Goldman Sachs Trader Addicted to Facebook
Published March 10th, 2007 in Internet Tags: addicted, addiction, england, facebook, goldman sachs, internet, myspace, privacy, social networking sites, techcrunch, trader.
I started getting invites to join social networking sites around 2000. I think the first one was from a friend who had joined Orkut. Then others followed, Hi5, myspace, friendster, facebook etc. I can’t remember the rest of them. While I politely turned each invite down, I couldn’t help but feel like a curmudgeon.
I just didn’t see the point of joining a site and then spending hours and hours each day sharing with the world what I was doing, eating, wearing, etc. or putting up pictures from parties or whatever. If I wanted to share something with friends I could just, you know, call them. Or email them. The other thing that made me think twice was the whole issue of privacy.
Anyway, here’s a guy who got sucked into the whole social networking thing big time. Apprently he is a trader working for Goldman Sachs in the UK. He spends upwards of 4 hours a day on facebook and is so gone that when he got a warning from Goldman Sachs the first thing he did was put it up on his facebook page.
“It’s a measure of how warped I’ve become that, not only am I surprisingly proud of this, but in addition, the first thing I did was to post it here, and that losing my job worries me far less than losing facebook ever could.”
Its a bit creepy that Goldman’s IT department spies on their employees. But I really wonder if this is a hoax. Goldman Sachs did not get to where it is by hiring guys like Charlie.
Via TechCrunch
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they hired cramer…just kidding…glad to see u posting again
lol… yeah, but he was a broker (salesman) not a trader. I guess he still is.
lol
The email is of course a joke, no-one in HR at any firm like GS would write like that. It was posted by Charlie’s friends and created more interest than expected.
Don’t be silly, of course GS would hire ’someone like this’. Someone like what exactly — aged under 30? All of us waste time on the internet. It’s not a big deal and given the hours we work, it’s fair enough. We need a break sometime. I visit about 20 sites a day when I’m bored (and I love my job)… it’s like going for a glass of water or staring out the window for a few moments.
By the way the four hours thing is just because he tends to work with the page still open.
Rachel,
all I know is there is a line going round the block for people who would kill to work for Sachs.
@Babak: Isn’t that the case for any job? Charlie just went a li’l overboard with his obsession to stay online. He still wasn’t as bad as some people I know.