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The rental shuttle line at SMF 🤦♂️
I miss the corporate welfare of all my free mealz
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Stereotypes and sexism all in one post! Lovely, OP, lovely 🤦🏽♀️
My alma mater generates about the same number of consultants and i bankers. I can say that the negative qualities you mention exist in equal measure across the industries (and genders.)
Christ. Masculinity is so fucking fragile in this world.
They only have less time to complain
Good point on the bragging. Bragging would not go over well in most BCG offices at all.
It's not the 80s anymore. Alpha males like what you are describing are a joke at best, toxic at worst.
@OP that's because you met up with your buddies visiting their town. Of course they're gonna tell you the sweet things they're up to, at the very least not complain about trivial things. When you hang out with consultants every day talking about mostly consulting stuff, of course you'll hear about the petty day to day stuff
Being a chauvinist doesn't sound that manly, bro. Sounds like they have insecurities. Class is soft skill. It has always been soft skill and how you hold yourself. I feel "manlier" in mc than I did as an analyst ("bitch") in IB. You're looking at them through rose colored glasses.
So many pansies on this app
Wrong. People in Finance don't wear suspenders.
Bankers not whiny? What world are you living in?
Most of the IB lot I know are seriously chauvinistic. My cousin tells jokes that make me, an ex Navy pilot, uncomfortable.
EY1, hear me out. I understand I'm adding to the stereotype but I feel like the standard consulting personality isn't that masculine or tough. Hear guys bragging about trivial things like spg points, alt travel, tumi bags. Don't usually see the fire in the eyes toughness that is all about closing the next big deal.
I've also noticed that the work environment is so much softer and supportive of low performing employees that shouldn't be given multiple chances and should be let go. In banking that generally doesn't happen.
A LOT of what we do is glorified babysitting, e.g. guiding people through change or getting something done without steamrolling someone or making somebody look bad.
No stereotypes thank you
I understand that I made a generalization but after spending a few weeks in NY and meeting with a ton of banking professionals, they all seem to be about money and closing deals, rather than worrying about trivial things like how they can get a hotel to give them a 1000 extra points for a bed stain
Consultants need to be more sleuthy so macho behaviors are not always helpful
Pwc3 why do you say that
Is the an IB fishbowl? I guarantee they bitch about stuff. If you want manly, go be a navy seal.