Office Barricade Reveal
What a photo. In another timeline this would have been a great meme template. The motive for this will be very telling. Was the shooter someone with a bone to pick with Blackstone/Capitalism? A personal beef? Former employee? This photo will have a whole new meaning once we know. pic.twitter.com/noDzLhWNOm
— Autism Capital 🧩 (@AutismCapital) July 29, 2025
When we hear there's an active shooter in our building, what would we do?
Barricade the door feels high on that list.
Which is what's alleged these 33rd floor occupants did when tragic loss of life struck a Manhattan Park Avenue skyscraper this week.
These gentlemen are claimed to staff what they themselves call "the world's largest alternative investment firm". Owning all manner of things on behalf of wealthy clients. It is an all-powerful beast. Distinguished from another major firm, BlackRock, who mainly manage, rather than own, such wealth.
I read that Blackstone has roughly the same 'assets under management' as the size of the Dutch economy, the world's 18th largest. Near $1.2trillion.
Wags were quick to gag.
Note even when 'under fire' the wherewithal to protect their clients data by shutting monitor screens down.
That's a crazy amount of couches for a single office.
Such a sturdy job, they surely followed their assault response playbook well.
Yet - 'New York gunman targeted NFL office ‘in revenge plot for brain injury’, note reveals' notwithstanding - I was drawn to a perhaps more mundane element.
With such money swirling around, how on earth does decor like this exist?
The room literally looks like 2005.
A naff version of it, to boot.
Yes, the exact type of work in this office is unknown.
But still.
How so bland?
There's zero inspiration in this room.
Dire desktops, bare wall dividers, blank walls too.
Even those sofas look perfunctory. Including legless dupes of your classic Barcelona style.
Maybe the mesh-backed chairs could be half-decent, but then they may also be non-descript.
Do those within finance really still wear such uniform? Plain white or blue shirts, dark trousers and socks, black shoes?
I get the arguments around not wantonly splashing other people's cash, and the seriousness of the endeavour. Yet establishing and keeping an optimal culture is not needless expenditure. And here, it seems to betray the lack of thought given to ideal working environments. Inattention that you'd hope does not permeate husbandry of funds. Yet that culture goes culture-ing ought be no surprise. So it does raise questions.
In short, if your sales office looks like this, you've got problems. Fix it.
Yea pic.twitter.com/4t7OMEKm6M
— LongVol (@_LongVol) July 29, 2025