rebellious, etc. especially if you spend all day in a super safe environment of modern corporations where you need to be extremely nice and always think about not offending anybody. especially if you work with clients, i.e. do consulting or banking, you have to go along with the client and behave a certain way - don't you get tired or it and want to talk some trash after a day like that to compensate? also, do you find finance industry perfect? don't you want to call out something that seems questionable (like diversity hiring, recent layoffs and bonuses, facetime, constant empty pitches and presentations that take sleepless nights and add no value to anybody) in a place where you can do it without repercussions?

I'll admit, those are good questions and honestly almost super villain level questions. We may have a future Dick Fuld or Blankfein on our hands here folks. But in full honesty, yes, I do want to vent steam from time to time. And at least 95% of the time I make sure to do it with my friends not in finance/consulting as they share their's with me in return because there's no overlap for any of us. I bet I know way more about the IBM and CISCO network security apparatus than you do because of said reciprocity for instance. I'm also not some young hot head anymore but I get the idea you're alluding to. Take a trip to the local pub and spit wind about premier league  or UEFA with the English bartender and watch some hockey or basketball and it just seeps out of your system and you forget why you were so ramped up.

For the rest, don't talk s**t, do s**t because you are the s**t. Speaking of the magic word, DEI is bulls**t and means Document and Entity Information and anyone saying otherwise can stuff it. Take your ESG and shove it too. CSR was more than enough and came first. Should've built that up instead if anything. 

Calling out questionable things is a hobby of mine and pain in the rear end for others who just Picard facepalm and go "theAudiophile's at it again aren't they?" Breaking the SEC (I mean literally breaking EDGAR twice in one morning. Hey, it's last day of filing season so build it up and be prepared if you don't want theAudiophile to happen), mentally breaking the GC/IR team of a F500 company on their buyback and benefit plans, breaking a vendor's payroll system and making them have to address the technical issue? IANAL (look it up, and no it's not porn related you pervs), but breaking the associate GC and head of HR of another F500 by knowing more about certain employment law they should know is quite satisfying if we're being honest still.

Call me what you want, but you'd have a better chance of catching a ride on the carpet from Aladdin than any kind of flying you know whats I have to give in those situations. So no, I don't find it "perfect" in any sense and I will be disruptive where applicable to make people fix the issues and they can sit in their uncomfortability until it's fixed and working the way it's supposed to instead of making me do somersaults around the situation and getting invited to the games by the IOC before I can even put a band-aid on it. 

Edit: And to answer your other question, I'll play along with the client/management so long as it's not over the top. Simple things like font changes? Annoying for sure, but that's small potatos. Asking me to go back in and rewrite/rescript the entire deck and redo all the numbers in excel? You better have a damn good reason or I will come back and lambast you with the simple "Why? What are you trying to massage out of this information?" If it's some post-haste regulatory change, I get it. But just trying to butter things up with no substantiative change? Fine, yeet me off the project. Homey the clown don't care because he has principles and doesn't like silver hand-cuffs. Only the gold ones if you want to drop those on me.