经济学人中一段说高盛集团的话没看懂，

弹钢琴 · 发表于 2023-2-3 21:35:56

Goldman sachs, the world’s most famous investment bank, is used to criticism. Insiders complain about its callousness to employees, harsh hours and fierce internal competition. Outsiders are less polite. Matt Taibbi, an American polemicist, famously called it “a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money”.

Jamie Fiore Higgins, a former Goldman banker, is the latest to participate in the venerable American tradition of Goldman-bashing. In her memoir, “Bully Market: My Story of Money and Misogyny at Goldman Sachs”, Ms Higgins writes of her “perceptions and experiences as a high-ranking woman in finance”. Ms Higgins quit the company in 2016 when her “Spreadsheet of Freedom”, updated throughout her 17-year career, indicated she had the money to walk away.

The book recounts some despicable behaviour. One of Ms Higgins’s colleagues threatened to rip her face off, after she removed him from an account for an affair with the client; two men made mooing noises as she went to express milk for her baby. The only partial consolation is that Ms Higgins thinks sexism and abuse are less rampant since the #MeToo movement.

划线的两部分没看懂，是什么意思呢？

instrumental · 发表于 2023-2-4 19:04:30

"A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel into anything that smells like money" 这个比喻是对高盛银行（Goldman Sachs）的批评，意思是高盛银行就像一条吸血章鱼，缠绕在人类的面前，不断地将其blood funnel插入任何闻起来像钱的东西。

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"after she removed him from an account for an affair with the client" 这句话指的是，Jamie Fiore Higgins（一位前高盛银行员）在她的书中讲述的一件事。她的同事因与客户有染而被她从一个账户上移除，随后同事威胁要把她的脸撕掉。

弹钢琴 · 发表于 2023-2-4 21:09:08

instrumental 发表于 2023-2-4 19:04
"A great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity, relentlessly jamming its blood funnel in ...

“账户”指的是什么啊？她为什么可以把同事从”账户“上移除？

instrumental · 发表于 2023-2-4 22:00:02

弹钢琴发表于 2023-2-4 21:09
“账户”指的是什么啊？她为什么可以把同事从”账户“上移除？

金融行业，“账户” 通常是指客户或公司的金融账户，可以用来存放钱，购买证券等。因此，从这个意义上讲，银行家可以从 “账户” 上移除一名同事，以确保遵守公司政策和法律规定。

dliaas · 发表于 2023-2-5 03:47:26

弹钢琴发表于 2023-2-4 21:09
“账户”指的是什么啊？她为什么可以把同事从”账户“上移除？

每个公司员工都有公司的办公用账户，如[email protected]，根据权限的不同可以处理不同的事务，这里的“账户”可能是指带有某种权限的账户。因为是“an account"，所以不是全部的账户，该同事还有其他的账户可以使用。

葡萄柚 · 发表于 2023-2-8 13:00:27

a great vampire squid wrapped around the face of humanity
蒙着人脸的吸血乌贼

葡萄柚 · 发表于 2023-2-8 13:21:28

“she removed him from an account”
我猜测可能是某种权限。比如说，公司员工的工资是保密的，但有一定级别或从事相关工作的人有权利查看，这些人的账号（登录系统使用的账号）就被赋予了查看职工工资数据库的权限。如果这项权限从你的账号上取消了，你就再也看不到职工工资了。

还有一种情况是我 google 到的。网上有人问：
I have a joint checking account with my spouse. I would like to remove my spouse from the account. Can I do that?

https://www.consumerfinance.gov/ ... -i-do-that-en-1097/

joint account 大概就是“联名账号”吧。夫妻两人可以在银行开一个联名账号，两人都可以在这个账号中存钱取钱转账。
这个人问：他跟他的配偶有一个联名账号，他能不能把配偶从这个联名账号中去除。

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