Reply to Bank of America: former green beret dies after work 120-hour week, IB associates going on strike

Forum Index » Jobs and Careers

Reply to "Bank of America: former green beret dies after work 120-hour week, IB associates going on strike"

Subject:

Emoticons





More smilies

Text Color: Font: Close Marks

[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]What salary? [/quote]

No salary is enough to work like this is it?  If you were offered $500K would you work this many hours to your death?  [/quote]

I think PP's point is that [b]people do make that choice[/b].  You could choose a sane career or a sane place to work and make a solid six figure salary, but the people that choose these insane IB jobs do it because they want to make insane money.  Historically, they've been compensated for their willingness to sacrifice their personal lives and sometimes their health. (Unlike some other jobs, like loggers -- which has the highest death rate and is NOT compensated like IB workers.)  I support workers' rights generally, but I don't think I'm crying my eyes out for the IB folks.   If they are going to get OT for working hours over 40, as PP suggested, the banks will just cut them back to the normal base salary, which is probably not what these people want.  The banks probably think that the salary they pay them already is compensating them for all the OT.  [/quote]

The real point is that working conditions that allow an employee to work himself to death should not be a legal option.[/quote]

Options

	Disable HTML in this message
	Disable BB Code in this message
	Disable smilies in this message

Review message

Search Recent Topics Hottest Topics