10. Getting comments on v10 from your MD when you are already on v23.
9. Not reading your associates mind about those books that needed to be printed 3 hours ago.
8. No Starbucks within a five meter radius.
7. Having a mid-level banker ask you how your weekend is looking on a Friday afternoon (shortly before dropping two days of work on you).
6. Being staffed with floater MD...Every time.
5. The Fire Drill (1)
4. Being staffed on a team with a senior banker who thinks he knows finance.
3. Excel crashing.
2. Someone getting word that you might be interviewing.
1. Sharing an elevator with the Vice chairman at 9 am on a Friday morning as you roll in late after a boozy Thursday night.
(1) Fire drill: - The phrase that ensures that sleep will evade you in the next 24 hours. Refers to any task that must be completed IMMEDIATELY. Unfortunately, just like the fate of ASAP, this is used all too often. Hence, it applies to every task or pitch that the analyst is given. The Analyst is in a perpetual state of danger of burning to death.
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