Open Thread

“Thanks THL! You’re so cool for mentioning that and confirming I’m not the only one.”

Actually, what I meant to say was. EWWwwwww grosssss!! You’re so nasty! I don’t know who hacked into my account and typed that comment above.

omfg i just came across this. i am literally bent over in pain from laughing so hard…

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I work on Wall Street, and I am proud of my job

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When all of the Wall Street executives, the senior traders, the managing directors became the target of public anger, when they were cursed left and right by Congressmen in various hearings, did they feel embarrassed? I don’t think they did. In their minds, they probably felt superior and pleased with the public celebrity. Without reaching a certain level, no one would care to curse at you and be angry at you. Do you ever see janitors being cursed at?
Those who curse at them, most of them secretly admire them. If an opportunity arises in which one of those can sit together with those traders, and be part of the excitement of the Street, I am willing to bet 9 out of 10 would jump at the opportunity.

Yield curve, duration, convexity, basis points, long, short, private equity, morgan stanley, citigroup, goldman sachs, even lehman brothers and bear stearns. Those words are full of magic and allure and mysticism. The traders, with their 4 flat screens, bloomberg terminals full of graphs and scrolling numbers，one phone on each hand, a huge CNBC feed in front of each of them showing Street Signs or Squawk Box… One cannot help but be intoxicated and mystified by those images.

If a group of non-Wall Streeters get together for a party, and if one Wall Streeter shows up, all of them will feel a secret sense of excitement. On appearance, they’ll join the crowd and bash that Wall Streeter, saying things like “Wall Street has declined.”, “it’s all your guys fault causing this economic crisis.”. “You guys must all be embarrassed now huh?”.

But despite what they say, they themselves mostly are thinking: “Oh God how I wish I can get a job on the trading floor of a Wall Street firm, oh god…..”
I work on Wall Street, and I am proud of my job.

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*rob*

They were all trying so hard to be cool and relevant. Which of course makes them so totally NOT cool. It just reeked of desperation. Yuck.

As I recall, it was worse because George actually retrieved someone else’s dessert out of the garbage and ate it, and was, of course, caught by another party guest.

Wait, at least Biff and I ate stuff that were still boxed. Not something making direct contact with garbage.