Tech
The physical and mental limit of your working ability
Bandwidth
Coordinating at least two interns
Herding cats
Relatively simple problems that can be addressed without much effort
Low-hanging fruit
Estimate or approximation (give or take a few hundred million dollars)
Ballpark
It is 5:27 PM, you are in the office, your plane boards at 6:05 PM, Uber says it will take you 26 minutes to get to the airport, and an associate is asking you if you can take this call about the borders on this table
Hard stop
Telling somebody about something
Knowledge transfer
How PMC tortures the new hires
Fishbowl
Allowing some time to consider an idea
Marinate
The number of ongoing tasks you are responsible for
Balls in the air
An overly-ambitious or all-encompassing task
Boil the ocean
To explore a topic in greater detail
Double-click
Popping your head out of your office when something interesting happens in the hallway
Prairie dog
Someone who never moves from in front of their computer
Mouse potato
You receive a message at 9:01 in the morning from a VP asking you to do this with them regarding an analysis.
You feel an uneasy sense of foreboding, as there is no other context provided in the message, but you respond "Sure thing" with three exclamation points at 9:03.
Touch base
A dramatic way of saying "edit" or "rewrite"
Wordsmith
Being so good at using the Bloomberg terminal that it makes up for a complete lack of experience in finance
Bloombergsmanship
Something that's impossible
Putting socks on an octopus
Menial work e.g. a footnote audit
Salt mine
A frantic effort without a clearly defined goal
Race without a finish line
A useful phrase that allows you to avoid committing to a yes/no answer when you have no idea if you are correct
My understanding
One of our analysts spent six hours manually matching these names together
Leveraging bleeding-edge AI
Being slow
Pig in a python
The last place you should even think about putting your Relish order
Refrigerator
Sharing work product that isn't ready just to meet a deadline
Ready fire aim
I forgot to write this down
Request to reverbalize the ask