Q: It’s taking me a long time to make partner. Recently a junior-ish partner clued me in that the senior partner I work with the most closely is viewed as an out-there, very strange kind of guy who doesn’t politic and has made some enemies. This is despite the fact that he is universally regarded as brilliant and has some big clients.
I’m puzzled by this and really infuriated that by merely doing good work for this guy, I’m tarred by the same brush, one that I think is very unfair. So therefore, this junior partner said, I’m not necessarily doomed but things aren’t going to go as quickly as they would otherwise. To me this looks like pure politics. Why can’t the partners look beyond this and do what they ought to do, given that I’ve killed myself, I’ve brought in business, and so on?
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