Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap

Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap by Rule35 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @05:46PM (#26526289)

> Smart people will always gravitate to something like this to justify all the abuse. It was inevitable, reading this, I figured it was coming up in the first sentence.

No. The justifications come in around making employees also work a 9-5 shift. If they just hired night-quants it would be fine.

It's simply a fact that some work needs to be done by the next morning like stocking shelves. Or 24/7 like tech support.

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Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap by kazen44 on Saturday March 20, 2021 @06:12PM (#26526426)

but is investment banking really necessary work in that regard? in the end, it is just white collar office work at the end of the day.

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Re:Young Goldman Sachs bankers ask for 80-hour week cap by Rule35 on Sunday March 21, 2021 @01:28PM (#26532112)

Nobody questions Baristas starting early to get the coffee shop ready for the day's workers, but you cleverly ask why have work ready for the workers at all.

Yes, actually investment banking is kinda critical because every day that paper languishes a bunch of capital is going underutilized and people are idle and unpaid. In order to not waste the life work of so many, yeah the paper pushers should get in gear.

But also, it's rude and silly to ask this. Because I could just as cleverly ask if what you enjoy is critical and we both know that it, when viewed reductively, is not.

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