Associate complaint thread
Lot of threads complaining about VPs and Principals. I wanted to make one go complain about associates. Some of my top pet peeves:
1) Associates that refuse to check their email or come in before 10am (so I have to respond to all the partners’ questions)
2) Work from home means not being at your computer, never picking up the phone, responding within 2-3 hours, taking a 1 hour lunch
3) Putting nearly no thought into analyses, takeaways, commentary, notes always extremely vague
4) Constantly asking basic questions rather than making an earnest effort to solve the issue, looking at precedents, trying to google it (?!?!?), forming some potential responses and then asking
5) Everything is always riddled with mistakes but keep asking about why we need to “be so precise”. Yea homie 1 billion off when TEV is 10 billion is totally fine
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get off your high horse.
guess what, when you shove 100 hrs of monkey work to a junior each week, blow them up on comments, yell at them for eating lunch during the day (heaven forbid they take one hour sometimes), and basically expect them to have the same level of knowledge as yourself (who has been doing the job much longer) "Guys....this isn't that hard, why is this taking so long!" you will get monkeys who have trouble answering questions/thinking high level/formulating takeaways etc.
they came in after 10 because they were up till 3am turning comments from losers like yourself
they are not being super responsive to your emails because they are working for multiple partners/principals (you are not the only one asking them for things).
Go work in normal corporate america at a company. see how responsive and helpful the average 24 year old is there. most companies would kill to have someone who is willing to work at the level of intensity as a PE associate.
This is a great point gigachad
If you want to work in "normal corporate America" how does $70k sound?
Funny yet true. 40-50K starting isn't uncommon either even w/ a college degree. I sadly know from experience.
Damn… so how’s this thread working out for you so far?
Agree on points 3-5, but points 1-2 are so dumb and reflect your insecurities. Only insecure seniors/insecure clients create this mad rush to get things done and cause fire alarms when nothing is that urgent. The issue is that in essence financiers are insecure that they add no value so they scramble and work all day to show their value. The fact that you think it's a bad thing to take an hour to yourself to eat lunch just shows you have no life.
And before you go saying that without this, you can't be successful - take a look at Europe. Look at Spain and Greece. I don't really care if their economies are shit or the people are lazy. They have a tan, prettier girls/dudes, and are just happier than people like you are. Learn how to live a little. If you can't, work yourself, dont hold your juniors back from a normal life.
Women aren’t hotter in Greece have you ever been? In Spain I’ve only been to Barcelona and Ibiza. I agree Ibiza has the hottest chicks in the world but it was all models on vacation. Barcelona was good but it’s their major hub so if I compare to NYC or LA it fell short. Can’t go to Barcelona and compare to random towns in Montana
okay dude but that nonchalant attitude and focus on self still lets them pull more than a hardo - point is a balding VP is not anything I want to strive to be
lmao greece is a shithole and Spain has not accomplished anything since the 17th century
and what have you accomplished since the 17th century, mr. pe associate
what until you're in their position, you'll understand when you have a bunch of noobs constantly asking you noob questions
It’s nice to see so much hate not directed at me for once.
It's only a matter of time lol. We are universally despised by those above and those below
IB is like a bunch of birds perched on power lines. Look down, it’s full of shit. Look up, full of assholes.
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Maybe I should be an associate in ib lol
You must be a fun guy to hangout with
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