Anonymous
10/02/2025 10:28
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
I’m going through a separation and divorce and met with a few family law lawyers and they all encouraged staying out of court and spending as little & as possible. I was pleasantly surprised.
Anonymous
09/28/2025 16:20
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:PE, IB, hedge funds. rich d*cks every one.
Work for a PE portfolio company. The kind of people who feel good about themselves when they treat others like sh#t. Unfortunately, they hire management who behave the same way. Thank goodness I am semi retiring next month.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 18:24
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
Is that what you tell yourself?
PE has been awful across the board - for both employees and consumers. You are vampires.
There is no value added by PE. You are vulture parasites. You destroy brands, innovation, creativity, careers, livelihoods.
Load the company with debt. Cash in. And exit.
You wreck a lot of lives for your bonus. I don't know how you live with yourself.
New poster here. Agree on the whole yes that happens and it’s wrong. My company’s investment mandate is different. And we are very happy to balance mission and margin, share some financial outcomes with the employees that create it, and still deliver superior risk adjusted returns to the pensioners, city employees, teachers, firefighters etc who count on us for their retirement.
So yes, I sleep just fine, thank you!
Anonymous
09/25/2025 18:15
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
Is that what you tell yourself?
PE has been awful across the board - for both employees and consumers. You are vampires.
There is no value added by PE. You are vulture parasites. You destroy brands, innovation, creativity, careers, livelihoods.
Load the company with debt. Cash in. And exit.
You wreck a lot of lives for your bonus. I don't know how you live with yourself.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 17:56
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:Thanks for the afternoon chuckle. PE doesn't give a rats ass about the business, or the people: only profits
My vet's office got bought by PE and all of a sudden they're charging $18 for nail trims, $10 per pill for generic meds. On the rare occasion you can get anyone on the phone they are surly and ineffective because all the good ones, the skilled people who'd worked there for years, got canned and replaced with nasty HS dropouts for half the price and less than half the service. The vets are miserable because they are overworked to meet their PE overlords' vig.
Notice that vets have one of the highest suicide rates of all professions, and coincidentally, suicides spiked when PE moved into the industry. Still climbing, btw.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 17:51
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
Many of us here are directly impacted by the decline in services caused by PE - most notably in ABA companies which have now been totally gutted by PE. You’re being truly disengenuous about how you cut costs and increase the bottom line. Then you load them in debt and exit, taking a pile of cash and leaving a bankrupt business.
https://cepr.net/publications/pocketing-money-meant-for-kids-private-equity-in-autism-services/
Anonymous
09/25/2025 17:46
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Thanks for the afternoon chuckle. PE doesn't give a rats ass about the business, or the people: only profits
Anonymous
09/25/2025 16:55
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
To the average person interacting with a company bought by PE, the cost-cutting results in worse products or services. The company ceases to become about trying to do the thing it originally set out for and instead feels like they are trying to provide the least value at the highest price.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 16:50
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
What’s PE?
Anonymous
09/25/2025 15:33
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Financial Advisors
Anonymous
09/25/2025 15:28
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
“Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them.”
Anonymous
09/25/2025 15:26
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
How smug you are. PE is tanking healthcare practices across the spectrum and definitely here in the DC area. PE doesn't know shit about running a medical practice. You buy up successful small businesses and then rack up costs and end up firing a 1/4 of the staff (which is what makes a lot of practices good).
You have a special place reserved for you but it's not heaven.
Yeah, it’s an uphill battle convincing us that PE isn’t awful when we’ve all seen what happens when PE takes over the ped practice, the assisted living facility, the vet clinic. It’s never good.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 14:28
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
How smug you are. PE is tanking healthcare practices across the spectrum and definitely here in the DC area. PE doesn't know shit about running a medical practice. You buy up successful small businesses and then rack up costs and end up firing a 1/4 of the staff (which is what makes a lot of practices good).
You have a special place reserved for you but it's not heaven.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 14:25
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Internet Message Board Moderator.
Anonymous
09/25/2025 13:50
Subject: Negative association careers for me - PE, ‘family’ law (divorce) attorney. These careers disgust me
Anonymous wrote:I bet half of the people on here don’t even understand PE. I’m in it and people think we’re like the 80s corporate raiders. There are some firms like that but those are mostly bottom feeders. We generally buy up small companies who were not able to access capital due to their size or lack of performance or who have retiring owners/founders. We always keep the former owners as partial minority owners. We put all the employees on incentive plans with small ownership stakes. We generally try to roll up a few small companies together before exiting but often don’t exit. We get economies of scale in our inputs as the companies grow and are generally able to cut non-personnel costs by up to 30%, thus increasing the bottom line a lot. I’m not sure what is so awful about that? Several of our purchases would have shut down at the founders retirement had we not purchased them.
Lolz. I used to work in news. I understand PE just fine. You suck