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Ah yes, as opposed to all those professional people in finance wearing suits doing cocaine on regular? Is it their choice of the drug that makes it more profess
by filoleg 3y ago
Ah yes, as opposed to all those professional people in finance wearing suits doing cocaine on regular? Is it their choice of the drug that makes it more professional?
And no, I am not speaking just based on stereotypes, I personally observed it happen with a significant frequency with friends working in the industry. And the fact that the big finance office building I've been to had a very bice lounge-like area with chairs, sofa, wardrobe+coat hangers, and a coffee table as you enter any bathroom didn't help that perception either.
Side-tangent note: I want to clarify what i meant by "a pre-bathroom lounge-like area", because it indeed difficult to tell what i was talking about just based on the paragraph above.
You walk through a hallway and see two bathroom doors (M and F), so far everything is very usual. You open one of the doors, and instead of a typical bathroom, you see the type of a lounge room I described above. Literally just a normal lounge relaxing room, with a coffee table, a few comfortable lounge chairs, a small sofa, etc. You also see another door inside this lounge room (in addition to the door you entered through from the hallway). And that door is where the actual regular public bathroom is, with a row of stalls, sinks, etc. So the lounge room basically acts as a buffer room between the hallway and the actual bathroom.
Is it a thing at all big finance companies? I don't know, and I think probably not, so this shouldn't be treated as a concrete proof of anything. And I honestly believe that only a small minority utilizes that room for anything but its officially-intended purpose. But it is a bit telling.
And no, I don't think this makes finance people as a group unprofessional (or even as individuals; that would depend on their actual behaviors and interactions at their workplace). Just like I don't think a significant number of people in tech being into various drugs makes them unprofessional as a group.
- readthenotes1 3y agoThat's how women's restrooms used to be where I worked long ago. No such lounge for the guys.
- filoleg 3y agoOh, that's interesting. For context, I am a guy and definitely went into the men's restroom in that anecdote above (so i cannot speak for the women's restroom in that same hallway). I just assumed they would make the same setups for both.
- momirlan 3y agochecked the ladies room, same as gents