King City snipes

You have to feel badly for the City boys, really. Banking is a tough game. Wearing bespoke shirts and ties made out of gold-leaf must be a bummer. And not only do the suited and booted of the financial kingdom have to shoulder the blame for having tripped up the ecomony, they have to feel guilty about City culture too. Mervyn King has put it to them. And when the governor of the Bank of England raps knuckles, he hits the money. Yuppies across the City must have their heads bowed in shame. The King has let it be known: all that jostling for bonuses is, apparently, really unattractive.

Really unattractive! What now, even in those nice threads?

Of course, if we were deeply unattractive City boys, our moral fibre probably wouldn't stretch to head-bowing. Putting ourselves in the quaking but nicely buffed loafers of a credit-cruncher financier, we would most likely be more concerned about Life Without The Bonus.

King's suggestion that the financial industry is the only viable career option is a moot point. Maybe it was, but we're not so sure we want in on the game now. What with all those executive head rollings...

Image looted from Jessica Shannon's photo stream

Written by Nicole on 29 Apr 2008 4:59 PM. Permalink