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Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« on: January 11, 2015, 03:53:52 PM »
SocGen Global Strategy annual presentation. Albert Edwards, Andrew Lapthorne and guest speaker Mark Faber. Mark describing why he moved to Thailand is pretty funny.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #1 on: January 11, 2015, 11:56:27 PM »
Sounds riveting ::)

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #2 on: January 12, 2015, 01:04:49 AM »
sounds about as exciting as a colonoscopy

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #3 on: January 12, 2015, 03:35:47 AM »
Albert is a renowned crazy genius

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #4 on: January 12, 2015, 03:41:48 AM »
SocGen Global Strategy annual presentation.

I stopped reading here.
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #5 on: January 12, 2015, 10:28:15 AM »
Not reading may be holding you back skorp

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #6 on: January 12, 2015, 01:33:28 PM »
Not reading may be holding you back skorp

How can you admire men who don't even lift....you sicken me.
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #7 on: January 13, 2015, 04:44:50 AM »
Marc faber is a german 60 year old living in Thailand with a ponytail... true get bigger right there.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #8 on: January 13, 2015, 05:57:55 AM »
Denarii

Do you ever sit in a boardroom sometimes and everyone is sucking up to the big boss...and find yourself drifting, and thinking...."he doesn't even lift" as an air of superiority fills your lungs.

I later find out how much bonus he got and eat humble pie.
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #9 on: January 13, 2015, 06:30:50 AM »
Denarii

Do you ever sit in a boardroom sometimes and everyone is sucking up to the big boss...and find yourself drifting, and thinking...."he doesn't even lift" as an air of superiority fills your lungs.

I later find out how much bonus he got and eat humble pie.

I don't suck up anyone. The other day I told my boss that he looked like philip seymore Hoffman, before he died.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #10 on: January 13, 2015, 11:44:37 AM »
I don't suck up anyone. The other day I told my boss that he looked like philip seymore Hoffman, before he died.

bet you suck up to the staff at your local gregs "big" guy
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #11 on: January 13, 2015, 01:24:55 PM »
didnt make it in the end, had to go on some stupid internal call that took 2 hours and i spoke for less than 5 mins on.  ill see if they have a slide deck and throw it up here or on scribed if anyone interested.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #12 on: January 14, 2015, 12:14:50 AM »
Don't leave us hanging bro...

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #13 on: January 14, 2015, 12:42:11 AM »
didnt make it in the end, had to go on some stupid internal call that took 2 hours and i spoke for less than 5 mins on.  ill see if they have a slide deck and throw it up here or on scribed if anyone interested.

Sounds like you work for one of the big players, just a huge wave of projects and things to do with no sense of direction most of the time.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #14 on: January 14, 2015, 01:27:59 AM »
Sounds like you work for pound stretchers.



yep
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #15 on: January 14, 2015, 07:30:10 AM »
Sounds like you work for one of the big players, just a huge wave of projects and things to do with no sense of direction most of the time.



Sometimes I wonder whether this place is more disorganised than Citigroup.  Then I remember our group has been kicked into the long grass by the mgmt dream team and it's time to leave.

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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #16 on: January 14, 2015, 07:52:11 AM »
Sometimes I wonder whether this place is more disorganised than Citigroup.  Then I remember our group has been kicked into the long grass by the mgmt dream team and it's time to leave.

I think they're all as bad as each other, I don't have first hand experience with Citi, but Lloyds and Barcalys Wealth yes.

I contracted for both, I was hot desking...took three weeks to get set up on systems and IT were not reachable.

The other was epically bad, they took on 10 of us at the back of an FSA (at the time) ARROW visit, then realised they didn't have space for us, so they shipped us to a recovery site....which had no PC's, we were forgotten about for two months in there. I sat on a desk in a warehouse like office with no PC reading e-books all day and invoicing them a 5 figure sum every four weeks....sounds nice? by week two it was the most tedious thing ever...waking up in the morning and getting ready to go and sit on a chair til 5pm was brain numbing.
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Re: Tuesday is one of the highlights of my working year
« Reply #17 on: January 14, 2015, 09:31:00 AM »
Well I have to write the same report on various hedge funds. It's like groundhog day. For 10 years. 90% of my time.