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Awards of any kind are a dignity-shredding affair, especially when your auditors can’t count envelopes, but just what is going through the mind of an investment banker, or recruitment consultant, or compliance professional who thinks it is wise to hold, participate in, win, or humblebrag on [[LinkedIn]] about, an “industry award” is hard to fathom.  
Awards of any kind are a dignity-shredding affair, even when your auditors can count envelopes, but just what is going through the mind of an investment banker, recruitment consultant, [[Mediocre lawyer|lawyer]] or compliance professional who thinks it is wise to hold, participate in, win, humblebrag on [[LinkedIn]] about, or congratulate anyone else for an “industry award” is hard to fathom.  


These awards used to be doled out only at gala events convened by those tedious free industry magazines as a means of rewarding patient and persistent advertisers (does anyone actually read [[Risk Magazine]]<ref>Careful: http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine is the derivatives risk magazine. https://www.risk-mag.com is a different kind of magazine altogether, although its reader appeal is a bit more obvious.</ref>? Why? When?)  
These awards used to be doled out only at gala events convened by those tedious free industry magazines as a means of rewarding patient and persistent advertisers (does anyone actually read [[Risk Magazine]]<ref>Careful: http://www.risk.net/risk-magazine is the derivatives risk magazine. https://www.risk-mag.com is a different kind of magazine altogether, although its reader appeal is a bit more obvious.</ref>? Why? When?)