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If I hear the word “NOW” thrown at me one more time today, I’m seriously just going to say I’m sick and walk.

I work for a “financial advisor” whose solution to everything is not to read the e-mails, not to actually understand the client relationship or needs but to simply throw it at me and say it has to happen “NOW” in as obnoxious a voice as possible. “Send the 1099s for Mr. Jones now. And the 1099s for Thompson now. No, actually go see what this person meant by her e-mail. And can you look up this person’s tax bracket NOW? No, put that aside, I need you to overnight this now. No, now send a $1,000,000 wire NOW!” And guess what? It can’t all fucking happen now at once. Maybe that’s why there are 8 hours in a day. Hell, 60 minutes in an hour, the most basic patience would solve it. The only thing you get if you snarl NOW at me is I have to slowdown because you’ve…


I work for a “financial advisor” whose solution to everything is not to read the e-mails, not to actually understand the client relationship or needs but to simply throw it at me and say it has to happen “NOW” in as obnoxious a voice as possible.

“Send the 1099s for Mr. Jones now. And the 1099s for Thompson now. No, actually go see what this person meant by her e-mail. And can you look up this person’s tax bracket NOW? No, put that aside, I need you to overnight this now. No, now send a $1,000,000 wire NOW!”

And guess what? It can’t all fucking happen now at once. Maybe that’s why there are 8 hours in a day. Hell, 60 minutes in an hour, the most basic patience would solve it. The only thing you get if you snarl NOW at me is I have to slowdown because you’ve put so much anxiety into my day, I literally fucking can’t focus. And then if you’ve really gone above and beyond, I start making mistakes because it’s a huge distraction to what should be carefully done work.

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