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{{a| | {{a|work|{{image|Coat|jpg|“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 ''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. | }}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. | ||
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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 [[ | 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 [[CFO]] who says, {{viniarquote}}. The [[credit officer]] who conveys the belief that banks keep your money in a little jar with your name on it. The [[CEO]] who thinks it is okay to discuss the banking affairs of a customer 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. | ||
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*[[Contract analysis]] | *[[Contract analysis]] | ||
*[[Omega]] | *[[Omega]] | ||
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*[[Silver bullet]] | *[[Silver bullet]] | ||
*[[Donut]] | *[[Donut]] | ||
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