Make no mistake about it, printing is the main activity of any day. All books are over 50 pages long. Every banker has an aversion to single sided printing. Even if the book is 400 pages long, single sided is just NOT allowed.
Books should be used to decorate desks in the slight chance a senior banker happens to walk by. Senior bankers on the other hand need the SAME book printed many times a day as they can never seem to find the version they were handed minutes before. Absentmindedness is a measure of worth around here.
True to their inherent nature, every senior banker waits until the last possible second to finalize a presentation. The printing and binding tasks usually fall upon the analyst or the assistant.
10: 55 am “I need 30 copies of this book for an 11 am meeting”
The analyst / assistant now feels like they are in the game of Whack-a-mole... imagine the moles are senior bankers…for the next five minutes, they pop their head to check on the status of the books…Alas, there is no mallet or sharp object in the vicinity.
But the best of the printing situations happen in the lead up to the Lenders Meetings. Unfortunately, also true to their nature, the banker assumes everyone else runs on their schedule and has no other thought in the world but to cater to their desires…
The MDs also love to insert slip sheets into a presentation after it has been finalized and printed. Slip sheets are pages that have been changed after the books have been bound and printed. These need to be replaced in a painful fashion. Each presentation must be unbound, taken apart, have one page replaced, and then be rebound. This takes longer than it took to print and bind these books in the first place.
Any assistant or analysts nightmare.
Books should be used to decorate desks in the slight chance a senior banker happens to walk by. Senior bankers on the other hand need the SAME book printed many times a day as they can never seem to find the version they were handed minutes before. Absentmindedness is a measure of worth around here.
True to their inherent nature, every senior banker waits until the last possible second to finalize a presentation. The printing and binding tasks usually fall upon the analyst or the assistant.
10: 55 am “I need 30 copies of this book for an 11 am meeting”
The analyst / assistant now feels like they are in the game of Whack-a-mole... imagine the moles are senior bankers…for the next five minutes, they pop their head to check on the status of the books…Alas, there is no mallet or sharp object in the vicinity.
But the best of the printing situations happen in the lead up to the Lenders Meetings. Unfortunately, also true to their nature, the banker assumes everyone else runs on their schedule and has no other thought in the world but to cater to their desires…
The MDs also love to insert slip sheets into a presentation after it has been finalized and printed. Slip sheets are pages that have been changed after the books have been bound and printed. These need to be replaced in a painful fashion. Each presentation must be unbound, taken apart, have one page replaced, and then be rebound. This takes longer than it took to print and bind these books in the first place.
Any assistant or analysts nightmare.
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