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>Including the CIO and his assistant who ruled the 39th floor with an iron fist, a hold over from the dot com era. Please explain? Is ruling the 39th floor a p
by InCityDreams 4y ago
>Including the CIO and his assistant who ruled the 39th floor with an iron fist, a hold over from the dot com era.
Please explain? Is ruling the 39th floor a particularly [financial] in-joke?
- hadlock 4y agoNo that's just the particular floor we happened to be on. I think the bank was on 38 and the trading floor was... 32?, executive suite was 41 or something. We had like five or six floors in the upper third of the 42 story building and a bank branch down in the lobby. They probably would have liked to have contiguous floors but it would have been a lot of work to move the data center and trading floor just to say you had X floors in a row.
- samizdis 4y agoAFAIK, it's just representative of status/power, but I don't know its origins. A listing in The Urban Dictionary defines/describes it as: When an idea, movement or act has become very successful. To be propelled to great heights. [1] FWIW, there's a band called The 39th Floor [2] that I like for its grungy/retro-ish rock. The band's name evokes, for me, the image of "high-powered execs", but I'm not sure how that association got into my head. (Possibly the track Koka Kola on The Clash's album London Calling [3], but that refers to a "51st floor", rather than 39th, to symbolise corporate success/power [4].) [1] https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=39th%20floor https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=39th%20floor [2] https://the39thfloor.bandcamp.com/ https://the39thfloor.bandcamp.com/ [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Calling https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London_Calling [4] https://genius.com/The-clash-koka-kola-lyrics https://genius.com/The-clash-koka-kola-lyrics