In an only in 2025 story, heard there’s a rumor going around that a senior banker at a bulge bracket (unsure exact level) was let go for anonymously posting about his firm online. A friend in IT said they traced it back by analyzing email patterns such as tone, typos, writing style and were able to match it with high enough confidence to take action.
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Is that why all of the UBS threads have slowed down? Goodnight, sweet prince.
Have they slowed down? The same few posters and commentators are still posting a lot about UBS. Has to be a different firm, surely. Also, I think that none of the UBS posters are currently at UBS. They are way too open about hating the firm, and all seem salty about the firm suggesting they got laid off. Either that or they are all in UBS TMT and have no other place to vent.
You don’t shit where you eat
No way
Is it senior VP in Corp Dev?
Straight up writing manifestos here
They had to be suspicious of him or something. I would think it’d be hard for IT to constantly monitor all emails and online forums to overlay text patterns.
They would have needed to seen a post and suspected it could have been a few people then did the analysis or something.
Sounds v big brother, but I wonder what he said to have gotten fired.
Everyone is an at-will employee, so they can fire people for anything. Laying someone off directly for anonymous posts would be a very easy lawsuit for whoever got laid off, as long as no confidential info was written.
Not following. What about getting fired for posting about one’s firm makes for a lawsuit?
If true, this is validating my paranoia that leads me to occasionally change the way I type and my vocabulary even on an anonymous forum.
Probably futile still
sup dawg yo fuq this firm's culture; seniors be gossipin; sheet cant stay another day in this wack environment. keep bussin [insert] 2015 dap
Nice attempt to censor comments here. Shareholders and regulators will be deeply concerned if it is proven that bank’s capital is being used to witch hunt.
Probably worth it, could fire for cause and save on severance costs
It makes sense that Executive Director in IB - Gen hasn't engaged with any UBS posts this month
Likely became senior VP in corp dev. Same style, same long winded posts, same hate for UBS, same urgent need for therapy
Yeah especially when you have like accounts like over complementing each other, you know it’s the same guy.
No one glazes over people responding they are often more like “umm ok cool” to responses vs “wow these are fantastic responses you have such great insights”
Pretty sure the UBS posters are all communicating with each other. Their commentary is always the same, even when writing styles are different. It sucks to be an incoming analyst at UBS because this forum makes it hard to be excited about starting. The comments on WSO make it feel like it's all over before it started, based on what offer I took back in sophomore year.
So negative UBS posts one of two things..
Theory 1: everyone is communicating with each other to artificially make UBs look bad when it’s a fantastic place to work, or
Theory 2: League tables are correct and articles citing all the departures and declines are accurate
I type completely differently at work compared to online though
lol you might think you do but you don’t. The style is the same the specific give aways are the same. At work you just type a lot more formally than than not at work. But there is a reason throughout history people have been able to identify writings based off writing style and also why teachers can recognise when students haven’t written something themselves if they have taught them long enough
Just put it in Ai and say to write in the tone of an angry just fired MD who is trying to lecture an analyst, but the MD isn’t a great banker and doesn’t close any deals
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