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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. | 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 representatives of their patient and persistent advertisers, who didn't seem to be getting anything else out of that commercial transaction (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?). | ||
At least then, sheepishly returning to your desk with an embarrassing plastic figurine was the price of a free night out on the tiles with your buddies — but in recent times those comparatively austere publications and their passingly fancy dinners have been joined by all kinds of obscure “industry networking platforms” and hitherto unheard-of “industry trade associations” in declaring arbitrary, meaningless and often frankly outrageous awards to individuals whom you would think the simple pleasure of excelling at their professional calling, or failing that, being richly paid for it, ought to be reward enough. No gala dinners for these: just a ropey post on the internet. | At least then, sheepishly returning to your desk with an embarrassing plastic figurine was the price of a free night out on the tiles with your buddies — but in recent times those comparatively austere publications and their passingly fancy dinners have been joined by all kinds of obscure “industry networking platforms” and hitherto unheard-of “industry trade associations” in declaring arbitrary, meaningless and often frankly outrageous awards to individuals whom you would think the simple pleasure of excelling at their professional calling, or failing that, being richly paid for it, ought to be reward enough. No gala dinners for these: just a ropey post on the internet. | ||