My current team was loser-ish up to the point PP left. The Associate I replaced her with is this Punk straight out of college. Full of energy and a motor-mouth to boot. He talks non-stop but is quite entertaining. Thanks to him, the other two quiet-as-mice girls in my team opened up.

He is quite the flirt so I think one of the girls has already taken to him. Tsk Tsk.

Anyway, I’ve come to realise that I often come off as a fierce tyrant at work and that I have a less-than-pleasant disposition. This team has Worked hard so far and I sought out to make them feel at ease with me and soften my stance towards them somewhat.

Didn’t know if it’ll work so I told them let’s go out for some beers at the local pub across the building. Now, this pub is usually teeming with pseudo investment bankers but today it seemed they’d already receded to their alter homes or hankered after another waterhole. Which worked for us.

So it turned out really good. The girls really loosened up and the punk definitely worked his magic on one of the girls, or probably both, if I didn’t know any better.

I don’t usually like to chug down beer but I know boys like this punk are most at ease at a pub chugging beer so I got all of them beers and aha, I scooped up some juicy gossip among the first years as well. Whoa, this people are fast. Seems there are already two couples amidst the first year associates. Talk about fast movers!