Some of the best ways to quit your job
So the more and more I talk to other analysts about work, it really hits me that no one, not one single person likes being there. Its pretty amazing when you think about it. [...]
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Investment banking bonuses and following that yellow brick road
Its Bonus Time and I can’t stop singing in my head “its the most wonderful time of the year” like Macaulay Culkin in Home Alone 2 when he gets to spend the day in the [...]
Getting to the bottom of my weight gain
This morning I had a choice that has traditionally been my decision, ripped away from me. You see, every morning I wake up, go straight to my cupboards and stand there for at [...]
That moment when you spend too much time in Excel
I’m currently modelling to distract myself from having just witnessed the grossest thing I’ve ever seen at work – I just saw one of the oldest, sleaziest, tannest, [...]
The dreaded Friday work bombs
It’s almost 4pm on a Friday and miraculously I’ve managed to spend the entire day online shopping. With my smooth avoidance of work I feel like that last olive in the [...]
What to do when you get asked to do a random research task…pretend to do it
So this morning my MD has asked me to look for [insert random, tiny, irrelevant research task which I know can’t be found because I’ve already looked, here], so I’m [...]
I have a confession…I just cried at work
I’m eating a can of beetroot for lunch today and I’m happy to admit that I have been truly impressed by said can of beetroot. Its such an underestimated vegetable that it [...]
When your director returns from the dead…I mean returns to work
Thanks to a well devised strategy to serve corporate greed, executed through cancelling my overbooked flight, I’ve managed to find myself spending Australia Day at the [...]
Preganant women make me want to hurl
Minor incident in the bathroom which was disappointingly not poo related. Was in the cubicle doing my business – which includes not only bodily fluid excretion but also [...]
Can’t Be Fucked (CBF) Syndrome is real and it’s reaching epidemic proportions
Today at work, I was reflecting on the old adage ‘Get Rich or Die Tryin’. It might be the years of corporate greed that’s starting to seep into my bloodstream, but [...]
THE ESCAPE KEY 