City workers salaries

studentphil

Gabriel-Ernest wrote:

So if you've decided that the system can't be changed and nothing practical can be done, why are you berating others for reaching the same conclusion?

I dont really blame any person on their own. I know it is completely natural to be within the system and not to question it.

piper5

Edinburghlass wrote:

So what was the conclusion drawn on the TV programme that featured this subject last night then studentphil, obviously where you got your thread start from.

thats what i thought, but i never saw it, so cant comment on conclusion!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

studentphil

Edinburghlass wrote:

So what was the conclusion drawn on the TV programme that featured this subject last night then studentphil, obviously where you got your thread start from.

I think it just showed complete selfish living to be honest.

peter999

quidsinquentin wrote:

Post #69:
I know two people who work in this area in London. Neither is in a top position but both earn vast amounts compared to the average. And they are both tw*ts. If they were not boyfriend/husbands of close friends we'd have nothing to do with them.

No-one I know likes them, (except that when they arrive they've always got something expensive as a present). They have no redeeming qualities that I can think of, and as reduceditem says, their sole goal in life is to make/produce money/profit. I always find it difficult to deal with them, as they're so immoral - they have not the slightest compunction about treading on anyone (even their OH's). They make Gordon Gekko look tame.

The stories they tell are always about deals or effects of deals, or how they've just sh*t on another worker - colleague or opponent. These people would let you die for a profit - seriously.

If these are not the top of the tree, imagine what the ones at the top are like, and what they'd do for a profit.

That's the truth of it.

It's about making deals on massive assets & of course they get massive salaries & bonuses. It's nothing to do with amount of work or pressure.

A few people work in industries where there is a lot of money floating about, most people do not. They are making money off vast amounts of pension/company/government assets.

It's not a fair world.
These City people (& their friends) have overinflated opinions of themselves & their importance.

It's the people in the low pay jobs that keep this country going.

peter999

Quasar

peter999 wrote:

That's the truth of it.

It's about making deals on massive assets & of course they get massive salaries & bonuses.
It's nothing to do with amount of work or pressure.

A few people work in industries where there is a lot of money floating about, most people do not. They are making money off vast amounts of pension/company/government assets.

It's not a fair world.

It's the people in the low pay jobs that keep this country going.

peter999

Yes they too, without doubt. A rich economy depends on workers at both end of the spectrum, plus all those in between. We couldn't do without highly paid "capital movers" any more than we could do without the worker who cleans our offices or streets.

This is what makes economics such an intricate affair: everything is interrelated and touches many other things. The cleaning company that employs the floor mopper has probably City investments of some kind. Ditto the catering company that employs the sandwich maker.

studentphil

I am open to I could be wrong about city firms, but I doubt they will ever give people like Philosophy students a look inside.

Sugar_Coated_Owl

I doubt that you would be an ideal candidate to work in the city Phil.

feelinggood_2

studentphil wrote:

I am open to I could be wrong about city firms, but I doubt they will ever give people like Philosophy students a look inside.

Yeah, I don't think so. Not like my brother is a Philosophy graduate working in Canary Wharf

studentphil

razorbladekisses wrote:

I doubt that you would be an ideal candidate to work in the city Phil.

Because I think too much out of the box for them.

Quasar

studentphil wrote:

Because I think too much out of the box for them.

How do you know that? Do you know what they have to do day in and day out? Do you know the sort of thinking they have to do in a fraction of a second? Can you keep in mind several share values at the same time and work their possible rise or fall in the next few days, and by how many points? Have you ever even thought about the things I'm telling you?

Phil, sorry for being blunt but you need to find the box first, before you can think in or out of it