Just wondering if it's generally looked down upon to bring your ex-bank's banker bag to your new bank. I just want to bring some gym clothes/random stuff in it.
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Just wondering if it’s generally looked down upon to bring my ex-girlfriends photo with me to my new girlfriends apartment. I just want some nice decorations to look at.
Fair, but it's a bag in an office, not a photo of an ex-girlfriend lol.
Yes, that’s how metaphors work
For most bankers the office is their girlfriend.
Buy a duffel. Problem solved.
Yea don’t do it. All my swag is wasted from my old bank lol. You just get awkward looks or comments
If its good swag, I might use it for working out.
Yeah I just don’t think in any context this would go over well, nor is it worth it
How socially inept are you that you need to ask this question on a finance forum?
Extremely.
hahahahha
I think you can afford a new bag
Yeah, but kinda wasteful imo. The bag works fine.
Then why ask?
I wouldn't do it but my buddy wears his ex Moelis fleece to the office (EVR NY)
Where do you work?
Is it just a black bag with a small logo? How crafty are you? Put a sew-on patch (anything but your old firm) over the old logo if you really don’t want to waste anything. Otherwise just buy a new bag
Personally I plan on giving all of my company swag to the most strung out hobo I can find when I leave eventually.
Genius idea, doing this with my old banks shit
Honestly as long as the branding isn't overly in your face who cares, especially if you're moving upstream.
I did it for months until they bought me a new bag
I 100% do not believe your excuse that you just find this new bag useful and you think buying a new one will be a waste.
My guess is your old bank is more prestigious and popular than your new bank and you want people to look at you through that lens because you think you'll get more respect or some silly recognition. This is just an immature mindset you need to grow out of.
I have worked with precisely two guys like that wanted to still be seen as "Goldman Bankers" even though they now worked for my current bank and they carried around items with Goldman's logo into the office and brought up "when I was in Goldman" and hammered it in that they left due to lifestyle issues and not because they weren't good enough all the time.
No matter the reason, they were no longer at Goldman and people wanted them to just shut up about it and everyone saw them as tools who definitely did not have any respect for our business and I don't know if it was just perception because they still had the Goldman logo around them all the time but they both were not promoted due to their attitudes, I briefly worked with one of them and you could tell he did not want to be associated with us all the time, he brought his Goldman Sachs water bottle out with him whenever we went to have coffee and constantly complained about the size of the deals we worked on even though a lot of them were worth billions.
Nonetheless, you need to outgrow this mindset because it would just make you look ungrateful and foolish, if you belonged there so well they would have at least begged you to stay and you wouldn't have left either.
What firm/ group are you in?
Large balance sheet bank in DCM about to make the move back to Corporate Banking within the same bank
Lol, I wouldn’t make that assumption. The opposite is in fact true, I’m going to a better shop. I’ve just seen people in my current office bring in prior/other company gear. I personally don’t care when I see that, but it seems that there a lot of people are sensitive about other company gear. I’ll just only use it for the gym. I’ll buy a computer bag or something for the office. Thanks!
Answering assuming this is not a troll. No one will really care at all but like why stoke that fire? I feel like the guy above me is right, you want to lug around the old bag to show your new peers you came from xyz and are the real deal.
Just don't bother, sack up and buy a nice unmarked bag of some sort and go about your day without clouding your head with such inane thoughts. Be smart and be smart again. Don't ever be "that guy" because this is a one way ticket to achieving that title.
OP - as others have said, maybe you could do this, but why would you ever do it?
By that I mean, just look at the risk/reward ratio:
- Reward/advantage - you get to take in your favourite bag to the office
- Downside - you’re starting a new job and don’t know anyone, and someone might get offended/think that’s weird
Now for me I probably wouldn’t think that much of it - but you only need one or two people to think “that’s a bit weird/boastful” to make a bad impression. And for what? So you can have your favourite bag in the office - buy another bag frankly.
Maybe later on once you’re established and know people, you can get away with bringing it in - then if people know you someone might joke “you know you don’t still work at GS right” (or wherever) and you can laugh it off and say your other bag’s in the wash. But please don’t do this on your first day/week/month when first impressions really count - that’s my advice anyway.
If this is a troll post, it's really funny!
But if it's a f r post, damn.
Which bank has the sexiest banker bag tho?
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