Obakesan wrote:
>>>>> Financial institutions don't hire whiners; they hire assholes and
>>>>> dickheads who would kill their own mothers to get ahead.
> 
> please, that's so un-elite. They hire specialists, some of whom have 
> characteristics described by a fellow named Cleckley

If you're speaking of the psychologist and not the real estate king, 
yes.  But, I was mostly thinking of a contemporary of his, Fred Schwed.

>>>> So you work in finance eh :-)
>>> Does it show?  I gotta work on my patois.
>> Do they still make that with goose liver?
> 
> finest force fed from France

I used the plural to indicate there was more than one type (badda bing). 
  Finance people first use the livers from their mothers, which they've 
killed.  They don't switch to geese until later, served with an impudent 
Napa Valley red from a winery in which they've recently bought a 
majority share in and then fired the wine master who made the label 
famous, replacing him with Senor Raul de Managua, the top picker from 
last year's crop.  It will be five years before people discover this 
year's wine tastes like rabbit droppings so there will be plenty of time 
to inflate the asset value and flog it to another consortium at a profit.

> just had to get that aliteration in there ;-)
> 
> anyway, what *wrong* with working for an organisation of go-getters who 
> know what they want are not afraid to do what needs to be done to get it?

Nothing is wrong with that as long as they understand the word "ethics" 
which reduces the total number of possible organizations to the US 
Marines or HRH'es Parachute Regiments.  Real finance people have no 
ethics as exemplified by what they do when they are elected to public 
office.

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CL