Overheard on the Goldman Sachs Elevator
An anonymous career banker inside Goldman Sachs opened a twitter account (@GSElevator) with the intention of revealing the hilarious banter that takes place in the privacy of the GS elevators. Since then, the account has evolved to include things overheard on trading floors, bullpens, lobbies and bars. Some of the conversations involve more than one person, and the participants are distinguishable by their number (#1, #2, #3). Here are some of my favorites from the past several months…

#1: She’s only about 3 weeks of anorexia away from looking hot.
#2: Maybe 4.
#1: Hey fat fuck, I already know what your resolution is.
#1: Can we please stop calling them ‘hipsters’ and go back to calling them ‘pussies?’
#1: Groupon… Food stamps for the middle class.
#1: A guy came up to me at the gym and asked me what event I was training so hard for. Life, motherfucker.
#1: If you can only be good at one thing, be good at lying… because if you’re good at lying, you’re good at everything.
#1: Blacking out is just your brain clearing its browser history.
#1: My garbage disposal eats better than 98% of the world.
#1: Walking around the protesters outside makes me feel like how a black guy must feel in the gym shower.
#1: Age is just a number. The more important number is how hot she is out of 10.
#1: Hermes ties are like Jordans for white people.
#1: I don’t care how into the environment she says she is. No chick wants to be picked up in a Chevy Volt.
#1: You’re going to Hell in just about any religion.
#2: First class, baby…
#1: Living my life is like playing Call of Duty on Easy. I just go around and fuck shit up.
#1: Sober girls are the worst. So are really drunk ones… The sweet spot is 4 white wines and a Zanny.
#1: I heard the Euro was spotted at Disney World wearing a Make-A-Wish t-shirt.
#1: Bareback is the new 3rd base.
#1: I never give money to homeless people. I can’t reward failure in good conscience.
#1: Fuck that. When I was an analyst, I had to eat an entire ‘wasabi roll’. What we called team building, you faggots call bullying.
#1: Handshakes and tie knots. I don’t have time for someone that can’t master those basic skills.
#1: Two weeks of family time. I’m ready for a FBT to let some bad out.
#2: FBT?
#1: Fake Business Trip.
#1: When it doesn’t matter how much the drinks cost, it’s always happy hour.
#1: Money might not buy happiness, but I’ll take my fucking chances.
#1: Obama’s gone golfing 90 times in less than 3 years as president. That’s about three months of golf.
#1: Almost time for children to learn a valuable life lesson. Santa loves rich kids more.
#1: By now, protesters just look like pigeons to me.
#1: Fact. Nearly 50% of all American workers have less than $10k saved for retirement.
#2: Fuck. That wouldn’t cover a ski weekend.
#1: Anyone that puts CFA and MBA on their business card is a cunt.
#1: Don’t bitch about your apartment. If you want a gated house on a golf course, go be some dogshit CFO in Cleveland.
#1: I asked him what his life goal is, and he said “to make the obituary in The Economist.”
#2: Great answer. Hired.
#1: From my experience, most people really should have lower self-esteem.
#1: My charity work begins & ends with black tie galas. And if drunk me is the highest bidder on a signed Springsteen guitar, so be it.
#1: Let’s get one thing straight. Mark Zuckerberg is a fucking loser.
#1: Black Friday is the Special Olympics of capitalism.
#1: The only reason I have a home phone is so I can find my cell phone.
#2: Our maid does that.
#1: Getting laid off from Goldman is like being traded by the Yankees. You’ll probably still make millions, but it’s just not the same.

For more entertaining banter follow @GSElevator on twitter.
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Did anyone else find themselves wishing they could hit nice move multiple times on some of those? I mean it’s basically just a TFM wall but the pledge doesn’t suck.
fuck sigma chi. in hoc a dick into your brothers mouth.
We were too late
^
Motion to make these all TFMs on the wall.
Oh and great job Blueball Bill!
too bad the NYC GS office is jewfest
I’m sure everyone that works for Goldman Sachs in NY is super jealous of wherever you’re headed with a 2.5 from state school
This is fuckin great.
Pretty FaF
Skrillex #fratmusic
You realize before he was Skrillex, he was in an emo band.
fuck dubstep
Fuck pike
Skrillex is without a doubt frat musuc
Skrillex and pike go together like me and boys go together.
no
Skrillrex is shit.
Normally I don’t support twitter but #1′s comments are better than anything on the TFM wall in the last 3 months.
Agreed. And I approve of your name. Geaux Tigers.
^Yours is pretty epic too
Thank you.
maybe this went over your head but #1 isn’t one individual it’s just the first person in each conversation…hence you don’t see any one-liners from #2
What’d you expect from a couple of coonasses, older row?
Special Olympics of capitalism is fucking classic
I might just have to make a twitter now.
Exactly what I was thinking
^^I thought about this, but couldn’t allow myself to give in to that bullshit site
It actually is worth it. So much funny shit on there.
I did just read this one and lost it: “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, you have boobs.”
This is the best
Great mention, been following for a while. A few favorites you didn’t mention…
#1: Money might not buy happiness, but I’ll take my fucking chances.
#1: Life is my favorite drinking game.
#1: We’re going golfing this afternoon. Or as I like to call it, drinking.
Yeah. He definitely said that first one.
Goldman Sachs got bailed out by the government which means they are no better than dirty liberals that need government and taxpayer money to survive.
Goldman Sachs is the government.
^ Sadly, this…
Second. Private gains and private losses, not private gains and socialized losses. These might be hilarious, but there’s nothing fratty about Goldman Sachs.
Goldman Sachs paid the government back, plus interest. Making money for the US is a TFM. You’re just bitter because even Goldman Mid Management pockets 10 mil a year.
Do you realize how many banks received money from the government in the bailout? http://money.cnn.com/news/specials/storysupplement/bankbailout/ Some banks got less compared to other huge banks, and Goldman Sachs was one of them. Plus, as Accufrat said, most banks have been able to pay it back by this point. Wall Street. FaF.
Also, Paulson forced the banks to take the money whether they wanted to or not.
^He only forced 2 or 3 banks, not Goldman. And ole miss, shut the fuck up, you sound like someone on fucking oprah
Don’t worry about what’s going on with Goldman Sachs; they don’t hire from shitty southern colleges anyway, which removes 99% of this site’s members from consideration.
He forced more than two or three, the whole point was to disguise who really needed the money to prevent a major flight from whichever banks accepted the loans.
no, goldman took the money the government offered as basically a low interest loan and then used it to make a ton of money. taking advantage of government inefficiency and ineptitude is FAF.
^ Are all of the political donors who gave money to Obama then received millions in guaranteed loans through the stimulus TFTC as well?
No Paulson forced them all to take money. Check out Too Big to Fail by Sorkin. And when Obama talks about how impressed he is about them all paying back the loans, it’s largely immaterial. Many of the banks simply used the money as easy credit — and never intended it to be used for restructuring.
A 2009 NY Times Article by Mike McIntire points out that while “Congress approved the $700 billion rescue plan with the idea that banks would help struggling borrowers and increase lending to stimulate the economy, [Mark Fitzgibbon of Sandler O'Neill and Partners] said that banks seemed to be allocating the bailout money for four general purposes: increased lending, absorbing losses, bolstering capital and ‘opportunistic acquisitions.’”
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/18/business/18bank.html?pagewanted=all
“I never give money to homeless people. I can’t reward failure in good conscience.” About freaking time someone gets it.
This
Great post. I’ll forgive the fact you included a photo of 85 Broad instead of 200 West.
^^^^
I’m just glad someone on this site actually works on Wall Street.
#1: We should elect Radio Shack’s CEO as President. Only a miracle worker can keep a shitty battery store in business for 30 years.
My favorite!
This is what it would be like to live inside American Psycho
“#1: Don’t bitch about your apartment. If you want a gated house on a golf course, go be some dogshit CFO in Cleveland.”
classic.
Taking a $10 billion government handout. TWelfareM.
paying them back plus interest. Total Ibanking move
Paying back the 10 billion with Tarp Funds… NF
Talking the government out of several billion basically interest free – TFM.
Paying what back with TARP funds you retard? They paid back the TARP funds they received with money they made.
Makers, seriously, know what your talkin about before posting, you’re a fucking idiot
America lost a shit ton of money on TARP. What a shitty deal approved by shitty politicians.
America is going to make money on TARP you douche. I’m glad you think W and Hank Paulson are bad politicians.
I take it you believe everything you see on television.
http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-28/secret-fed-loans-undisclosed-to-congress-gave-banks-13-billion-in-income.html
A Bloomberg report reveals that the U.S. government loaned banks $7.7 trillion in secret bailout funds at no interest and then borrowed the money back at interest.
Bad politicians?? I think the facts will lead any reasonable man to believe so.
“Whenever I see a black guy with my last name, I can’t help but wonder if my family used to own his.”
-_-
I thought this too, then it was confirmed that we did. They just changed one letter in it so it wouldn’t be the exact same.
That was my personal favorite.
Goldman setting aside over $500k per employee for bonuses in the middle of the the financial crisis. TFTC
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New York City. FaF.