what the f*** is up with these shite investment banking analyst wages?
Alright, listen up lads! As a fresh-faced first-year IB analyst in the big smoke, I gotta say, the comp situation ain't looking too hot, ya know what I mean? I mean, I know we're all supposed to be grateful for the opportunity to grind it out in this cutthroat industry, but c'mon now, we gotta be real with ourselves.
I'm talking about the bloody hourly rate, mate. When you break it down, it's a bit of a pisstake, ain't it? I mean, sure, we're making some decent coin, but when you consider the absurd hours we're putting in, it's hardly worth it.
Let me break it down for ya: I'm pulling in roughly £25 an hour, but when you factor in the 80-100 hour weeks, it's like I'm barely making minimum wage. And don't even get me started on the bonus situation - I'm starting to think that's just a bloody myth at this point.
Don't get me wrong, I'm grateful for the opportunity to work in this industry and learn from some of the best in the biz, but at the end of the day, a bloke's gotta eat, ya know? It's time for the powers that be to start throwing some more cash our way, or else they're gonna start losing some top talent to the hedge funds and private equity shops.
most concise brit
Fucking mad, innit?
Time to unionise mate
2023: the year investment banks first began losing talent to HF and PE (according to British calendar)
this sounds like an american trying to sound british
I’d be surprised if an American knew what “The Big Smoke” was if they didn’t live/work in the UK. I had never heard the term until I started working with a company in the midlands. We Americans also have no clue how to properly use the term pisstake (I still don’t…).
No this is definitely an American pretending to be British. I've never heard anyone, let alone a British person, say "the big smoke" in my 20+ years of living in this country. In fact I had to just look up what that meant.
Also overuse of ain't and bloody is a dead giveaway
Calculating your hourly wage before factoring in your number of hours worked is the type of out of the box thinking this industry needs.
"Complain about the conditions of Investment Banking in the style of a wallstreetoasis.com user". Here's what I got:
Pretty much summarized 90% of the topics around here.
Bet 200 bucks that this is ChatGPT-generated