• @[email protected]
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    When I lived in DC this was my favorite thing to do at parties.

    “Congressional Staffer? Is that like a temp agency?”

    “Department of which state exactly?”

    “Yeah ok buddy and I work at the irregular tetrahedron.”

    People would get way too upset about it.

    • @kemsat
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      245 months ago

      Many of them equate career to quality of person.

    • @shalafi
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      485 months ago

      For those in the know, that is a hard roast. Why don’t you just kick him in the fork next time?!

        • Karyoplasma
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          305 months ago

          They call everyone a VP so idiot customers can brag about how some important guy gave them investment advice. It’s a scam to fool the gullible.

          • @[email protected]
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            175 months ago

            I think originally it came from banking regulations requiring high level approval before someone could do risky shit. So now everyone is a VP

            • Karyoplasma
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              165 months ago

              So, it was a legal loophole? That’s kinda even more shady lol

        • @TexasDrunk
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          135 months ago

          Most financial institutions do, even down to local banks.

          • @[email protected]
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            115 months ago

            Real estate people too. If you’re not a VP in real estate, you don’t really exist. I’ve met guys with a VP title who are like 23 years old and not even done their mbas. It just makes everyone look stupid.

        • @Aceticon
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          45 months ago

          From my experience working as an IT freelancer in the industry (so I’ve worked in a number of places), they all do that in Finance.

  • @Illuminostro
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    725 months ago

    “Then he gave his business card. I looked at the subtle off- white coloring. The tasteful thickness of it. Oh my God, it even had a watermark. He then excused himself to return some video tapes.”

    • @spirinolas
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      105 months ago

      Just a common pleb. Couldn’t get a reservation at Dorsia’s to save his life.

      • Annoyed_🦀
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        “You want my treasure? You can’t have it! I left everything I gathered together in one place. Now i need yours too.”

  • Jubei Kibagami
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    185 months ago

    You mean the Jewish purse manufacturer in France?

    • I Cast Fist
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      One of the great temples of capitalism, where money is sucked from everywhere to enrich 3 old fuckers who really should’ve died of old age 30 years ago

    • @darthelmet
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      355 months ago

      One of the banks involved in the financial meltdown of 2008.

  • @Aceticon
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    35 months ago

    Should’ve said he worked at the Vampire Squid.