Happy Monday WSO!
Upcoming webinars:
-Webinar: Hedge Fund Case: Baxter - US activist strategy -- 4pm ET, 7/15/16
Upcoming webinar rewinds on the WSO Frontpage (replays of old webinars you may have missed, free for 24 hours):
What & What NOT to Say to Headhunters, 7/15/2016
Hedge Fund Case: Event Driven Credit Investing, 7/16/2016
Post of the Week:
Keeping Up with the Zuckerbergs (Learning About/Staying Up-to-Date on the Tech Industry) by @7xEBITDA". 5 SB's.
Discussion Topics of the Week:
Durant to the Warriors by @AndyLouis". 66 comments.
Who's your favorite philosopher? by @David Aames". 62 comments.
The Alton Sterling clash by @iggs99988". 35 comments.
Comment of the Week:
This comment by @RobberBaron123" in the post "Problem-solving skills as an analyst?".
Well, our firm's controller and I are trying to crack down on who keeps leaving a huge shit in the most-left stall of the bathroom. This is maybe in its 5th month of research. We have a few candidates on who it could be.We've done our research to the point that we can determine when the frequency of said shits will increase but still can't pinpoint who it could be, but we have a few good ideas. I forgot the full acronym, but we had an acronym that we used to measure key pieces of the puzzle. Some of the gauges (in no particular order) were S, C, F, and D: Stress levels in the office, Consistency of the poop, Frequency of bathroom visits, and Diet patterns among suspects - when matched with candidates, it narrows down the suspect pool. Sometimes you have to solve for X. We'd measure these over time in an Excel sheet and pick up on patterns. Unfortunately, the primary culprit we believe the phantom shitter to be was frequently shitting before either of us got to the office in the morning, so we couldn't observe their trek to the bathroom and couldn't clock the time spent in the bathroom (yes, we tracked that too). That would leave us with inconclusive evidence (assumed innocent until proven guilty). And every once in awhile, there would be shits during times where our top 3-4 culprits weren't around the office, which would throw off the whole research.
So, while this isn't a closed case, our research efforts have greatly improved the suspect line up. The remaining loophole is whether we have more than one shitter. At the end of the day, we could probably solve the problem by asking everyone at company meetings to flush twice, but that just seems like a huge waste of company time and resources, now doesn't it? The research will continue.
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I wanted to take the space here to thank and congratulate the new Certified Users from the past week. Welcome to the club. Some of these are new members, but all have confirmed that they work in the indicated industry at the level selected on their profile. All Certified Users have a yellow star next to their usernames when posting in the forums, so you all know which sources you can trust the most. As WSO Certified Users, they get 3 months free to the WSO Job Board ($45 Value). Without further ado:
Investment Banking
@ab216” - Industry/Coverage - 1st Year Associate
@asifj13” - Industry/Coverage - 2nd Year Analyst
Private Equity
@mrharveyspecter” - Growth Equity - 1st Year Associate
Hedge Fund
@Financeguy99” - Other - 3rd+ Year Analyst
@DeepFisher” - Other - 2nd Year Analyst
@d7aug” - Macro - 1st Year Analyst
Prop Trading
@bryanturner” – Trader
Consulting
@frattisimus101” - 1st Year Associate
@Perfecthindsight” - 2nd Year Analyst
Asset Management
@Mengdu” - Other - Portfolio Manager
@DBW521” - Fixed Income - Investment Analyst
Equity Research
@Street Smart” - 2nd Year Associate
corporate finance
@All American Reject” – Other
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