What time was the earliest you ever left work for the day? Only M-F, excluding special days (holidays, you had a specific reason to leave early and you asked for permission, you pulled two all-nighters in a row so you left early the next day, etc)
Just a regular old work day. When's the earliest?
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5 pm. every friday
8pm
probably around 4:30-4:45pm @ my PE shop on a Friday...leading up to a long weekend when the office was pretty dead.
When I was an analyst at an iBank, probably 6:00pm once or twice...but usually I would be very happy if I got out by 9-10pm
same boat as nychimp, i've forfeited my dinner allowance a few times, but if I can get out before 10pm, i'm very happy.
Nychimp, what kind of hours do you work at your PE shop?
Saw some guys leave pretty early after b-day, when the extra cash hit their bank account...
occasionally on Fridays in summer between 6 and 7
That wouldn't happen during the week
You all are going to hate me, but recently we've started getting let out at 3:30pm every friday.
The norm during the week is more like 7-8pm.
I'm sure this sounds great to all the IBD people (I'm in RE) but I also don't get IBD comp, so it evens out.
When you say RE. What kind of RE? Don't IBD RE get the same comp as everyone else?
5 pm - and I leave maybe once a week at 5:30pm - boutiques fricking rule.
What's RE?
Rastafarian Equity
lmfao
Real Estate.
Although Rastafarian Equities might be more interesting, I should look into that.
I worked the week between Christmas and New Years this past year. Best idea ever. I was off the trading floor by 3:30pm every day. Effin beautiful.
i like working that week too...we'd do rotations where one guy would stay in the afternoon and the rest would knock off at lunchtime.
yes, but he works in real estate, not in an re group at a bank
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