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=== [[Constructive]] get your coat === | === [[Constructive]] get your coat === | ||
There is also the ''constructive'' get your coat: directions to the coat check that ought to be, but inexplicably have not been, issued. These go to the “seasoned professional” who, through inadvertence, discloses a profound ignorance as to matters with which he really ought to be intimate. The [[legal eagle]] who seeks an [[indemnity for breach of contract]]. The [[credit officer]] who conveys the absurd, but apparently popular, belief that banks keep your money in a little jar with your name on it. | There is also the ''constructive'' get your coat: directions to the coat check that ought to be, but inexplicably have not been, issued. These go to the “seasoned professional” who, through inadvertence, discloses a profound ignorance as to matters with which he really ought to be intimate. The [[legal eagle]] who seeks an [[indemnity for breach of contract]]. The [[credit officer]] who conveys the absurd, but apparently popular, belief that banks keep your money in a little jar with your name on it, or the banking conglomerate [[chief executive officer|chief executive]] who thinks it is okay to discuss the banking affairs of a politician she doesn’t like with the BBC over a glass of wine at a charity dinner.<ref>Stop press: we can report NatWest CEO’s coat has now been collected and said CEO is spending more time with her family and her damehood for public service.</ref> | ||
There may be an alternative, better, universe out there where these people are properly self-actualising by wiping tables at Starbucks, but the unhappy fact of our own one is that far too many forge handsome careers in the city without ever being found out. | There may be an alternative, better, universe out there where these people are properly self-actualising by wiping tables at Starbucks, but the unhappy fact of our own one is that far too many forge handsome careers in the city without ever being found out. |