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{{a|people|}}The dirty, low-profile, undignified business of actually complying with all the fantastical confabulations that [[sales]], [[trading]] and [[Mediocre lawyer|the legal profession]] put the bank into.
{{a|people|}}The dirty, low-profile, undignified business of actually complying with all the fantastical confabulations that [[sales]], [[trading]] and [[Mediocre lawyer|the legal profession]] put the bank into.


It is astounding how little resemblance these manicured legal {{t|contract}}s bear to the actual ebbs and flows of operational systems in a bank. Since the [[legal eagle]]s never see the latter, this is of no moment to them, but they will spend ''weeks'' arguing amongst themselves to shut down the paranoid contingencies that populate the [[René Descartes|Cartesian]] theatre of a lawyer’s imagination, notwithstanding that they've never manifested themselves [[Chicken Licken|in anyone’s actual experience]]. See, for example: [[close-out netting]]; [[cross default]]; [[NAV trigger]]s.
It is astounding how little resemblance these manicured legal {{t|contract}}s bear to the actual ebbs and flows of operational systems in a bank. Since the [[legal eagle]]s never see the latter, this is of no moment to them, but they will spend ''weeks'' arguing amongst themselves to shut down the paranoid contingencies that populate the [[Cartesian theatre]] of a lawyer’s imagination, notwithstanding that they've never manifested themselves [[Chicken Licken|in anyone’s actual experience]]. See, for example: [[close-out netting]]; [[cross default]]; [[NAV trigger]]s.


Up to a certain level of seniority, [[operations]] folk see themselves as [[Subject matter expert|misshapen bell ringers]] of the financial services world<ref>Curiously, this is how [[Sales]] see them too.</ref>, doing the grubby but necessary work to ensure the congregation is on time, well dressed and properly presented for evensong. Imperceptibly, as they grow, they will discover a taste for the contorted figures of speech of the sedimentary [[middle management]] layer that sits over them generating byzantine [[powerpoint|powerpoints]], segueing from [[steerco]] to [[steerco]]. These young scallywags soon intuit that, if they wish to avoid the executive recommendations of these [[steerco]]s — that their functions be [[Outsourcing|outsourced]], [[Right-sizing|right-sized]], or delegated to a fleet of [[chatbot]]s — they need to ascend into that management layer so they can be the ones ''making'' these recommendations, and overseeing their inevitable remediation, rather than being systematically dismembered by them.
Up to a certain level of seniority, [[operations]] folk see themselves as [[Subject matter expert|misshapen bell ringers]] of the financial services world<ref>Curiously, this is how [[Sales]] see them too.</ref>, doing the grubby but necessary work to ensure the congregation is on time, well dressed and properly presented for evensong. Imperceptibly, as they grow, they will discover a taste for the contorted figures of speech of the sedimentary [[middle management]] layer that sits over them generating byzantine [[powerpoint|powerpoints]], segueing from [[steerco]] to [[steerco]]. These young scallywags soon intuit that, if they wish to avoid the executive recommendations of these [[steerco]]s — that their functions be [[Outsourcing|outsourced]], [[Right-sizing|right-sized]], or delegated to a fleet of [[chatbot]]s — they need to ascend into that management layer so they can be the ones ''making'' these recommendations, and overseeing their inevitable remediation, rather than being systematically dismembered by them.