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The amount of money you can potentially earn might even bring out cartoonish dollar signs (or rupee signs) in your eyes, but really it's an elaborate trap. It's a drug used to make you forget your ambitions. Due to lifestyle inflation, status, and show-off culture, people borrow money to buy cars and homes, keeping them in debt and forcing them to continue working to maintain their lifestyle.
Sometimes we are also forsaking family and friends to chase that high. I have missed out on so many family events, worked during my brother's marriage (not just on that day, but literally during the ceremony).
Get this - this is being LET OFF EASY compared to the shit I’ve seen at my time at another shitty ‘top tier’ law firm, working in arguably one of the most toxic teams in the firm.
Constant negative feedback on any reasonably completed work product, unclear instructions, straight up gaslighting, and playing the associates against each other - just the highlight reel of tactics that these lowlifes use.
But the worst thing is being yelled at in office. It doesn’t have to be actual yelling. Just constant public and loud enough scolding, questioning and gesturing etc.
I genuinely hope that Karma is real, and these guys get what’s coming to them — sharp ans long lasting pain and suffering that makes them unable to enjoy all the blood money they’ve accumulated by grinding people down. Really, these people are white collar slavers. Partners and mid levels alike.
How do we even start to turn this around?