Does your loyalty stay with the individual or the firm?

[PAB]

This situation came up twice recently and it's got me thinking.

My lawyer left his firm to pursue a partnership elsewhere. He left me hanging.

My stockbroker got fired three weeks into transferring my account with him. He left me hanging.

When you have an accountant, lawyer, doctor, professional whatever - do you tend to side with the firm or the individual?

 

[MisterJackson]

ooooh, a pab thread, this ought to be good!

Honey! Bring me my fvckin' lawn chair and a cold one!

 

[amish]

individual. they can't tell you what really happend, but most only leave for a good reason. firms usually dick someone over until the individual cannot take it anymore and leaves before he/she has a major medical problem.

 

[krunchykrome]

Hmm, Id say loyalty to the individual as long as he/she can still perform up to the standards and level of quality as thei did before he/she departed from the firm or practice. If you dealt with a few different people from a firm or practice, then Id say be loyal to the firm/practice.

 

[jjones]

Well, if the individuals left me hanging, I certainly wouldn't be chasing them down to give them my business.

 

[Ausm]

I never trust anyone except myself.


Ausm

 

[Shelly21]

PAB's parents must be terrorists... because he's the bomb!

 

[DougK62]

Loyalty to a person. A firm has no loyalty - it's a business.

 

[FreshPrince]

unless the firm is some mom and pop store, Firm.

never attach to individual

 

[DaShen]

"Well, I am not just going to FREAK OUT or anything... but I am asking you, whose with me..."

 

[Baked]

Originally posted by: DaShen
"Well, I am not just going to FREAK OUT or anything... but I am asking you, whose with me..."

I'll come w/ you Jerry?

 

[Descartes]

If it took your broker three damn weeks to transfer an account (even multiple accounts) then I'd say it's a good thing he's gone.

 

[Ameesh]

those people obviously left you hanging so why would you owe them any of your loyalty?

 

[krunchykrome]

Originally posted by: DaShen
"Well, I am not just going to FREAK OUT or anything... but I am asking you, whose with me..."

Will you have benefits?

 

[MisterJackson]

Do you guys not get that when he says my "my accountant" or "my lawyer", or "my broker" that the word "my" means "my parents"


lol at the parents terrorist joke

PAB's da bomb!

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Do you guys not get that when he says my "my accountant" or "my lawyer", or "my broker" that the word "my" means "my parents"


lol at the parents terrorist joke

PAB's da bomb!

Uh, no. Care to see all the legal bills addressed to me?

 

[TheAdvocate]

Companies are fictitious entities. People are real.

/thread

 

[BoomerD]

Originally posted by: PAB

Originally posted by: MisterJackson
Do you guys not get that when he says my "my accountant" or "my lawyer", or "my broker" that the word "my" means "my parents"


lol at the parents terrorist joke

PAB's da bomb!

Uh, no. Care to see all the legal bills addressed to me?

No thanks. I think we've all see WAY too much crap from you already...


HOWEVER, my last job, ever though we worked for a company, my crew all worked for our superintendant. Our loyalty was to him, not the company. Most of us had worked for him on at least a couple different jobs with different companies over the years. Had he left to go to another contractor, most of us would have followed gladly. I told one superintendant, "I don't work for T-S, I work for Mike...Tutor is just the mechanism that allows him to give me a paycheck"...
The silly bastard tried to write me up for insubordination...huh..ME? insubordinate? Whoda thunk it?
The project manager told him he couldn't write me for that, and got it thrown out. HE got reassigned to a different part of the job, and was off my barge for the balance of the job.

 

[mugs]

Originally posted by: Descartes
If it took your broker three damn weeks to transfer an account (even multiple accounts) then I'd say it's a good thing he's gone.

I think he meant three weeks AFTER he transferred the account.

 

[PAB]

Originally posted by: Descartes
If it took your broker three damn weeks to transfer an account (even multiple accounts) then I'd say it's a good thing he's gone.

11 different accounts, spread out all over brokers across the nation.

We had three problems with surrendering firms that would not honor the transfer request.

 

[torpid]

Well if you like working with someone and they get let go or leave, how is the answer not obvious? Maybe I'm not getting what you are asking. As far as I can tell, there is zero reason to continue working with the firm that the guy you liked left. He had to have left for a reason, and you never know if some other guy's going to be any good. It's like asking, would you keep going to her old apartment if your girlfriend moved.

 

[RaiderJ]

I've left jobs because a supervisor I liked left. I've also left jobs because the supervisor I disliked stayed.

 

[pinion9]

<Dwight>I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.</Dwight>

It depends on the situation. However, individual usually gets my loyalty. However, if the individual left me hanging, no notice, no "come with me" then it would be the company.

 

[torpid]

Originally posted by: pinion9
<Dwight>I'm going wherever they value loyalty the most.</Dwight>

It depends on the situation. However, individual usually gets my loyalty. However, if the individual left me hanging, no notice, no "come with me" then it would be the company.

I dunno about the last part. It could be that you were left hanging because of a non-compete clause or non-raid clause in the contract.

 

[zerocool1]

I'd say the individual assuming the other company they went to was good and you're happy working with that person (the service etc).
I'm going to be doing the same with my stylist. She moved to another salon.