Guest rant My investment-banking brother says...

Guest rant My investment-banking brother says... Here is one of hundreds of reasons senior investment bankers make life for analysts worse than it already is: Voicemail. First of all, no one under thirty uses voicemail unless they are making a joke. If you make a call and the person does not pick up their phone, send an email. Thats why they gave you the BlackBerry, right? Picking up a voicemail is slow and there is no way to file it. Also, people must stop using inept management tactics like the red bomb. This is when a senior guy wants to tell you something, but instead of calling you and risking that youll answer the phone and therefore be able to ask a question, (like Whats the deadline?), he goes directly into the voice mail system to leave you a message. Its a red bomb because you get the red light on your phone that means you have a voice mail, and a bomb because you know only someone internally can do it, and it must be a senior guy because no one else would do it. If youre sitting at your desk and all of a sudden you have a voice mail, and you know your phone hasnt rung, youve just been nailed by a red bomb.