Typically on Wall Street, the issue of how men deal with their chest hair is an institutionalized thing unique to each firm. As SAC, they keep it real. Wild. Thick. Manly. None of this removal crap unless you’re on the pre-op list. At Citi, everyone is required to shave a giant V into their tuft. At Jefferies, new hires are given a glue gun and a bag and told to paste some on. For those of you who haven’t seen one up close and personal, you’ve probably long wondered how it works at Goldman Sachs. Finally–finally!– thanks to a bunch of traders taking liberties with casual Friday, we have an answer.
“It’s been getting ridiculous,” said one female analyst, who asked not to be identified. “Last Friday, there were traders walking around the floor with three buttons of their shirts undone, showing off their pecs and hairless chests.”
D-Day At Goldman [DealBook]
HOW TO SWIM LIKE LLOYD:
Depilate. Head to toe.
Yeah, but what about the ole eggs in the bird nest?
Where’s the clients’ Soviet Russia?
- guy who’s sick of Friday
At Lenny Dykstra’s shop they nitpick dingleberries out of each others chest hair.
dingleberries in their chest hair? cleveland steamers for everyone?!
She used the phrase “ridiculous” as shorthand for the phrase “ridiculously awesome up in here”. Thankfully she had the discretion to not mention the Saturday attire
For casual Fridays, I walk around with my shaved scrot hanging out of my fly. Was I not supposed to do that?
what about bank of american lynch?
My eyes are up here, sister.
V for vejazzle?
I used to work downtown with this big fat guy who had so much gray chest hair that it squeezed out of his shirt and partly covered the knot of his tie, which hung only halfway down his massive gut. On Fridays when we didn’t have to wear ties, he wore the shirt open a few buttons, and the mass of gray hair was on full display, pushing out above the undershirt.
I wish he would have shaven it, or waxed it, or burned it off, or something. It was horrible. Almost as bad as seeing Gasparino in his workout attire.
Maybe it was only a chest hair wig? :-)
Wait. . . we’re supposed to grow hair on our chest too?
I bet it’s not nearly as cool as my Merkin.
When did GS hire the Festrunk brothers?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w_zPmwvQFaM
I’ve yet to meet a Goldman employee with pecs
–Intentionally opening myself up due to boredom
I finally logged on to this piece of crap web site. Thank god you can write Bess because your IT department make coming to this site torture. You have to have the worst site infrastructure on the web.
Bitch, bitch, bitch.
You’re right, of course, but still. It seems to be getting better, no?
Sounds like a Monday at Ping Capital…
interview 23 is all about man grooming…….. and as soon as they asked me to unzip my Izod slacks to reveal my Buckwheat pubic region I knew my fate at GS and UBS would be my new home….
When I entered the room for my 18th interview at Goldman Sachs, I was met by a professionally dressed woman in her early thirties. She pointed to a computer sitting on an otherwise empty desk and said “Please log on to DealBreaker and give me your thoughts on the comments posted about our firm”. I paused for a moment, looked in her eyes and asked if she seriously expected Goldman Sachs caliber people to waste their time trying to navigate a site notorious for both its slow speed and poor design. With a hint of a smile she said “Would you be able to come back next week?”
At my firm, we unbutton from the bottom up to go for that cholo look.
Nice recovery.
i break all my buttons. i can only wear spandex
unless you’re on the pre-op list
Bess, you’re priceless