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4 R( n2 F2 B) y3 d& o' v+ \Swimming_with_Sharks_My_Journey_into_the_World_of_the_Bankers6 m& \. X0 s* C4 W
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This is an Evening Standard Book of the Year 2015. Joris Luyendijk, an investigative journalist, knew as much about banking as the average person: almost nothing. Bankers, he thought, were ruthless, competitive, bonus-obsessed sharks, irrelevant to his life. And then he was assigned to investigate the financial sector. Joris immersed himself in the City for a few years, speaking to over 200 people - from the competitive investment bankers and elite hedge-fund managers to downtrodden back-office staff, reviled HR managers and those made redundant in the regular 'culls'. Breaking the strictly imposed code of secrecy and silence, these insiders talked to Joris about what they actually do all day, how they see themselves and what makes them tick. They opened up about the toxic hiring and firing culture. They confessed to being overwhelmed by technological and mathematical opacity. They admitted that when Lehman Brothers went down in 2008 they hoarded food, put their money in gold and prepared to evacuate their children to the countryside. They agreed that nothing has changed since the crash. Joris had a chilling realisation. What if the bankers themselves aren't the real enemy? What if the truth about global finance is more sinister than that?8 i) F* v; c, D
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& i0 a" B* ?. p转的读后感：
! h# L9 P4 Z! F 一心向钱看的金融世界到底是如何看待自己, 看待别人, 看待生活.+ [1 }) N: A- [* {7 }1 D7 l! q/ S% s+ O
睿智, 冷静, 思维敏捷, 几乎是这些bankers的代名词.# ?/ j l, v+ w4 c
效益则是bankers能否在金融世界生存下去的唯一标准.
( f9 `, L* n. x5 D) u3 Q 迅速/敏感(针对突发事件要有迅速作出反应), 压力(同行的, 上司的, 亲朋的, 社会的), 缺觉(熬夜是常态), 随时待命(假期中的你随时有可能被召回), 随意(针对裁员来讲)是金融世界的特点.+ ^+ g! y( q1 I+ n
跳槽在金融世界就是家常便饭.
+ y* C& R4 K# ~$ j* p1 A 金融世界里的一切都不要用社会上的道德去衡量, 也不要带着情感去揣测, 法律+内部规则才是他们必须要遵守的框架(他们也只用游走在其边缘).4 ?/ b' v* I& T, w
有人是冲着工资去的, "那的确很吸引人"; 有人是一开始喜欢, 后来受不了那些疯狂到与现实社会难以相容的文化氛围而逃离的; 也有乐在其中, 无比享受的, 高唱着"Another One Bites the dust". 被称为宇宙主宰的他们, 视客户为提线木偶, 能敲一笔的要狠狠敲上一笔, 不能敲的想办法也要敲上一笔.
1 \6 y% \3 `6 k# l 自私的基因, 自私的内心, 自私的人, 自私的文化, 自私的银行与金融, 人各为已在这里表现得淋漓尽致.- N$ I! _) D9 I7 V& |1 B# e
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