Monday @Mentions January 27, 2014

Thread of the Week:

This will come as a surprise to no one, as Why I Left A Seemingly Perfect Megafund PE Gig For A Guaranteed Salary of $0.00 was posted and re-posted throughout the week, and might just be the most shared post in WSO history. @"Ben_KickassAcademy" definitely struck a nerve with his tale of walking away from what most of us here would consider a dream job for the uncertainty of a life spent on the beaches of Copacabana. The original post was awarded 20 Silver Bananas and an astounding 324 Facebook Likes, and the discussion is created led to dozens more Silver Bananas. Makes me wonder if we all secretly crave a life of waking up at a the crack of noon and spitting game at the hotties on the beach all day and night...

Comment of the Week:

Okay, so I wrote what I thought was a pretty innocuous post on wealth inequality based on a recent study by Oxfam. I guess I should have figured that it would go shitshow on me, as any post on this site that merely suggests the system might not be 100% meritocratic often does. That said, there were some really great comments made in this thread, not the least of which was one by @"NYU" highlighting the dichotomy between intelligence and education (and that intelligence is presumably distributed evenly throughout our species, but that education is largely a function of one's socioeconomic background). This single comment earned him 8 Silver Bananas. I also have to mention @"NorthSider" in the same thread. He may not have racked up the same banana count, but his analysis is always crazy in-depth and there's never any ambiguity as to why he believes the things he believes.

Caption Contest Winner:

@"archipelago" wins the caption contest this week with his riff on Office Space over here. Well done!

The Professor:

@"drive4show" gave us all a lot to think about with his excellent post Buyside Viewpoint from a Fixed Income PM. The tale of his career trajectory was invaluable to a lot of monkeys, and his post earned him 10 Silver Bananas. Oh, and did I mention that he's new to WSO? Way to putt for dough, man!

The Guidance Counselor:

The world of sales and trading is fascinating to a lot of people in IB, so when @"big unit" posted The Types of Monkeys in The Trading Jungle, it was very well received. His breakdown of S&T earned him 16 Silver Bananas and 7 Facebook Likes.

Most Active Monkeys:

@"Ben_KickassAcademy" was at the top of the heap this week with 111 banana points, followed by a tie between @"Going Concern" and @"DickFuld" at 88 apiece. @"big unit" and @"Flake" brought up the rear with 77 and 76, respectively.

That's it for this week's @mentions, monkeys. Get out there and make a killing this week!