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On an [[industry call]], the [[period of joinder]] is the twenty minutes the chairperson allows at the start, right after saying “let’s give it a couple of minutes for folks to join”, in the desperate hope that ''someone'' will join a dreary call with the sainted subject of collating industry feedback to a half-baked regulatory proposal no-one understands, believes will ever happen, or cares about, except for one dude from [[Goldman]], who is guaranteed to drone on for 40 minutes, pursuing his own particular, tangential, agenda. | On an [[industry call]], the [[period of joinder]] is the twenty minutes the chairperson allows at the start, right after saying “let’s give it a couple of minutes for folks to join”, in the desperate hope that ''someone'' will join a dreary call with the sainted subject of collating industry feedback to a half-baked regulatory proposal no-one understands, believes will ever happen, or cares about, except for one dude from [[Goldman]], who is guaranteed to drone on for 40 minutes, pursuing his own particular, tangential, agenda. Because — you know, [[Goldman]]. | ||
Followed immediately by the [[roll call]] in which the chairperson's darkest fears — that ''no-one'' (except the dude from [[Goldman]]) will show — can be laid bare before the world. | Followed immediately by the [[roll call]] in which the chairperson's darkest fears — that ''no-one'' (except the dude from [[Goldman]]) will show — can be laid bare before the world. |