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[[File:Coat.jpg|450px|thumb|center|“Get your coat on, love: we’re going to the pub.”<br>“Oh! Am I invited?”<br> “No; I’m turning off the central heating.”]] | [[File:Coat.jpg|450px|thumb|center|“Get your coat on, love: we’re going to the pub.”<br>“Oh! Am I invited?”<br> “No; I’m turning off the central heating.”]] | ||
}}The time which, as it will come to all of us, will surely come to you. Portents include [[doughnut]] | }}The time which, as it will come to all of us, will surely come to you. Portents include ''personal'' signs: a [[doughnut]] in your pay packet, or your [[silver bullet]] departing unexpectedly; and ''institutional'' signs: horsemen of the [[Apocalypse]], a plague of locusts, or [[compliance]] declaring it is, finally, a suitable time for [[backtesting]] — but in that last case we’re all done for anyway. | ||
But it almost certainly won’t be heralded by [[ | But it almost certainly ''won’t'' be heralded by [[chatbot]]s, [[contract review tool]]s or [[document assembly]], however much the [[COO]] might wish it were otherwise. | ||
=== [[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 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. | |||
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