Once upon a time, not all that long ago, bonuses were rare things, handed out to those exceptional few who exceeded expectations on a grand scale. Today people expect them for simply doing the job. Wrong. That’s a salary.
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I started out as a finance journalist. I was 21 and fresh from university. Almost every day, I came into contact with bankers in their larval stage. No older than me, they had emerged from their chinos-and-rowing-stash cocoons into the uniform of braces and…
