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nowherebeen | 3 years ago

People outside the finance industry really buy it too. I think it's because in most companies, VPs are above director. Only in finance, is it below.

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Hermitian909|3 years ago

> I think it's because in most companies, VPs are above director.

Every now and again someone whose spent a career exclusively in finance gets bitten by this when transitioning into the business world. A friend once told me a story about a deal with Amazon nearly getting tanked when I coworker chewed out an Amazon VP, saying they wanted to "talk to someone who could make decisions". Took a lot of massaging to salvage that deal.

watwut|3 years ago

Enjoyable to imagine this. The ex finance people I work with are quite toxic towards those lower on hierarchy. Cool to hear about someone being bitten by it for once.

throwanem|3 years ago

That must've been a fun wall to be a fly on.