Why people say they work in the city what do they mean?

Maybe not thick.  Buy you could try using google.

Probably holding the "GOLF SALE" sign.

It's the same as knobheads on here always claiming everyday is a winning one, fantasists

I've always thought it meant they work in finance/banking etc. Canary Wharf etc.

Means they work on a similar platform to betfair ,but they do it with other peoples money so in effect boxingthefox is wrong because those coonts never lose.

Means they work on a similar platform to betfair ,but they do it with other peoples money so in effect boxingthefox is wrong because those coonts never lose.

I've always thought it meant they work in finance/banking etc. Canary Wharf etc.

Mr Eboue, Thats exactly what they want you to believe,it's so facking pretentious on a w@nker would say it, I know a few of these wonkers who really do work "in the city" and since 2008 they have stopped using this phrase. especially to people who don't work in finance,

I thought it meant that they worked within the square mile, presumably in one of the financial institutions based there.

they try to imply that they work in a big pressure finance job that is holding the economy together when in reality they work in a mailroom or imput data onto a screen allday in a hellhole office

When people say they work in the City, they mean the business district areas in or around the Square Mile, the Square mile is basically the "City of London", which is right in the heart of central London surrounded by 32 boroughs but don't think it's an actual borough itself, basically it's the least residential part of the whole city where most buildings in most streets are companies or businesses, only towards the outskirts of the postcodes which it encompasses ,EC, WC (which is Easter Central, Western Central (London)) would you find any council estates or residential tower blocks. I would imagine though people who also work in the Docklands which is just 1 or 2 miles away also qualifies as "the city", given the business hub that that is as well.

I remember one day when I spent the whole day in or around central London and at Lunchtime, and I say without exaggeration, I walked by at least 5 or 6 women outside buildings sitting on the walls, crying. They say there's a lot of bullying of females in high pressured jobs.

Nothing like it used to be back in the 60's.

Nothing like it used to be back in the 60's

They all wore bowlers then.

Anywhere North of the river with EC as part of their postcode would be 'in the city' to me, I wouldn't have included E14 in that originally but I suppose it's accepted now to be part of it.

I used to work in the city, I'd live there if I could afford it.

thanks lads, i know i could have googled it but it all goes over my head tbh

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waterloo_%26_City_line

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_of_London

Without looking it up - I think it means they work in the financial sector - Stocks & Shares/Banking/Commodity Trading - in simple terms -  something along those lines......

One of my mates worked in the city for 3 months.

He had 600 men under him.

He was a tower crane operator.

call me a taxi - I doubt your mate described himself as someone  who 'works in the city' he most likely said he was a 'crane driver' - there is a difference.  (Hilarity at it's best ).

Worked in the Square mile for many a year back in the 70/80's when the routine was call into office to key in, say hello, go to lunch at 11 on business, spend rest of day going between watering holes and bookies, call back into office to say good night and key out, onto pub for a couple before getting the last direct train home from Cannon St...!
Often wonder if the bookies in Lime St and Eastcheap ever take any wagers these days, they certainly did then, probably just have FOBT's these days like the rest of them...!

When a lady was asked what her husband did, the standard reply was "Oh he is something in The City"!

A cant round the corner from me was at a mutual friends wedding and after he had quizzed me on what I did asked him,his response was I work for the NHS.I thought feck me that tells me a lot,are you a brain surgeon or do you clean the wards.I found out last week he is a porter.

There is a lot of that, @Biscar. When we talk about City workers earning squillions and trashing the economy, it is easy to forget that most of the people -- even in the financial sector -- are IT workers or accounts clerks and so on -- just ordinary jobs paying not a great deal more than you'd earn outside the City, and with higher expenses to match.