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Am I the Jerk?

Karen LIED to get me FIRED from my Stock Trading Job

Am I the Jerk?

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Society & Culture, Relationships

4.83.2K Ratings

🗓️ 7 May 2022

⏱️ 22 minutes

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0:00.0

My boss bribed my coworker to say that I acted in an inappropriate way involving adult misconduct in order to get me fired.

0:10.5

So I plotted the most meticulous insane revenge to strike back in the three ways that would destroy her the most, her career, her marriage, and her relationship with her kids.

0:22.6

Here's what I did to pull off this cataclysmic revenge.

0:26.8

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0:30.6

This all happened five or so years ago while I was working for a proprietary trading firm.

0:35.5

The company is a multinational and it opened a new office in my city a couple years before I joined them.

0:40.5

For those who don't know, most prop shops, as I understood it, have a very high turnover rate.

0:45.5

Just toss everyone in and keep those who stick.

0:48.2

The company I worked for recruited every three months.

0:50.9

It had space for about 120 traders, but the office was never full.

0:55.3

Out of the 20 or so who are hired every quarter, only about five managed to make beyond the three month internship period.

1:01.9

And of those, only one, or sometimes none at all, made it past the additional three month probation period.

1:08.9

The company was operating in my city for two years before I joined and there were only about four people who I would have called permanent.

1:15.1

Everyone else, about another ten, was either on their internship or on probation.

1:20.0

So that brings us to chapter one, the setup.

1:23.6

I and about 25 others were recruited straight out of university.

1:27.5

The internship period paid really well for a first job, about twice as much as any other entry level position.

1:33.0

In other financial institutions, plus bonuses once we went live, regardless of whether one is on internship, probation, or permanent.

1:41.5

And I was really excited.

1:42.8

I first came across my boss, a really decent Indian guy, at an industry day held at our university.

1:48.4

That was where they administered the IQ test and I passed.

1:52.1

The office, similar to other midsize corporations, had a pretty flat management structure.

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