Guys, I can't seem to find the anti-Semitic rant video anywhere. Wall St Confessions suspiciously deleted their posts made around the time of the incident. The Incident has been wiped off Google, Yahoo, Bing, StartPage, AskJeeves, and Yandex, which at this point makes me believe this was done on purpose. Does anyone else know what's going on? Or can someone send me the video please? Thanks
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Wouldn't be surprised if BofA put some weight into getting rid of it, given it was a private internal call and a very bad look for them. and honestly the girl's career never recovered, think she's paid enough for that mistake to not have it follow her around the internet forever.
May get monkey shit, but I feel really bad for her. Don't think it's right to tank her career over this mistake. To go from valedictorian to wharton magna cum laude to BofA IB and then blacklisted from high finance. Sucks. I hope she gets a second chance some time.
I agree. I was only curious about listening to the video and seeing the reaction. But I think it's concerning that stories in general can be permanently deleted from the internet. One would think that anything posted on the internet will always remain there forever, but there is genuinely a problem with losing information, and potentially rewriting an account that is a pure fabrication of what happened.
It’s interesting, I don’t think ‘everything on the internet is forever’ is entirely true anymore. I’d argue things have to get distributed far enough for it to apply. For example I’ve tried to find old posts and pictures from over ten years ago and sometimes the websites, servers, and posts just aren’t up anymore. You’d really have to know what you were looking for with Wayback Machine to find something relatively obscure.
With something like this, it seemed like a big deal in the finance community that week but really it was her ‘fifteen minutes’ and she might have been able to get it taken down from the few places it got traction.
You wouldn't say that if she was non-target, ethnic minority, diversity ...
Yes I would.
so?
“she” means diversity from a recruiting standpoint.
Perhaps it's harsh, but she also could've just not said hateful shit. It takes 20 years to build a reputation and 5 minutes to ruin it.
It's just genuinely very easy to not be on a call spouting off anti-semitic statements. Like imagine putting someone like that in front of clients.
Didn’t MS you btw, I see where you’re coming from. Just disagree a bit.
Muh anti-semitism
It's not a mistake. It was a choice. Hitting "Reply All" is a mistake. Speaking up when you don't need to in order to engage in hate speech is a choice.
She made her bed, let her lie in it.
It's too harsh. I believe in second chances.
What is too harsh? She's not in prison, she's not being banished to live in Siberia or some shit, she's merely being judged for the person she is. There are thousands of people looking to break into Wall Street every year, and most of them are within a hair as "qualified" as this woman. She isn't special. Why does she deserve a second chance at the expense of someone else's first chance? Why would anyone take a risk on a person who has shown that she has no filter, that she is a liability to her firm, when they could just as easily hire someone 99.9999% as qualified?
Hell, why would anyone want to do business with the bank that re-hires the avowed bigot? Complain about "woke" culture all you want, but this person has shown she's not a potential risk to her firm, but an actual risk that might cost them business or bad press? Why is she owed a second chance? And again, why is she owed it at the expense of the tens of thousands of hardworking, intelligent people who could do her job just as well as she can, but without all the public anti-semitism?
I'm not sure if you are aware of the circumstances of this situation, but she was accidentally unmuted on a Zoom call and arguing with her boyfriend about something, and in that she referenced some of her coworkers in a negative light (using an insult which can be somewhat tied to ethnicity).
So in that sense, this was a mistake that was not intended for public audiences, spoken in the middle of a private argument.
In that sense this would be characterized as an accident, not intentional. I would even go so far as to say that it was unclear whether her comments were meant to be racist in nature or simply derogatory descriptive comments.
This all makes sense until you realize that every time she isn't hired, another person will be.
Can someone give a run down of what happened? Genuinely unaware of the situation.
TLDR Some top target school girl who was about to enter IB full time at BofA was unmuted on a call and was saying anti-Semitic stuff. Now she's doing corporate fin.
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/bofa-new-ft-analyst-making-anti-semitic-remarks?_wrapper_format=html&page=1
https://www.wallstreetoasis.com/forum/investment-banking/bofa-analyst-training-call-anti-semitism-follow-up
There are a lot more things censored from the Web. It’s extremely naive to believe these search engines provide results in entirety.
bro you need to relax. she was whining about a coworker and called him a "dweeby little jewish ass" talking about some guy who was apparently acting annoying at work.
its not the end of the world. she wasnt handing over names of jews to the nazis or something.
Its been like 2 years and you are still thinking about this?
I'm of another religion and I have heard WAY worse said about my religion and I just ignored it. Hell, Carl Icahn was the one who said Bill Ackman was like a "little jewish boy crying" on LIVE TV. and NO ONE CARED.
there are legit things jews should be worried about in relation to discrimination. this was not one of them.
that's not the same though since they're both Jews, but I see your point. +1
Oh both jews then..ok...let's the insults fly!
I completely agree with baddealflow above. I have heard very, very much worse things about both my religion and my ethnicity, and I've shut my mouth about it. Do you think I like it? Or that I find it funny? Getting insulted and humiliated on things near to my heart since early on? Fuck no. But that's how it is, that's how you get a thick skin, and if the Tribe wants to be taken seriously, they should start thinking about growing a thicker skin as well.
Sorry man, I’m all for growing thick skin, but what that girl said (and what has been said to you) should no longer tolerated in a civilized society in 2022.
If nasty comments that have been directed toward you have built you up, that’s fantastic and it’s great that you are coming out a stronger man. But people need to start speaking up and pushing back against these comments in the modern age: this type of behaviour is no longer tolerated and they simple normalize discriminatory behaviour (over time, discrimination can become normalized, like how it did for Jewish and Asian communities).
Agree let's ensure there's never a Broadway show mocking a religion. That would be too far.
Why should it not be tolerated? See, it's very simple, either everyone (and I mean everyone) is allowed to be offensive, or no one is (and that includes everyone). We're all equal under the law. If it's okay for a slimy weasel like Ricky Gervais to call me a freaky pedo for being Catholic, and okay for you Burgers to call me a Nazi for being German, then I guess it's okay for me to make fun of your Golden Cows as well, no?
The person who created this topic is not even Jewish. Do you think a bunch of Jews at BofA banded together in the middle of the night to kick this girl out?. Executives at BofA, a company whose headquarters in the South, decided that this female is a liability to the company. This is the likely reason she was let go.
This isn't a very convincing argument considering the high representation of Jews in finance. We won't ever know whether some Jewish executives decided to axe her or others got offended on behalf of Jews (which we see a lot of these days) and decided to axe her.
Merill Lynch (the securities side of the business) is headquartered in NYC. The Charlotte headquarters focuses primarily on the retail side of the business, with some MO/BO teams from Merill operating there. I think there is one IB group in Charlotte, but it is very small relative to NYC. It's not like WF Charlotte.
Agree we need to ensure things like this don't get said about jews. What if this BoA analyst made a hit Broadway play making fun of two well meaning religious jews and their religion and made an entire mockery of them for 2 hours and called it "the Talmud" well....we'd all agree that would be really wrong and there would be uproar over the play right? Let's agree to stop something like this from happening if someone ever got that idea.
Love the Mormons. They were such good sports about The Book of Mormon.
I love that we took out ad space in the playbill in some locations. I think it was "you've seen the play, now read the book!" or something along those lines.
You hit the nail right on the head, bro.
That wouldn't be wrong...hell fiddler makes fun of a lot of Jewish traditions, it just wasn't written by Matt and Trey. Plus you and I both know you have laughed at South Park's jokes about Kyle and being Jewish/Jew Gold/etc. etc.
Stop trying to be a victim and take a god damn joke damn.
I don't think it's cancel culture. If you disparage your whole team on a zoom call with many people on it, chances are you're going to get fired, with or without the Jewish thing.
Can't believe there's actually an agreement between Mr. GSFM here and myself. You get caught lacking, your boss will go wrecking.
Why would the OP be interested in a video focused on a girl who got busted for being anti-Semitic? And then OP goes on to say that he feels sorry for the anti Semite.
Just because she said anti-Semite comments doesn't mean she is an anti-Semite. It doesn't look good though.
I am not sure why you would make that statement. I am pretty sure Jews would think making anti-Semitic comments makes you an anti semite. What else could it mean?
You can hire firms to do internet scrubbing and she may have done that as damage control. Eventually, she will probably re-emerge with a changed name somewhere outside IB but in a spot that is respectable like corporate strategy or development or a boutique firm advisory or AM of some sort. Hell she’ll fit right in with some firms out there. She can probably never be a public figure because it will only take one person to connect the dots and now whatever company/department she is leading is catching flack for hiring an anti-Semite. Or an old coworker can use it as leverage 10-20 years down the line and she will have to relive it again.
I don’t feel bad for her at all. Sucks to be a bigot I guess but maybe just don’t be a bigot? Half of you on here would probably get fucking screwed if anyone found out about the shit you say on here and that’s why you feel for her, because you are her. Honestly, the fact she tanked herself after what was probably years and years of grinding just to get pretty much banished before she even finished training is hilarious to me. It’s like an SNL skit or some shit. Guess she was born in the wrong generation.
This is absolutely ridiculous. I am neither a Zionist nor a Anti-Semite, and hence do not have any special feelings (positive or negative) towards the Jewish people. Still, I felt the need to weigh in because I believe nuance matters in investigating incidents such as this. "Anti-Semite" is an extremely ambiguous term that can have varying degrees of intensity.
From what I remember, she said something demeaning about a fellow analyst regarding him being jewish. How r you gonna nuance your way out of that one?
But that really wasn’t my point in what you quoted. Anytime a social matter is brought up on this forum, the thread gets bombarded by vitriolic comments. Even a thread about the Queen dying devolved into people calling Africans backward savages who should be thankful they were enslaved and genocided because they got shiny buildings and the wheel. I am not surprised those same people would have sympathy for this girl because they can probably see their worst nightmare in her situation. I don’t have an iota of sympathy to give to this girl but not surprised the likes of you do.
100% correct. The level on anti-Semitism and racism on this site is surprising when considering that the vast majority of people on this site are highly educated.
Not really sure how education and racism are inversely correlated. Highly educated people might be better at masking their racism, or using fancy language to reframe the issue (ex. using terms such as "gentrification" instead of saying displace poor minorities), but that doesn't make them less racist than the less educated. Less educated people are just worse at masking it, so you will see it more openly when you do see it.
I just Googled "bofa analyst fired for antisemitic remark" and her LinkedIn profile still pops up as the 5th or 6th result.
She works at a fast-food restaurant chain now.
As a finance manager, not as a fry cook you drama queen 😂
Manager after 2 years is pretty impressive. I looked it up and the salary is $130k+. That to for 45 hour weeks.
It's still factually correct and I thought it was objectively funny to phrase it this way lol
Google remembers ;)
She was at BofA in 2019? This is 3 years old?
She was an intern at BofA in 2019, was going to go back FT in 2020, and was let go about 3 months later in 2020. Her FT experience doesn’t appear on her LinkedIn.
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