Stupid WSO Sayings
“Lights Out,” “Go to bat,” any other cringeworthy phrases that I’m missing? Who speaks like this in reality?
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"STFU 2nd year Analyst"
LOL so I guess you say these types of things in real life????
This isn't specific to WSO, but I detest the term "Rockstar Analyst." Sorry gents, but we're in a boring, rugged, and mostly sweaty industry. Please stop trying to make it sound glamorous. Nothing quite 'rockstar' about cranking numbers on Excel all day and working anxiety-inducing hours.
Very true. Nothing rockstar about fixing bullshit comments or changing fonts for the 15th time at 2:00AM either.
This is always my mental image when I read "rockstar analyst"
like that scene in Silicon Valley where they refer to the sweaty coders as "Stallions. Each one more glorious than the last."
Haha this is great. We aren't splitting the atom out here or curing cancer. The dude just didn't fuck up often; we don't need to crown him king of the land.
“Don’t look back” is also overused when discussing school x vs. school y.
"Hindsight is 20/20"
"Elite Boutique"
Good one. No one says EB in real life, everyone just says boutique. Everyone in finance knows Evercore and peer firms are great.
My favorite on here is when kids argue about whether certain firms are "officially considered an EB/BB/UMM/whatever" as if those are real designations.
Yeah also tired of the RBC, Nomura, and DB jokes. They are overdone at this point.
yea I agree, those firms are jokes
Agreed. People need to stop joking about RBC not being a BB.
That and incessant college & bank preftige rankings by high school and college kids
"Blah blah blah blah (Target - HYP)"
"I'm at a top firm (think GS, JPM, Tobin & Co.)..."
Can confirm
Well done, Slugger.
The "think.." comment is so fucking common on this site.
Everything is good in moderation.
WSO has a bunch of overachievers who consider anything less than being top 0.001% in the world to be embarrassing.
Eg hating your life and doubting yourself because GS/MS/JPM rejected you and you are “STUCK” with CS/UBS type of bank. If that isnt complete BS idk what is.
I rant about this often and my advice is, again, to take everything in moderation. Looooooots of life-changing, useful info but also lots of BS
Tl;dr im a bit off topic but Prestige.
“Bump”
"Hey guys considering applying to these firms could you rank them based on lifestyle, comp, dealfow, hours, pay, etc: proceeds to name 15 banks that work on very different deals, focus on different parts of the market, different cities, etc
or the "Hey so haven't heard back from HR in like 30 minutes after the interview, am I going to get hired? Did they like me? Did I do well? Should I follow up with HR? Should I ask my contact what the status is? Anything I can do to make sure I get selected? Should I visit the office and ask? Should I write a letter?" and on and on and on
bump
“Bump”
I went to Rutgers.
Those guys who use acronyms to look cool. I get that it’s easier to shorten phrases like “Goldman Sachs: Technology, Media and Telecomms”, but honestly these guys think throwing a couple of choice acronyms suddenly makes the author seem all cool and shit. Especially when it’s someone not yet in the industry asking a genuine question.
“I’m at GS TMT, and I cannot stress how important it is that ur from a HSW background. I interned at HL, GS, MS, JPM, DB (mostly worked on M&A although also did a bit of RX and LevFin) all at once. I practised sitting in front of a screen for 29 hours a day and I literally invented DCM and the entire concept of PE. To get back to your question of whether or not bankers get a decent work/life balance, I earn 50k a day so fuck u lol lmao rofl.
Ps. Fuck Jefferies.”
The average guy would have a very hard time figuring this out, so please for the love of god, give simple answers to simple questions.
A banker can't do that since a banker's career is essentially taking something very simple and over complicating it so that they can convince potential customers to hire them to deal with this very "complex" problem.
Spot on. At least 50% of finance is confusing terminology and unnecessary complication
Isn't that a word-for-word description of consulting?
Like 20 “Can confirm” messages on the same thread is the dumbest fucking thing ever. Just sb or say something else damnit...... I’m sorry I’m hot about this
Can confirm
nice
"AA is RaCiSt big bad boogeyman, giving 15 spots to completely unqualified people when they're not even white."
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“I go a target (Wharton/Columbia/Cornell/Princeton/ uNiVeRsItY oF vIrGiNiA)”
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