Bank departments and genders

Testing many business cycles of a bank at the same time can be really fascinating. This giant mechanism consisting of dozens of people, information, orders flowing from side to side; this giant organism you feel yourself inside of.

One can compare the allocation of functions within a traditional family, as it is since the Stone Age, with the structure of a bank. The man traditionally serves (served) as as the family's "front office" by bringing home food/money from the external environment and representing the entity on the "market". The woman, to the contrary, had traditionally a "back office" function in the family, being responsible for managing and processing the resources brought in by the man, concentrating on internal issues of keeping the houshold.

Similarly, the bank's front office is the most masculine department of the bank, especially if we take its activities on the fund market. Aggressive adrenaline addict traders taking high risks for high returns, with cold coffee in the cup and an unfinished Counter Strike battle one Alt+Tab far away. The back office is the feminine opposite of it. This cosy place is usually, although not always, inhabited by calm 30-years-old-girls chatting about men and TV series and listening to oldies-radio.

A big pity that this exciting adventure is coming to its end, back to much less interesting substantive tests.