If you are an associate at an investment bank in London and are annoyed with your US colleagues who make you work all night and then claim that your work is their own, or with your manager for being passive-aggressive, it’s probably not advisable to create a Tiktok channel about it. Particularly if the TikTok channel features you, yourself, on camera.
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One female associate at RBC in London did precisely this, creating an array of videos about her long days, lack of sleep and American colleagues. Neither she nor the bank are commenting, but sources say the channel was noticed by HR, which has begun investigating. This morning it was made private.
Prior to being made private, some of the videos had attracted hundreds of thousands and even millions of views. Screenshots of some of the most popular videos are below.
The associate behind the channel explains in the videos that she has to work harder in August because the senior bankers are away. She also says that when she leaves work at 4.30am or later, she often has the same Uber drive who is worried about her health.
Commenting on her videos, one observer suggested that banking jobs seem like “modern slavery”. The associate said she likes being an investment banker because she’s a workaholic, has achieved her financial goals, doesn’t know what else to do, and is too lazy to look for something different.
She also said she enjoyed running her viral TikTok channel. Unfortunately, it seems she has had to choose one or the other.
It’s not the first time that junior bankers have posted viral videos about their lifestyles on social media. In 2021, Maninder Sachdeva, an associate at JPMorgan posted on his YouTube channel about his strange 16-hour days working from home. Those videos are still live, but Mani left JPMorgan in 2023 and now says he’s a marketing consultant and manager of influencers instead.
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