The Holiday Party Summary and Analysis

Rolfe and Troob were certainly not enthusiastic about their work at DLJ during their first months of employment. The endless road of developing pitch books, bribing word processors and copy center folk was not what they had signed on to do. Days became a routine, beginning about 9:00 a.m. but lasting well into the night and divided into four parts. The period before lunch was spent checking the returns from word processing, copy center or analysts. After lunch time was filled with meetings with vice-presidents, managing directors, potential clients or actual clients. These meetings were generally disliked and dreaded, because ideas were generated which meant more work.

The real work began after the vice-presidents and directors were gone for the night. This was a time when associates first got together for dinner, to vent and to complain...