Boss screws me out of my big bonus, so I just stopped working while still getting paid for a year.

Here's what happened.

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I apologize for the length of this in advance.

This happened some years ago, but still seems relevant today, so I thought I would share the story.

So back in the 90s, I was working for a European-based financial firm. years ago, but still seems relevant today, so I thought I would share the story.

So back in the 90s, I was working for a European-based financial firm.

US offices were managed by Europeans with a regional head in New York.

Younger employees were generally underpaid and overworked, as in your first few years out

of college, the promised reward was being promoted to a director

position where the salary, perks, and bonus structure would really kick in, kind of like how law

firms promote their younger lawyers to partners after a long wait.

As junior associates, the only good news was that we received the same five weeks of vacation

per year, plus a few weeks of sick leave

as our European counterparts, which for me meant a lot of camping and staycations during

the summer, since I didn't really make enough to travel to exotic and expensive locations.

The offices were set up in a way where the business development, or BD, directors, each had a junior

associate. The BD guys would generally network, schmooze, and travel around their territories

to meet clients and new prospects. Once back in the office, the BD guys would dump their

meeting notes on the desks of their junior associates to follow up and land the business,

a Hunter Skinner

model.

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