Not in banking, but from the outside, it seems like interpersonal skills really outweigh the accounting skills. Many banks seem to offer strong training programs to learn the latter, but the former seems more ingrained. People mature over time, but if you can't be depended on from the get-go, or are tough to work with, I can see that being insufferable, or even unacceptable.
What types of people, or personality traits, are the toughest to work with?
Horrible communicators, especially when you can't have a discussion with them about anything because they will defend their argument to the death. Best option is to avoid congregating with those people unless you have to.
Coworkers who don't understand social boundaries. Nothing more annoying than when a coworker is standing right next to you in your space for no fucking reason, and is watching what you're doing.
Even more annoying is when you have a coworker that needs a fork/knife, so you offer them a spare because they forgot it a few times and you know how that feels.. But then they start coming to you almost every single day for a fork/napkin.
Definitely want to emphasize the first point. Working with someone who is unwilling to evaluate other point of views and change their opinion are horrible. It's very draining to work with these individuals and really damages productivity.
MBA Associates
Interned at 3 previous firms and worked 2 retail jobs, here’s a few:
Slackers
People with low emotional intelligence / social consciousness
Micro-managers
Try hards
Office perverts
Overly aggressive douchebags/assholes
Bimbos (might be attractive at first but you end up picking up after their slack)
Entitled rich folks
Those are about all I can think of rn. I’ve dealt with a lot of people in different environments and was forced to grow up pretty quickly, needless to say it’s been an interesting learning experience lol.
Business owners
Yeah, it's tough to work with business owners
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