The Millennials Are Winning: Goldman Sachs Goes Business Casual
Hot news on Wall Street today for all you B school try hards out there. Alexa zoom in
Translation: your clients are starting to complain that you’re the last guys in the room dressed like Gordon Gekko
So you pivot to Casual Dress which is just vague enough to get mad at new hires when you’re having a bad day. Not casual enough, Geoffrey! Keeps us pussy millennials on our toes while still giving Corporate Recruiting enough ammunition to spread the word at career fair that Goldman Sachs is dedicated to creating a welcoming environment. And how do we know that? Because now Frank wears khakis on Mondays and Fridays.
In reality I’d be furious if I were Frank. It’s March 5th. You don’t expand the dress code after the worst two months of the year. That’s when a flexible dress code really matters – when the weather is shit and your seasonal depression is riding high. The single worst thing about that time of year is wearing nice clothes to formal places like your investment banking office. Fuck that. I’d rather be laying brick in a … nevermind. Now I’m just being dramatic.
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Regardless, if you’re still working an office job where you can’t where jeans and a polo on a regular basis then you’re probably being abused in some emotional, physical, psychological, etc. capacity. At least at Goldman Sachs they paid you extra for it. Not all of you suckers can say the same. Some of you are on that wardrobe grind:
Stuffing yourself into 34-38 inches of extremely hard working fabric, wearing the same 5-7 ties every day for years. That’s not a life for anyone, and certainly not what Goldman Sachs wants Their People enduring. No they want you to be creative. They want flexibility. And most importantly they want you filling out those fucking time sheets.
EFC: “Everyday I work until really late, average out 12-14 hours a day. Subtracting sleep time, I only have about 3 hours for myself every day,” she writes in her last blog post. “There are many things I wish to do with those three hours. I want to write, read and also spare some time to take care of myself.”
Even so, Le thinks she’s hit upon a method: she’s worked out three things she wants to do during those three hours and assigned an hour to each, consistently. If you want work your way through all the books you want to read, assign an hour a day to reading, says Le. If you want to get fit: an hour a day to exercise. To write? An hour a day to writing.
Le attributes her approach to, “task decomposition in project management theory:” “Before I know it, this consistency allows me to write for 20-30 hours, or to read and exercise for just as long.”
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