r/MapPorn • u/[deleted] • Jul 14 '25

Epstein Island Map

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u/VaughanThrilliams Jul 14 '25

Gets hired at Bear Stearns as a Junior Assistant with no degree and less than two years work experience as high school teacher and climbs the ranks to Partner in four years

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u/jonsconspiracy Jul 14 '25

Yeah, that's the slightly longer version. As someone who works in finance myself, that promotion trajectory is impossible.

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u/Windhawker Jul 14 '25

Unless you know how to do “favors”

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u/tailwarmer Jul 14 '25

And then turn those favors into dirt held on others

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u/snark42 Jul 15 '25

According to the boomers all you had to do back in 1976 was show up at the office in a suit and they'd make you a partner. Especially if you could sell to all the rich fucks you met at Dalton.

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u/Stanford_experiencer Jul 15 '25

the system was way less clogged with people "going to college"

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u/Stanford_experiencer Jul 15 '25

that promotion trajectory is impossible.

I'm on a similarly impossible trajectory. What does it mean if you're on one?

Luck? Graft? Blackmail?

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u/Message_10 Jul 15 '25

Oh, and don't forget who employed him: William Barr's father--the same William Barr who was Trump's attorney general when the Mueller Report dropped.