Friday, Oct 24, 2008
Makes me wonder if Lucy was at the dinner party.
FT.com: Ask Lucy: Should I be ashamed for being an investment banker?
At a dinner party last Saturday I was asked by a fellow guest what I did and I said I was an investment banker. I might as well have said I was a paedophile. Suddenly the whole table – all friends of my wife from the art world – turned on me with such venom I was really taken aback. I tried to defend myself by saying that I had nothing to be ashamed of in the work that I do in M&A, but the more I argued the more hostile the other guests became.
Next time this happens – and I fear there will be a next time – should I accept guilt for what isn’t my fault, or should I lie and say I’m a librarian?
Investment banker, male, 42
Posted by lukeskywalker @ 10:11 AM (464 views) Add Comment
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1. Charlie Brooker said...
"Suddenly the whole table – all friends of my wife from the art world – turned on me with such venom I was really taken aback"
You reap what you sow.
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3. charlie brooker said...
"Suddenly the whole table – all friends of my wife from the art world – turned on me with such venom I was really taken aback"
Doubtless this individual drives an expensive exotic car in which he has enjoyed metapahorically driving over the homeless* on the way to the opera - and he expects our sympathy!
You reap what you sow.
* including many HPCers.
4. icarus said...
Best responses:
"Say you work for the government, this is partly true"
"The art community is more loathesome than most AND it is capitalist pigs like bankers that afford them their folly".
5. Mr Plumbase said...
Redeem yourself, jump off the nearest tall building.
6. renting2 said...
"Investment banker, male, 42"
If you want to make your 43rd birthday ........................
7. sneaker said...
If it was me, I'd be ashamed to ask such a dumb question!
8. icarus said...
.....or quote Warhol's "art is what you can get away with" and say you are just like them.
9. theboltonfury said...
what a terrible dinner party
a set of luvvies and a banker. I'd rather drink my own pi55 than receive an invite for their next get-together
10. timmy t said...
Hmmm... a bunch of people who think a pile of bricks arranged in a certain way is worth millions, having a go at someone for making money unscrupulously... pots... kettles...
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12. drewster said...
I think the Telegraph's Alex put it succinctly:
13. charlie brooker said...
I especially enjoyed
"Next time the topic will probably have shifted to Madonna’s divorce, and you will be returned to the status you probably always had: smug, boring, philistine, too rich for your own good and an eccentric choice of husband for your nice, arty wife."
Mua-ha-ha!!
14. icarus said...
...and a year earlier this artistes were talking about how much they'd made on their properties.
15. icarus said...
"these"