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Where is she now?
Aug. 9th, 2016 01:14 amI stumbled across a mention of Lucy Gao, probably the most famous City intern whose 21st birthday invitation email did the rounds at investment banks and business schools all around the world.
She is now a VP at EFG Bank in Singapore, which is a relatively modest speed of career progression. I expected more from the author of the most famous e-mail ever sent out by a City intern.
That's what The Guardian wrote at the time:
It was an invitation in the style of the most pernickety celebrity. Not only were the select few who were emailed about the birthday party at the Ritz Hotel told what to wear and what to say, they were also given a 15-minute slot in which they must arrive.
Bridling at the fact that the instructions were not for an Elton John charity ball or dinner at Beckingham Palace, but an invitation to the 21st birthday of a financial services trainee, one of the 39 guests forwarded Lucy Gao's message.
Her helpful advice "that the more upper-class you dress, the less likely you shall be denied entry", and her insistence that all queries should be directed to her personal assistant "between 8.30pm to 10pm", has now become the latest excruciating personal email to be dispatched around the world. Ms Gao, an engineering graduate of Oxford University who works at Citigroup in Canary Wharf, east London, wrote that colleagues should announce to hotel staff "I am here for Lucy's birthday party at the Rivoli Bar" on arriving at the Ritz in central London.
Marvelling at Ms Gao's delusions of grandeur, one unkind colleague praised her email as the "best yet", while another wrote in the forwarded email: "As previously discussed ... maybe we need to revisit the intern selection criteria. I think the emphasis on control may be too high!"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/26/news.uknews
( And here is that famous email )
She is now a VP at EFG Bank in Singapore, which is a relatively modest speed of career progression. I expected more from the author of the most famous e-mail ever sent out by a City intern.
That's what The Guardian wrote at the time:
It was an invitation in the style of the most pernickety celebrity. Not only were the select few who were emailed about the birthday party at the Ritz Hotel told what to wear and what to say, they were also given a 15-minute slot in which they must arrive.
Bridling at the fact that the instructions were not for an Elton John charity ball or dinner at Beckingham Palace, but an invitation to the 21st birthday of a financial services trainee, one of the 39 guests forwarded Lucy Gao's message.
Her helpful advice "that the more upper-class you dress, the less likely you shall be denied entry", and her insistence that all queries should be directed to her personal assistant "between 8.30pm to 10pm", has now become the latest excruciating personal email to be dispatched around the world. Ms Gao, an engineering graduate of Oxford University who works at Citigroup in Canary Wharf, east London, wrote that colleagues should announce to hotel staff "I am here for Lucy's birthday party at the Rivoli Bar" on arriving at the Ritz in central London.
Marvelling at Ms Gao's delusions of grandeur, one unkind colleague praised her email as the "best yet", while another wrote in the forwarded email: "As previously discussed ... maybe we need to revisit the intern selection criteria. I think the emphasis on control may be too high!"
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2006/aug/26/news.uknews
( And here is that famous email )
