June 2012
81 posts
Analysts without financial backgrounds? Now...
Credit: F/LA
When RIMM reports another terrible quarter and the...
When the MD asks the analyst why the starting cash...
Reading the press release stating your client...
Credit: female/canadian bank/IB
When Jeffrey Gundlach found out ironically MetWest...
Article: http://www.pionline.com/article/20120625/PRINTSUB/306259972
Waiting for my MDs reaction after turning in the...
Credit: M/NYC/IBD
All the analysts when the leftovers from the...
Credit: F/Calgary/IB
Euro Cup 2012
What’s happening on TV:
What’s happening in the real world:
When I saw an intern wearing a short sleeve dress...
Listening to the head of trading explain that the...
Credit: M/ Former Credit Trader/ NY/London
When traders run into Bankers @ the pub
Credit: M/ Former Credit Trader/ NY/London
When a Summer Associate hops into my support...
Credit: M/Virginia/IBD
What I would like to do being a female in IB
What I would like to do being a female in IB:
What I actually do:
Credit: F/Canada/IB
When the Ivy League SA says he knows corp finance
Credit: IB/NYC
When you tell a client to buy before earnings
If it is up 20%+:
If it is down 20%+:
Credit: A reformed sell-sider/CFA in SF
When a client calls up to correct...
Credit: A reformed sell-sider/CFA in SF
When they start reading the standard Reg FD...
At first:
Then:
Credit: A reformed sell-sider/CFA in SF
When a banker sees a girl at the club
West coast banker
East coast banker
Credit: M/Palo Alto/IB
When your MD tells you to change the colors on the...
Credit: M/IBD - This 100% actually happened.
What really goes down in the bullpen @ 3AM
NYC:
West Coast:
Credit: M/Canadian bank (Saying west coast is soft?)
Updating the model for all the different term...
Credit: Anon (At a place I don’t want to be right now)
When Leon Cooperman flips on a Taco Bell analyst...
Credit: Anon from BI
The Burnt out Analyst
So here’s the horror story that happened at the bank that I interned at. One of the analysts who worked there has been there for a couple of years and clearly looks burnt out from the last couple of weeks. We just recently hired another full time analyst and this was my last week of my internship. The burnt out analyst was doing work the night before and was basically begging one of the...
We want your good horror stories for WheninFinance
Let’s just admit, everyone has at least one good horror story working in this industry.
Stayed late on a Friday night because the associate was an anal bastard about the shade of blue in the management presentation? Burnt out analyst wheeled into the hospital? Hooked up with the only girl VP at your closing party? Even if you don’t work in finance, dated people who worked in...
Thanks to all the fans at WheninFinance, we are...
When my MD tells me on Friday at 6pm, "Add 20...
Credit: M/Palo Alto/IB
What I imagine its like to work for the abu dhabi...
Credit: F/PE
My reaction when somebody tells me they work for...
I’m like:
Credit: M / NYC /IBD
My VP after I make one tiny mistake on the bounded...
Why I go to Monday meetings sometimes
When we give project names to live deals to make...
When We Take SAs Out for Social Events
Credit: Chicago, Male, IB
Exit Opportunities after banking/or any type of...
Pre 2007
Today:
When the analysts find a new 3LAU releases on...
Credit: Anon from Twitter
When I interviewed at Houlihan and a VP went on an...
Me:
Him:
Credit: Female finance in LA quotes “Hilarious as it came out of nowhere and it apparently is a reoccurring (legal) problem there. Whoops!”
When the agent came back to shake the tree for the...
Credit: F/PE
This is what I want to do when I overhear the MD...
and asking for junior resources…
Credit: Anon Chick, please ID urself
Sucks for Allen Stanford today
110 years in jail, think he’ll be back in time for the next financial crisis?
http://www.businessinsider.com/allen-stanford-sentenced-to-110-years-in-prison-2012-6
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When my buy side firm doesn't block porn, but...
What do we do day to day again…gamble gamble
What I really wanted to say to the senior people...
Credit: M/NYC/No more finance
When I found out the girl I met at the club works...
Sorry what I really think of people at the Stern...
Credit: M/NYC/PE (I’m guessing some Columbia alum)
The analysts with non-financial backgrounds
Credit: Female finance that doesn’t want to be ID’ed, we love her anyway
Trying to explain myself when my MD is ripping me...
Credit: F / LA / Mezz Fund (This sounds dirty)
When GS rejected me for the second time
Credit: F/PE
How I feel about peer 360 reviews
Credit: F/PE
The 10th and final "My staffer on a friday...
Credit: M/Anon
Trying to decide to buy $20 FB puts when it's...
Credit: M / SF / Venture
I was out clubbing and bought this shirt off some...
Credit: F / LA / IB (if I was out clubbing I’d buy your shirt off instead, and a drink)
