Lesson 1, according the first chapter of Why I Left Goldman Sachs (“I Don’t Know, But I’ll Find Out”): the difference between a sandwich and a salad.
You needed to be very entrepreneurial and creative. Adding value as an intern often began with getting coffee for the desk every day; frequently, interns also did breakfast and lunch runs. You would literally take a pen and pad and go around to the ten or fifteen people on the desk and take everyone’s order. It’s a strange concept, but Wall Street looks at attention to detail as an indicator of how people are going to do in their job. If a kid keeps messing up the lunch order, he’s probably going to mess up something else down the line.
I remember one managing director– a few years after I’d started working at the firm– who was very sensitive about his lunch orders. He didn’t eat onion or certain other things. One day he asked an intern for a cheddar cheese sandwich, and the kid came back with a cheddar cheese salad. The kid handed it to him so proudly: “Here’s your cheddar cheese salad.” I was sitting next to the MD, so I remember the incident well. He opened the container, looked at the salad, looked up at the kid, closed the container, and threw it in the trash. It was a bit harsh, but it was also a teaching moment. The managing director joked about it with the kid afterward; he didn’t make a big deal about it. The lesson was learned.
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He is more masculine than you.
-Science
Sounds like a really good read so far, glad they leaked the highlights.
-No one
um. what?
The fuck is a cheddar cheese salad?
tag
Back in the old day; MD takes dump in said container and then hands it back to the kid and tells him that consulting might be a better career choice…
-Not Geazer Gas trader, but an old veteran of WS trading floors
what did you expect?
-everyone who read the op-ed
"It's a strange concept, but Wall Street looks at attention to detail as an indication of how people are going to do in their job."
Attention to detail is a strange concept that is unique to Wall Street?
Memo to self: never fly South African Airways.
worst hazing story ever
Intern should be thankful he didn't get it dumped on his head.
Don't quit your day jo… Oh wait
All my MD ever asked me to do was to put the lotion in the basket
Why I Left Goldman Sachs : Liar's Poker :: Cheddar Cheese Salad : Cheddar Cheese Sandwich
Issuing a preemptive "cool story, bro" to all forthcoming leaked chapters
I don't get it, it could be much worse if MD had tossed kid's salad
LB
I toss intern's salads all the time
-L Tilton
That was an amazing, really awesome Wall Street anecdote! And the MD joked about it with the kid, even!! Note to self: get this on Kindle asap!
This book sounds like amateur hour.
- Maccabi games silver medalist
Some dumb WSJ article from last week.
Bald guys. Try to keep up.
That MD was being pretty lactose-intolerant towards this poor interns mistake.
no story about searching for upticks or quotes on underwater aviation, inc?
Tough but fair.
it puts the lotion in the Basket!
If Goldman has come to little fucks not getting railed for messing up Shake Shack orders or god forbid Chiptole orders then maybe I will give some credence to this whole "Lost their identity bull shit"
you're new, right?
He couldn't get the upticks because he couldn't find the keys to the clearinghouse– even when he went to Jersey City.
Completely off topic, but any TV Ad Exec that approves the running a J.G. Wentworth should be subjected to public flogging while the damn ad runs on continuous loop on his ipod.
There. I feel better now.
One time the guy at my local deli put mayo on my sandwich after I EXPLICITLY asked for no mayo, so I stabbed him in the hand.
- WB Jennings
cheddar cheese salad is the rhodes scholar national finalist of cheddar cheese products, behind the cheddar cheese sandwich, obviously.
read it again
Goldman's official position on Smith's book just changed from nervous to embarrassed.
um, yeah
Highly doubtful – unless maybe you mean they are embarrassed that they hired him in the first place.
That's what I was going for – now I'm embarrassed.
Goldman's position on this remains "doggie"…
Was it Uncle's? Vavala's? God forbid Tony's in New Canaan?
Either way, I'm sure the lesson was learned.
Hell yes.
- Sleestack
This guy gets a seven figure advance and I can't even get the bar to let me put on a like, 2X leveraged forward marg position* without posting cash collateral, meh.
*And they weren't even interested in all the potential upside for them vs. just selling me regular margs, and I had made all the charts and everything, what gives?
Can't wait for his follow-up book: "Why I Look Like a F***ing Googly-Eyed Cantelope from Outer Space."
Worst comment ever.
Yet there you go throwing your hat in the ring.
Black pilots ?
He looks like Karl Pilkington…and writes like Karl Pilkington
Motives. Examine.
At least they buy they own food. Back in the days when I was an intern, my MD used to eat my muffin every morning.
But if you add "fuck" it's not plagiarism, it's awesomeness
1st sentence: Ebonics?
2nd sentence: euphemism?
You should read mine.
- A. Lohse
Goldman Sachs not top bucket shop on Wall street no more. They HR say english too poor, so I no offer. I get offer from JP morgan and purchase dream exotic car in first year. I drive my bmw z4 by goldman building laughing, you lose, again lol. I sometimes put top down even when weather chilly lol
In Soviet Russia, intern wears cheddar cheese on face after major screwup.
I gave you my bank details, never got the $80 million, can I get an update?
No sweetie, for breakfast you ate MY muffin
- L Tilton
Stop.
Would it surprise anyone that he got the 7 figs to write a salacious book and then squeezed 7 figs from GS to pen something innocuous?
-fellow crafty Jew
Fucking
there, fixed
I said: no salt, no salt.
I feel like the entire episode could have been avoided if the MD didn't explain his order like a faggot. Next time maybe he'll ask for, you know "a grilled cheese."
Our MD always made us get his coffee. When we got the full time to analyst, we had our coffees delivered by the new interns.
Also, interns could NEVER write down the orders. Imagine remembering 6 people's exact orders, and let me tell you – some of them wanted the strangest most detailed combos.
Interesting! You should write a book!
Where is the leaked content?
I once heard it said that the best training for a successful trader was a stint as a short order cook.
his eyes are too far apart.
Best leaked part went down his Mama's leg…. should have been a bl*wjob.
-His Mom
"tell me about"
maybe the author has a faggish memory
Chapter 2: How you took a dump in the Goldman bathroom could make or break your career. I remember this one associate who was top of his class at Wharton and wicked smart. He walked into the can with an Us magazine discreetly tucked under his arm. A Managing Director passing him out the door pulled it from his arm, tossed it in the garbage and handed him his copy of the Bank Credit Analyst. A harsh lesson indeed but a valuable one.
wall street is boring
Wanted Cheddar Cheese sandwich, intern brought CDX.NA.IG.9 instead
Dude was an a*****e and wasted perfectly good food. Has my complete disrespect, and clearly has no idea how to properly run a business, or be a manager. Bad with people, and wasteful with resources.
Yourself . Kill
- Red Tails
First intern who actually believed the "attention to detail" line about getting lunch. They really just want someone to get their lunch and not screw it up. No one actually believes its an indication of being a good banker.
you called?
You can say "article" here. Fixed it….
Stop it please.
Right…well said. About time someone stood up for the cheese salads of the world.
Thanks for that valuable insight. Always a please to hear from you, champ.
Chapter 3: Once I stayed in the office all night fixing the fonts on a powerpoint deck – and nobody ever said "thanks".
*Their, fixed
Citi Grammar Quant
We fronted $1.5mm for this crap?
-Who ever thought it would be a good idea to give this guy a book deal.
The officical GS Intern Cheddar Cheese Salad Receipe
1 can (29 oz.) green gage plums, drained and pits removed
1/4 cup lemon juice
2 tablespoons sugar
1/4 teaspoon salt
1 cup shredded Cheddar cheese
1 cup chilled heavy cream, whipped
1 or 2 drops green food coloring
It's that thing where a woman of questionable hygiene shoves her butt in your face.
-Stefon
Smeared all over the pages of the book.
Can't wait til Geazer Oil Trader realizes you confused him with a gas guy…
Mind the details, Tonto.