It’s hard to imagine the suffering this remarkably unfortunate woman must go through each day.
“These days, of course, most people working corporate jobs have smart phones. But while it would seem a personal smart phone would be a person needed to set him/herself free, the fact is the devices can both alleviate your sense of isolation and exacerbate it. A Goldman Sachs analyst said she has become troublingly dependent on her smart phone, which she uses for email, G-chat, Twitter and Facebook.
‘It’s getting bad,’ the 27-year-old said. ‘I sit at my desk on my iPhone instead of with my hands on my keyboard. It’s bad, but it’s my only portal to the outside world.’”
Perhaps the anonymous 27-year-old Goldman Sachs slave should look to Rahul Kamath, who works on the trading floor for the Japanese bank Nomura and doesn’t have time for such dilly-dallying in his work day, for guidance. “It is a sacrifice,” he said, “but here’s the thing: I’m getting paid to be there.”
