Sensitive Interns?
How do you deal with interns and their fragile sensibility? I can't comprehend how they think they have any worth and ought to be embraced like the precious thing they are.
It's tempting to go 'toughen up' but if these people are good at their jobs, learn how to speak to them. If you shout at an Alpha male type he'll get pumped and perhaps even motivated but if someone is shy they won't. They may do their best work when you speak to them 1 on 1 calmly or ask for things in a much nicer way you would do with others. Learn to manage your people.
It's been true throughout history that each generation thinks the next is soft. Your perception is probably a bigger issue than their fragility.
Or more likely, people have just gotten soft over time. There is hardly a field or niche where this isn't case.
This is a a consistent perception becuase for the last 200 years each generation has had it easier than the previous.
I dodge them at every turn. I hate interns - they disgust me. But it's for slightly different reasons; I had to take the hard route into finance and have had and still have absolutely no margin for error since I don't have Ivy pedigree or a network of frat bros to support me if I fail at anything. So I agree with your sentiment but it comes from a different place.
However, whenever I am forced to interact with interns or anyone junior to me, I can't help but take on the role of a mentor. You have to see that these kids are often too easy to help. Think about that - the most minor thing you show them could be absolutely mind-blowing to them. I showed a new analyst a time series forecast and next thing you know, he wants to be a quant. Imagine the impact you'd have on interns if you regularly dropped some fire on them? You'd be "that guy" who they remember for quite a while for showing them the ropes when others would often leave them unattended.
But otherwise yeah, I agree, I hate those fuckheads.
I love how salty people are at you for saying the unadulterated truth in the first paragraph.
I can't see at all why that would make anybody salty. The only people who genuinely like interns are people with kids.
Deal with them like Bill Clinton dealt with his. Guarantee you it always works.
They are "summer analysts", treat them like an analyst and hold them to high standards to see if they make the cut professionally and are tolerable.
Stop youre making too much sense
No. He's making dollars.
I am with you. It has gotten so far beyond ridiculous at this point. In the last couple years I've been twice called into HR for speaking too honestly with snowflakes at work.
Personally, I don't feel there is a reasonable way to deal with unreasonable people. You can try, but don't waste a lot of time. People like that suck, plain and simple, and the best thing you can do is minimize your exposure to them and play the long game. Do anything you can to keep them from getting FT offers, including helping the mature interns succeed so they can crowd out the bad ones.
interesting observations.
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