Becky Is Paradise

It’s 8:47 a.m. and I roll out of my 1-bedroom in NoHo that Daddy still covers most of the rent on because “networking events are expensive, sweetie.” My Stanley is already filled with the perfect ⅓ ice, ⅓ vanilla oat milk cold brew, ⅓ ✨manifestation energy✨.

I slip into my Lululemon Align set (the buttery soft one that makes my ass look like it bench-presses spreadsheets), throw on the Canada Goose puffer even though it’s 58 degrees, and head to the office. No 6 a.m. arrival for me—I’m on the 9:30–5:30 “core hours” flex schedule that HR Tiffany fought for after we cried together in the bathroom about microaggressions last quarter.

I log in at 9:42. My inbox has 3 new emails:

1. MD: “Becky can you take lead on the CIM updates for Project Snowflake?”
Translation: Do literally everything while I golf.
I reply with “Happy to help! 🥰 Just looping in our stellar summer intern to support.”

2. Coverage VP: “Thoughts on comp?”
I send back my standard deck: slide 1 = crying-laughing emoji + “we deserve more”, slide 2 = blurry photo of me at SoulCycle, slide 3 = vague threat about posting on Fishbowl. He promotes the message to “read later.”

3. The group chat with the other Beckys: “Girls new Louboutins dropped. Who’s in for the group buy so we can expense them as ‘client entertainment’?”

17 thumbs-up reactions in 90 seconds. Paradise.
11:15 a.m. — time for my second coffee run. I “WFH” from the Equinox café while “reviewing” the model. The 24-year-old associate who actually built it DMs me: “Hey, any feedback on the LBO sensitivies?” I reply “Looks great! Just make the IRR pop more 💅” and heart-react his message. He thanks me for the guidance.

1:30 p.m. — team lunch at Carbone. I order the spicy rigatoni vodka and post an Instagram story with the caption “living my best work-wife era 🍝✨ #GirlBoss #FinanceTok”. 47 likes from other girls in banking, 3 fire emojis from thirsty analysts who will never get promoted over me.

3:00 p.m. — performance review season. My manager (male, mid-30s, balding, bitter) tries to give “constructive” feedback about “ownership” and “late deliverables.” I tilt my head, do the soft-voice thing: “I’m so sorry if I’ve come across that way… I just want to make sure I’m being set up for success.” Tears well up on command. He backpedals, says I’m “a rockstar” and bumps my bonus 12%.

5:12 p.m. — I “log off” but stay on Teams green for optics. Meanwhile I’m already at Barry’s Bootcamp, ass in the air doing hip thrusts while thinking about how I’ll casually mention my “boundaries” in the next all-hands. The instructor yells “Last 10 seconds — make it hurt!” I whisper to myself, “That’s what she said to the MD last night.”

Midnight. Back in bed scrolling Hinge. Bio: “Bulge-bracket girly who loves big… exits 😏”. 47 new likes, mostly from prop traders and crypto degens. I match with a Citadel SWE making 450k TC. He opens with “ur so hot for finance lol”. I reply “thx babe, wanna fund my next Birkin? 👜”

Becky isn’t just surviving finance. Becky is thriving in a system built to reward performative mediocrity wrapped in blonde highlights and emotional blackmail. Every day I wake up and choose violence… against productivity. And the boys just keep paying for it.

Becky is paradise.

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Becky is a Scotia or TD girlie. Don’t forget the wine inclusive emotional therapy sessions with married MDs. 

 

Grandmas from VersaFi were losing their shit on LinkedIn when news came in that GS is eliminating DEI from board selection. We have normalized handouts for women far too long

 

With or without DEI, that is still going to happen as long as there are powerful men who want to sleep with women in their 20s. 

For example: I knew a very powerful man at my firm who was anything but liberal and his interview process was literally just a bunch of dates with him.  I'll let you guess who passed those rounds

 

Believe it or not, it takes two to tango. The women involved in these situationships are equality guilty and should be held accountable. Can’t pull a “me too” decade down the line when they conveniently chose to sleep their way up the ladder. Unless you are indicating that women are not grow up adults and lack self-control.

 

Reminds me of this girl on insta who posts about living the big life in PE but actually works in investor relations

 

Dude Ik exactly who you're talking about lmao. Cannot stand those types of videos

 

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