Wanted to get WSO's opinion on reading academic books in the office and whether it's ok or not. Obviously won't be doing it instead of working, but was thinking of doing some reading during slow hours / waiting for comments. My background is a stem field and I'm genuinely interested in the stuff so it would be something for me to destress with.
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guys the first year is acting weird againn
I’ve been doing it for about two years now and it’s all good
Completely fine if you download it as a PDF and do a split screen with an Excel sheet. I used to do that all the time during a slow internship years ago
I would not sit around reading a hardcopy book though. Totally get there's downtime but the last thing you want is some MD tanking your review because he "notices" that you just sit around the office reading all day (even if it's the farthest thing from the truth, if they see you a few times that's enough to leave an impression)
100%. I cannot emphasize the second paragraph enough. Perception is reality in finance, and some boomer who doesn't know your last name would totally make a comment (informally or formally) about you "goofing off" and "not working".
I also had experiences where my staffer would see me take a break for a few minutes and be like "oh you're free? let me staff you on this new BS deal that came in"
This.
just don't read any hentai type shit
Learned this the hard way
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