The *ankers in the city

What is it with these new breed of high earning, high city fliers and city go getter's...We have been told by the media that the world is in the poor financial state that it is because of the mess and dodgy dealings caused by the men in their TM Lewin shirts, Church's shoes, and crisp tailor made Saville row suits...namely the *ankers in the city or square mile. 

Businesses, small and large have suffered a terrible fate, gone out of business as banks are no longing lending or lending at silly high rates and ordinary people are left to pay to bail out these big financial institutions. Yet, the bonuses keep on rolling in and the city folk still walking around as if nothing is wrong.

And I guess why should it be; for if you go into the city bars and just listen you will hear the young, arrogant and more then often loud *anker talk of his/her large bonus, what car they have just ordered and how expensive their latest watch is.

The interesting thing is the average *anker earns just as much a an average IT contractor, yet you don't see the IT contractor giving it the large, so where does this attitude come from?  Is it the financial institutions themselves or the top level management who are the biggest *ankers and push this disgusting behaviour down to the junior *ankers?

As always, to make it real for me, my 30 year  lawyer cousin came around to the house to see my  daughter and in conversation; I asked, "how is dating going"?  To which she replied, she met a few Asian *ankers in a bar in London, and as much as she tried to have a civil and normal conversation with them, unfortunately their self absorbed *anker traits took precedent and sure enough they started going on about their designer togs and how much one of them was going to earn this year. Looking disappointed, my cousin carried onto say "what is the world coming to, I didn't mind that they were doing well, but they just kept on going on about it".

Why don't these city folk look at themselves and be sensitive to the world they have damaged and mess created, the businesses they have single handily closed and families left hungry and broken.  I, like many others have no time for these folk, they have lost all sense of reality and need to keep things real. "Earn the money city folks", we don't have an issue with that, "wear the clothes and drive the cars", we don't care!  Just keep it in perspective, be sensitive to the people around you and to those you speak to and be humble because you are people who determine the financial world we normal people live in and it is your actions that will mean the difference between someone surviving or not.