It’s intern season on Wall Street and hoards of 20-something aspiring investment bankers are letting the social media world know about it.
While tales of mindless tasks such as grabbing coffee for your snarky boss, answering phones and making photo copies was once reserved for happy hour with fellow unpaid summer workers, an app is now letting these interns chart their woes in real time.
Budding bankers – or NYU students masquerading as them – are taking to anonymous app Yik Yak to post about their intern experiences and mock other New York-based firms. Often posted under the thread called “The Interning Wolves of Wall Street”, interns make fun of their own experiences, other banks and overall junior-burger culture.
Akin to Twitter, Yik Yak gained notoriety after being banned from grade schools for cyber bullying (the app switches off if you are in the vicinity of little ones learning).
Since the app is open to everyone it’s unclear whether the future financial wizards are indeed the ones sharing their thoughts and complaints. But regardless, it’s boosted Yik Yak’s New York-based activity for the summer and invoked many a chuckle among managers in midtown.
From chronicling tidbits of information about their manager’s cringe worthy habits to the headdesk-worthy lameness of fellow interns to bashing the summer workers at rival firms, Yik Yak is proving an entertaining timewaster for city folk this season.
One word of caution – switch off your location. If you’re in a small team, sharing your boss’s bathroom activity and place of work could result in a rather uncomfortable end-of-summer review.
Here are a few of the offending (and often Goldman Sachs-related) posts:
-GS interns play boys-only Twister on Saturday nights.-Boss just sent me a spreadsheet with 350 000 rows and 45 columns and told me to organize it in 30 minutes. Easily can take 3 weeks doing it.
-Just got caught napping by my boss and he tells me sorry did I wake you so I said nope I was just praying #onmygame.
-GS interns brag to their non-banker friends about working on weekends.-GS interns eat lunch alone while they constantly refresh yik yak, oh wait never mind that’s me.
-GS interns spend their mornings inline at the Shake Shack ordering lunch for the trading floor.
-GS interns eat at the chum bucket.
-GS interns cut their burgers in half.
-Glad to see us douchebags from Wall Street Oasis got internships.
-I got excited when my boss sent me an e-mail that was flagged with the subject “urgent.” Turns out he just wanted me to get coffee for him. #internlife.
-Drawing squares on the desktop with the mouse. That’s as productive as I feel like being today.
-I just saw a GS intern take his laptop into the toilet. #gutsy.
-Nothing scarier than listening to your boss get yelled at by his boss while you do something that will only cost your group $42 million if you fuck up.
-Just overheard a VP drop the N-bomb while describing one of the kids from my analyst class to his associate…not much I can do. #diversity
-I’m going to take the interns out and get them to black out. I am a kind god.
-Wonder what our bosses would say after looking at each interns recent yaks. Would be funny to watch from the outside.-HR just emailed me asking who I was. I’ve been here for a month…guess my boss never registered me with the company. #intern.
-UBS interns take the bus to 299 Park.-GS interns claim they are not racist as their shadow is black.-What are GS interns? From what I understand it just means white people.
-Stalking people on LinkedIn rather than Facebook, this must be what growing up is like.
-Flash just went off when I was taking a picture of an ugly coworker, luckily we are on the 31st floor and there is a perfectly good window for me to jump out of.
-Only at UBS would there be a male receptionist…where the ladies at?
-Two UBS interns are literally having a Yu-Gi-Oh card dual on the steps of 299 park during their lunch break.
-Office milfs think I’m the f$cking computer whisperer, all I’ve ever done is turn it off and on again.-I’m in a suit and tie, carrying a briefcase. Does it really look like I want to go on your bus tour right now? #intern life.
-Yes dude. Please brush your teeth in the office. That’s what I want to see. Thank you so much.
-Found out my manager was on his two week vacation. Immediately got excited about not having responsibility for the next two weeks. Then realized I haven’t had any all summer.
-GS interns take yaks from Capitol Hill interning politicians and repost them here.-Zero chance my boss believes that every single day “sorry the 6 was delayed again”.
-GS interns only use gender-neutral pronouns.-GS interns get their news from Buzzfeed.
-Looks like Yik Yak is going to lose 80% of its NYC user base when all these interns leave.
