Banking and the office quickie
It’s Valentine’s Day and love is in the air.
Couples are all at their ceremonial dinners, eagerly awaiting all the wanton debauchery that will follow.
Single men and women are planning their own nights out, hoping to capitalize on the sad loneliness and desperation of their brethren.
Some however are not so lucky.
Stuck on a desk with only a computer offering romantic solutions, the long hours of banking are no help in the love department for some of our peers.
But fear not young banker crunching away on excel, you may not be getting any tonight, but I have some consolation for you:
You are a stud.
A stud in the office apparently, and more likely to be banging away at the photocopiers compared to accountants, so says Vault in a recent survey of theirs regarding office romances.
“44% of bankers say they've never had a workplace tryst, compared to 53% of accountants.”
Minus all the liars that’s probably a respectable number.
Not so surprisingly, most bankers with office relations stay away from long term relationships:
The average respondent was most likely to engage in an ongoing but casual relationship (29%), while bankers favored random office hookups (23%). Accountants bucked the trend and leaned more toward a long-term, serious relationship (19%).
And among other things, it also states that the shaky economy has become a pseudo-aphrodisiac, and that bankers are more prone to porno plot twists in their office relationships than others.
“Bankers were also more likely to get caught in the middle of that tryst: compared with 0% of accountants, 3.7% of bankers said they had been walked in on.”
OK...
We’ve had threads here over the years of analysts having crushes on their associates, of drooling over the sexy sales VP, and daydreams of relations with the HR staff.
Some of them were real, most were hilarious, but none bore fruit.
So with that, I ask you monkeys; are office romances that prevalent on the street nowadays?
Where do they do it? Details please.
And would you?
It’s a slow night so let’s get some dirt on here to shake things up.
Personally I don't shit on my own backyard, but the big desk in the corner office does look ripe to go Caligula on.
Workplace tryst? Don't bank on it.
I was actually going to post a thread asking if analysts ever got Valentines night off.. but then I figured I'd only get responses like "Fuck no; if you want the night off go work in the BO or PJC hedge fund"
I got more ass bartending than I ever did in finance. Gods indeed.
That's because you're back office.
I made out with one of the chick bankers from the nat res group at a bar, but have avoided each other since. I hear about it all the time tho, mainly between jr girls and mid level guys, doesn't surprise me.
One time in Iceland...
There was a time when Kaupthing was the wildest thing going...
Hmm tell me more
What are you talking about? I think it says something about you that people remember you from thread-to-thread as the back office tool pretending to be front office. I'm not following you from thread-to-thread, dude -- I'm too busy WORKING to bother doing that.
he has more bananas than you
and his reply was actually funny
"I got more ass bartending than I ever did in finance. Gods indeed. That's because you're back office."
I'm sick and tired of the petty shit that is aimed at anything related to the Back-Office. It's terribly distasteful and does not make pleasant reading. Personally, I don't understand the derogatory sentiment.
Milkman84, you should go out and pick up a girl. It sounds like you need it.
The derogatory sentiment is aimed at the fact that he doesn't work in investment banking yet doles out advice as if he does.
^^^ I agree
I have a girlfriend. I know this is the internet, but you'll have to take my word. In all seriousness, I don't use my job to pick up chicks; I prefer relationships to seeking out one-night stands.
Milkman you sir are the reason that people in high finance are hated by the general public how arrogant can you be. You work in FO big fucking whoop. Stop picking on UFO because of his job. You said you don't pick up girls because of your job. But you pick on other men because of there job's. Your a class act, just thought I'd let you know.
Lastly, since when can someone not give advice because they don't have a first hand experience?
All things considered, back office, in the grand scheme is NOT a terrible thing. Are there better things? Sure. I'd rather play center field for the Red Sox than be in any office but that isn't going to happen. BO sucks but so do most jobs. All things considered, you're still making more than most of your peers and not getting called in or having to stay late(r). I'm not BO but I don't really see where all the hate comes from.
I dont know about you guys but ever since I got into banking I've been at it like Don Draper.
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