Their managers will make people work at night, over the weekends, anytime they want on short notice just because they are bad managers and don’t give a s**t about you. It’s NOT because of client’s requests like how this industry usually gets a bad rap.Ain't this the truth. I knew I needed to get out, after I started realizing how I was becoming part of the problem. One time my VP insisted that we needed to share some presentation with the partner the next day, and, of course, I needed to make the analysts on the project work late to make this happen. There was no real deadline, but this was not a VP who took kindly to second-guessing his plans. So I made a few analysts work late and we put together a presentation to share with the partner the next day. Well, surprise, surprise, the partner was busy and the meeting got postponed a week, and I had been a willful participant in ruining some people's evenings (including my own).
The icing on the cake was when, in my next performance review, I was criticized by this very same VP for making analysts work late when it wasn't necessary.
ex ante v ex post?