Victory is impossible!

So it was 3:30am, I had to be at the airport by 6:30am and my model was #Reffing out as usual. My associate starts jumping up and down like a lunatic behind me because we haven't even started printing the 35 pitch books...even though he was the one that messed up the model in the first place by asking me to change the debt assumptions. Are you kidding me!?, you think my model is that flexible? Less than a year ago, I thought all you could use Excel for was for data entry. either way, we ended up getting the books done with some creative modeling (read: paste values) but I know those last few hours of hell for my associate will hit my bonus. sometimes you just can't win.

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damn dawg that sounds super rough ...rough like a dawg goes rough rough

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"madamx1993" So it was 3:30am, I had to be at the airport by 6:30am and my model was #Reffing out as usual. My associate starts jumping up and down like a lunatic behind me because we haven't even started printing the 35 pitch books...even though he was the one that messed up the model in the first place by asking me to change the debt assumptions. Are you kidding me!?, you think my model is that flexible? Less than a year ago, I thought all you could use Excel for was for data entry. either way, we ended up getting the books done with some creative modeling (read: paste values) but I know those last few hours of hell for my associate will hit my bonus. sometimes you just can't win.

OMMMMGGGG that was crazzzzyyyyy!!! You were up at 3:30am ... that's like Black Rob, thats LIKE WHOA.

And a flight after that!! What a crazy schedule! You're like ... a domestic traveler!! Kind of like Jim Bond, 006. A notch under James, that's for sure!

You should definitely get a meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelion dollar bonus for that night.

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"madamx1993" So it was 3:30am, I had to be at the airport by 6:30am and my model was #Reffing out as usual. My associate starts jumping up and down like a lunatic behind me because we haven't even started printing the 35 pitch books...even though he was the one that messed up the model in the first place by asking me to change the debt assumptions. Are you kidding me!?, you think my model is that flexible? Less than a year ago, I thought all you could use Excel for was for data entry. either way, we ended up getting the books done with some creative modeling (read: paste values) but I know those last few hours of hell for my associate will hit my bonus. sometimes you just can't win.

OMMMMGGGG that was crazzzzyyyyy!!! You were up at 3:30am ... that's like Black Rob, thats LIKE WHOA.

And a flight after that!! What a crazy schedule! You're like ... a domestic traveler!! Kind of like Jim Bond, 006. A notch under James, that's for sure!

You should definitely get a meeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeelion dollar bonus for that night.

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