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New Grad venturing into Real World |
| Message Name: |
Advice.... |
| Date Posted: |
05/11/2001 |
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I am the team assistant in a small venture capital firm. Everyone except me went to Harvard Business School. I am terribly concious of this. They lunch together and I am always on my own and excluded from conversations, plans and activities. I would like to get more involved but I don't know how. No one ever seems to be interested in what I have to say and so I act in an aloof manner, as if I don't care. That does not help. I need advice. |
| Message: |
Egotistical assholes love an audience. So my advice is-
Give 'em what they thrive on!
Treat them like Gods. Ask all sorts of questions about Harvard. Feign amazement at their trite responses. Listen to their war stories with a look of unabashed awe plastered to your mug.
In short, Kiss their asses. Some might call this 'selling out', but when you are part of a close organization where cliques are formed based upon tangible factors (i.e., Harvard degree), sometimes you have no choice. You have to survive. And besides, these folks are from Harvard. There are worse things in the world than kissing the asses of Harvard graduates.
At least, I'm pretty sure there are.
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