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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
by macNchz 6y ago
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.
- mbrodersen 6y agoWhy on earth didn’t people quit? Money isn’t more important than your mental/physical health/safety.
- ghufran_syed 6y agoIMO, 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
- mbrodersen 6y agoYep that makes perfect sense.