The first thing my MD says to me this morning

So I am an S&T intern but i thought this would be relevant to everyone so I posted it here.

So I get on my 630 am train into city of london (for all you foreigners that is not a typo, i am american and was suprised to see it written like that too, it is an area of london where a lot of banks are...) morning and am reading my bloomberg app and the news paper and see all of the horrfying financial figures from yesterday/this whole week.

So like any assistant trader would be I start getting nervous about a true financial collapse today (especially when you see the S&P dropping more yesterday than after during lehman.) My bank is 4 cents from being a penny stock (big euro bank) and we have dropped 10% in 24 hours.

And then, when I walk in the first thing I hear form my MD and the MD of the options desk (simultaneously and not planned)--

'good morning xxxx, looking at the world right now, you might have tor learn a more practical skill than trading, maybe carpentry'

wow. bearish much?

What do you boys think? Is the world going to fall apart again? Worse?

 

Also its amazingly obvious what bank you mean. It's been all over ZH because they hate Italy/the EU...

Not that it really matters. I'm always amazed that people are so secretive when they post nothing controversial.

Reality hits you hard, bro...
 
NYCbandar:
Where the fuck is London? Is that like Long Island? N00b.
I dont even get the humor in that you cunt.

I would rather be in NY too, but I am in grad school over here, so it made sense to do an internship here.

 
Weaponized Cum:
craigmcdermott:
Jesus was a carpenter and he turned out alright. Sure, his bonus wasn't as good as a KKR Associate but his hours were way better.
Yeah but he only got his job becuase of his dad.

SB for you. Both for the comment and the username.

Hi, Eric Stratton, rush chairman, damn glad to meet you.
 

much better hours and all the wine he could drink, but the whole 40 days in the desert thing must have sucked hahahaha.

Also I heard year zero nightlife in Jerusalem sucked ass, kind of like working for BAML in charlotte hahahaha.

 

Wow, when I originally made this post I never would have anticipated the direction it would take, but this is fucking awesome.

This is the best thread I have read in a long time....

Btw Weaponized Cum I prostrate myself in front of the greatness of your comment. Best I have ever read...

We are not worthy, we are not worthy..... (waynes rules anyone?)

 
dmackorth:
So I get on my 630 am train into city of london (for all you foreigners that is not a typo, i am american and was suprised to see it written like that too, it is an area of london where a lot of banks are...)

...where's the typo supposed to be?

 

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