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Young Wall Street analysts, who are mostly not permitted to use social media at work, are finding was to get around the corporate firewalls.

To watch soccer highlights, for example, one analyst said he translated the names of the teams through and looked for them on Rutube, YouTube’s Russian equivalent.

“It’s draconian,” the analyst said of his company’s Web site blocks. “It’s a job where you spend a lot of time waiting to get assignments back from superiors, and you have to find ways to kill the time.”

“YouTube is the biggest obstacle,” agreed an analyst at who also spoke anonymously. He says that, instead, he searches , but it is not nearly as satisfying.