/biz/ - Business & Finance

38 years old German boomer here: I can confirm and I repeat I can positively confirm that this>>11902614, >>11902576 and this >>11902721 describes in the most accurate fashion how things really are in corporate banking in Germany. It is pure hell: Brain degrading stupidity everywhere and basically everything that happens painfully reminds one of how useless these jobs are.

I was working in one of the 10 biggest banks in Germany btw.

If you had got them walmart giftcards they'd at least be able to buy toilet paper and chips with it. Now they'll need to jump through a dozen hoops, wait 2 weeks and pay $40 fee to get what will be ~$12.74 in cash back into their hands, the nano will be thrown in a drawer with 20 other freebie flash drives and your family will always remember what a shitty gift they got from you in exchange for the nice sweater or video game they gave you.