Politics

[Datchew]

Did you just say FFS? Hilarious. I feel your pain

Sorry. Lol.

Favorite saying of my Brit boss.
Things like balls-ache, fu**-all (as denoting a quantity,) and a few others are creeping into my vocab.

 

[Louis Toadvine]

Yeah, my son-in-law originally chose the business financing side of law as he did not want to keep those kind of hours. He was interfacing with bankers, so bankers hours for the most part. Then, he made a lateral move to a hedge fund and became an investment banker, again business hours except for the international business hours at times.

Investment banking (particularly M&A and leveraged finance groups), private equity, and some forms of public market investing (multi-pod hedge funds) are typically super demanding, high hour jobs far outside typical "banker" or business hours. 80-100 work weeks are the norm for young bankers/investors (analysts/associates/VPs) working in major markets (NYC, Silicon Valley, London). And there's massive, constant unpredictability in the hours (e.g. if you're working on a live deal, you could work all-nighters on Saturday and Sunday and find out about it at lunchtime Saturday, or you could be asked to work the deal over Christmas, Thanksgiving, etc.). The commercial and corporate side of banking and some of the coverage (non-product) sides of I-Banking like debt capital markets have more chill hours. And commercial banking in a community or regional bank is usually an 8-5 kind of job, maybe a bit more once you hit SVP+.

There's a (potentially apocryphal) story about an investment bank (a notorious sweatshop) who at one point would ask analyst and associate candidates during interviews: "How many hours in a week?" And when the eager and well-prepped candidate answered, "168!", the interviewer would ask: "Correct. How do you feel about working 120 of them?"

 

[John Wasmuth]

If Trump would just stick to her failing policies that’d be great…….

 

[flatwater bill]

The CIA is busy fomenting another regime change......this time in Venezuela. The blue print is always the same.......soft invasion, NGO's, buy politicians, tell the young people that the election was fraudulent (maybe it was), then let the Legacy US media pick it up, and chant "we need to defend democracy", then threats of US intervention. All that has just happened. Remember Gweedo? No? Actually, that's phonetic. It is spelled Guaido........Juan Guaido. The puppet "President" that we installed a few years ago? Ya, he was thrown out by his own people. (somehow that didn't get covered").....lack of transparency with billions of dollars of money in the international arena (sanctioned by the US.) Anyway, if you think for yourself a little you can follow this until the sheep bleat out "we need to go to war". Again. And remember, the largest oil reserves in the Western Hemisphere have nothing what so ever to do with it. It's democracy, damn it!............13 Venezuelans working near my house laying an underground cable brought this to mind. I talked with them today. They were bussed up 11 days ago..................FWB

 

[John Wasmuth]

Christians In Action once again……

 

[DillonG]