Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
by macNchz on Saturday March 20, 2021 @10:30AM
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Yeah my roommate right after college worked at a major investment bank and the “culture” struck me as purely abusive hazing...he worked 6-7 days a week and was out of the apartment before 8am and home after midnight most days. The working environment he described sounded godawful...cruel for the sake of being cruel. Assignments delivered at midnight and due at 7am. People using the strict hierarchy to make junior people suffer. Young people with serious stress-induced health problems. Heavy drinking on the occasional night off to dull the pain.
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Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
by mbrodersen on Saturday March 20, 2021 @09:57PM
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Why on earth didn’t people quit? Money isn’t more important than your mental/physical health/safety.
Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
by ghufran_syed on Sunday March 21, 2021 @12:03AM
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IMO, the whole point of such a culture is to select out people for whom making money (for the firm, of which a % goes to the employee) is more important than anything else, including mental / physical health / safety
Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap
by mbrodersen on Saturday March 27, 2021 @09:01PM
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Yep that makes perfect sense.