Intern fucked around, might just find out
I'm in a small office of a fund with decent AUM. All the assocs here are generally very soft with interns and we tend to cover their mistakes, actually teach them, and not expect to figure shit out themselves.
Our interns used to walk out at 6 waving bye to us - they didn't get much work because we generally tried to outsource grinding work to bankers + their capabilities weren't up to standard and alot of things were just easier to get done ourselves
We were saying that we should do smth about this but none of us are really assholes so no one did.
Enter our new intern, who is admittedly being worked slightly harder but generally getting off at 7. Recently he picked up a habit of complaining that he was overstaffed. He was complaining to me about his workload although I wasn't even trying to staff him.
Then I find out that he'd been complaining about X,Y,Z to A, then complaining about Y,Z,A to X. Genius didn't realise that the assocs will talk to each other. We also find out stuff from senior people. The upshot is that he tried to claim that my work was the most unreasonable and checks notes I hadn't staffed him on anything in a few weeks and generally give him the least amount of work because it's not something he can really help on.
To give an example, if I ask him to do desktop research, my rule is 10-15minutes and then move on / tell me can't find it.
I know why he is doing it - finance is pretty dry, alot of junior work is grunt work, and he thinks that he has found the political cover to lob this bomb at me. My work doesn't give as much visibility to the people he thinks are the hiring managers, so he wants to only do work that he thinks will get noticed. And he apparently really wants this job.
Well, I was going to bat for him, and now I'm going to stay silent on his review. Instead, I'm going to help him.
I'm going to revive the idea that he should have a publicly shared timesheet. That way prioritization is clear and we all have oversight over his tasks and his efficiency.
After all, we wouldn't want to overwork someone like that.
His political cover also counts for shit because he doesn't realise how our managing partner runs the office - if he complaints about someone (ie. me), he will actually have his "facts" relayed to me by the partner. That's just how the partner rolls.
Just to be clear, this master plan of yours is all about an intern?
Lmao my first thought. Like either ignore the 20yo dipshit or tell him to stop fucking around or gtfo.
Lmao
We have interns to and they can’t do the most simple basic shit without making mistakes. We’ve tasked our intern with one task to do on a weekly basis. He’s been doing it for 3 months. Simple data entry. Still many, many errors. No initiative to look something up and search within the document themselves.
If I were in your shoes, I would be concerned that I have so much free time that I'm coming up with various schemes to try to make an intern look bad and that you feel the need to complain about an intern to your managing partner.
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