MBA Associate Really Annoying
Hi guys, I'm in a slight conundrum. I've been on the desk for a few months for a BB Tech team. I've generally had a positive time, however, I've found that my insight into the businesses we work with far exceeds many on the team who can only distill our clients down to numbers (can explain bill rates are low but don't understand their tech). This is fine, we are bankers and I don't expect the people on our team to be well-versed in all sorts of technology.
There is one MBA Yr-2 Associate who really is acting strangely though. I don't know if he gets insecure when he sees the VP, MD and I really get into the weeds of things on our weekly catch-ups, but he gives me the cold shoulder a lot and does not utilize me as a resource at all - and I'm talking dumb analyst work. We were staffed on a relatively low priority deck together and he made me work on a singular slide, that too just some minor formats. Other associates and VPs have me shell out decks, make different templates, visualizations, they still don't expect me to do major commentary but at least WORK me. On the other hand, this MBA associate is very happy to work with all the other first-years. He walks over to our pen and gives them loads of comments, slides to work on, things to do. This guy is smart, yeah, but like on a SWOT analysis level. He can handspread a company in seconds and make CapIQ formulas on the snap of a finger - however, I can't have an intellectual conversation about market trends or our clients that isn't a reiteration of Pitchbook, mergermarket, equity research that he's read up on in the morning. I'm just getting increasingly frustrated with this bizarre treatment.
This entire post may be odd and seem like I'm complaining about not getting work which I should not be doing, but the reason behind me not getting work is bugging me and this ASO's snobbish behavior is pissing me off because hes dumb asf. Not sure how to proceed because, I'm certain if I bring it up with ASO he will deny or find it absurd because there wouldnt be any 'logical explanation for it'. I also can't talk to VP / Staffer because this guy is clearly wanting to do banking for a while and I'm the newest on the team. Bitching about something like this and throwing my senior under the bus is something that I personally just cant do, but I don't want end-of-year reviews to be like : "yeah you did a good job but you didn't work on a lot of live stuff right? Also ASO says your performance could improve if you did XYZ". I'll flip the table and actually waltz to GS next door.
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