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My boss made me cancel tickets for a vacation I had planned with my friends to Thailand ( I have changed country for privacy).
I am 3 PQE in a tier 2 law firm, capital markets practice. I had booked a trip with my friends to Thailand, for this weekend + 3 days to celebrate a couple of friends' birthdays and the third one's bachelors all in one shot. It was supposed to be an amazing group trip of amazingly close friends.
All my friends on this trip, barring one, work in T1 firms.
I was supposed to leave on Thursday Evening, this trip is pre planned, and my boss knew about it for the last couple of months. Boss even asked me to get them some souvenir for the office.
Today afternoon the Boss comes and tells me to cancel my trip as we have a filing on Wednesday, and they anticipate another kick off meeting on Thursday.
WHAT AM I SUPPOSED TO DO? HOW IS THIS FAIR? WILL IT ALWAYS BE LIKE THIS?
No job is worth compromising your quality of life.
You work to lead a happy life. The object is not getting fulfilled with this job.
Tell him that you will start serving notice right after the bonus
Truth is - That feeling of giving up the holiday and working should come from within - ownership. But there’s no ownership when partner owns equity and the junior is like a salaried employee who has to sacrifice his time and not be able to enjoy his money he earned by working hard.
Most cases the junior will be replaced by partner soon as they get someone better. In your own business, that will never happen.
Your life == Your job
It's just a job
a. Partner should've planned better if he/she is a real deal-maker/client getter. Partner should've hired 2-3 associates at least so that the team can take offs and get breaks from time to time without letting work suffer.
b. The trip was planner, expenses were incurred and therefore actual damages took place. Nowhere has the partner said they'll recompense for the costs incurred and/or make whole for the situation they've put this chap in.
c. I am on the client-side now after 7 years on the firm-circuit. No client will appreciate the behavior from the partner because this means that the person has absolutely no sense on how to behave with other people or how to staff their team. While it doesn't make a difference to me tangibly, it does mean that my work is being done begrudgingly by associate who's probably on an understaffed or incompetent team. Either way it looks off.
d. There are service providers in competitive businesses everywhere, they don't behave like total asshats.
Let me recount a personal incident. A few years back, my daughter underwent routine appendix surgery scheduled for 3 pm, and she wished for my presence. Despite leaving work at 1:45 pm to be there, I received a call from a team member about crucial data from our client. I immediately returned to the office and resumed work. That dedication led to my promotion to partner at my Tier 1 firm that year.
Success in this industry demands dedication and prioritizing client needs above personal matters.
Though you might have succeeded as a lawyer, you failed miserably as a parent.
My parents and younger son had met with a road accident and were lying injured on the road. One of them managed to call me to arrange for an ambulance, and I was about to call for one, but then a client called to discuss whether we should use millions and billions or lakhs and crores in the agreement which was due to be signed in the forthcoming month. I called for the ambulance only once I convinced the client that we will do whatever the client wants and the advantages and down-sides of using either of the styles.
While my parents and younger son died due to the delay in calling the ambulance; but then client service comes first, once and always. I'm sure my parents would have known that I must be doing something important as they were breathing their last breath on the road. My younger son was too young - so he wouldn't have understood much, including the precedence of client service.
And yes, I am not saying this as a jealous person. I come from generational wealth, which is why I can make all of these tall statements - because my net worth at birth is more than what you will have when you die. I do not mean this in a derogatory way - I mean it in a way to genuinely suggest that you will regret this later in life. Nobody thinks "I should have earned 10 more lakhs" when they die. They think "I should have been there for my daughter".
It’s possible he/she may want to fire you and is looking for an excuse to do that.
Take a call.
Waise bhi tu credit card pe debt lekar hi jata na
When you are in service industry, client needs takes precedence, which sometimes means delaying medical emergencies too.
You kids are just too soft.