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Anyway, a [[depth charge]]: That critical deal approval call has turned into a shit-show. The presenter — a junior on the deal team, hoping unrealistically for promotion — is unprepared, transparently does not understand {{sex|his}} deal and, to boot<ref>''Das Boot'', needless to say.</ref>, has committed that mortal error of not warming up the controller group who are due to hear {{sex|his}} application. Further, the cantankerous guy from Treasury legal got out the wrong side of bed this morning and is of a mood to make an example out of young sir in front of the assembled. | Anyway, a [[depth charge]]: That critical deal approval call has turned into a shit-show. The presenter — a junior on the deal team, hoping unrealistically for promotion — is unprepared, transparently does not understand {{sex|his}} deal and, to boot<ref>''Das Boot'', needless to say.</ref>, has committed that mortal error of not warming up the controller group who are due to hear {{sex|his}} application. Further, the cantankerous guy from Treasury legal got out the wrong side of bed this morning and is of a mood to make an example out of young sir in front of the assembled. | ||
The young fellow proceeds and, in the face of the most innocuous question from [[compliance]] limply descends into a chaos of stuttering and patent fabrication, punctuated by awkward pauses, during which a distant voice is picked up an a someone’s microphone — whose, we cannot say<ref>This is getting harder to mask in the age of [[Skype problems|Skype]], sadly</ref>. The voice —is quiet, but clear, and sounding as though it has come from a mouth turned from the handset in a tone of surreptition, says | The young fellow proceeds and, in the face of the most innocuous question from [[compliance]] limply descends into a chaos of stuttering and patent fabrication, punctuated by awkward pauses, during which a distant voice is picked up an a someone’s microphone — whose, we cannot say<ref>This is getting harder to mask in the age of [[Skype problems|Skype]], sadly</ref>. The voice —is quiet, but clear, and sounding as though it has come from a mouth turned from the handset in a tone of surreptition, says: <br> | ||
“Man this deal is a piece of shit.” | |||
Sir Jerrold Baxter-Morley, MD of the deal team, wakes up | Sir Jerrold Baxter-Morley, [[Managing director|MD]] of the deal team, wakes up and explodes in a beetroot-faced, eye-bulging squawk of indignance: this is his deal, for his old Eton school-chum Buffer Montague, now a restaurateur and sometime [[introducing broker]] in the Middle East. | ||
“Who said that? WHO SAID THAT!?” | “Who said that? WHO SAID THAT!?” | ||
But there is no reply, just another awkward pause. But, by means of something that may have been serendipitous background | But there is no reply, just another awkward pause. But, by means of something that may have been serendipitous background dealing-floor banter, the damage is done. The remark has articulated only what every controller was quietly thinking, and it fortifies them in their opposition. | ||
{{seealso}} | {{seealso}} |