“Hahah, oh snap! That is hot. Get this though, the other day, this MD accidentally spills coffee on this analyst’s shirt. MD doesn’t really say anything, just goes on working. The analyst is moping around all day whining about his shirt. So finally, the MD drops $100 bill on the analyst’s desk and goes ‘Quit […]

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Sometimes you do feel like you’re Gordon Gekko, even though you’re just an Analyst, and other times you get assigned random stupid work like formatting Excel, crossing out names in documents and even manual labor (I’m not making this one up… full story coming later) and you feel like a peon.

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So that’s a good day as an Analyst: laughing at other peoples’ misfortunes, not having to do any real work, talking to the client on the phone over something they view as important, and leaving early to watch a moderately bad made-for-TV movie.

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