Financial institutions; FFS, grow a pair

[Mich the Tester]

This bollocks has been going on for years now. We're told about the 'risk of defaults', the 'risk of recession', the 'risk of credit defaults swaps not being honoured'.

Risk of defaults. Risk of share prices falling. Risk of lower bonusses. Risk? RISK? I'll tell you what f**king risk is; the ultimate risk is what a soldier in Afghanistan lives with every day; the fear of having his testicles blown to bits by a Taliban grenade. Slightly less risk is when you go down the Cresta Run at 130 kph with your chin 2 cm above the ice. The risk for financial 'professionals' is that they might spill their coffee, or in a real disaster be forced to forego a bottle of Petrus and make do with some reasonably priced Argentinian Malbec. The risk for people with real jobs doing something useful is that they end up unemployed and destitute. Please, if you work in the financial services industry, don't talk to me about risk or you 'risk' getting a fist hitting your face so hard that your head turns up inside out on the other side of the nearest wall. Just get your f**king act together and stop attracting attention to yourselves like a bunch of spoilt toddlers.

[MarillionFan]

What a

[fullyautomatix]

Erm...what is your point ?

[Mich the Tester]

What a

Yes, and if I have a pot noodle at least I have the decency to waste my own sperm and the erectile capability to do so instead of destroying everyone else's lives by taking 2 lines of cocaine and a viagra pill before pissing other people's money down the drain.

[Mich the Tester]

Erm...what is your point ?

Well, I somewhat doubt the 'professionalism' of the people who are responsible for investing everyone's money.

[AtW]

This bollocks has been going on for years now. We're told about the 'risk of defaults', the 'risk of recession', the 'risk of credit defaults swaps not being honoured'.

Risk of defaults. Risk of share prices falling. Risk of lower bonusses. Risk? RISK? I'll tell you what f**king risk is; the ultimate risk is what a soldier in Afghanistan lives with every day; the fear of having his testicles blown to bits by a Taliban grenade. Slightly less risk is when you go down the Cresta Run at 130 kph with your chin 2 cm above the ice. The risk for financial 'professionals' is that they might spill their coffee, or in a real disaster be forced to forego a bottle of Petrus and make do with some reasonably priced Argentinian Malbec. The risk for people with real jobs doing something useful is that they end up unemployed and destitute. Please, if you work in the financial services industry, don't talk to me about risk or you 'risk' getting a fist hitting your face so hard that your head turns up inside out on the other side of the nearest wall. Just get your f**king act together and stop attracting attention to yourselves like a bunch of spoilt toddlers.

WHS

[fullyautomatix]

Well, I somewhat doubt the 'professionalism' of the people who are responsible for investing everyone's money.

People responsible for investing other people's money are there just to line their own pockets. It would be naive to think they really care about others. There are hundreds of hedge funds fuelling this crash because they can make a ton of cash by shorting the shares.

[MarillionFan]

Erm...what is your point ?

I think he's been drinking.

[sasguru]

This bollocks has been going on for years now. We're told about the 'risk of defaults', the 'risk of recession', the 'risk of credit defaults swaps not being honoured'.

Risk of defaults. Risk of share prices falling. Risk of lower bonusses. Risk? RISK? I'll tell you what f**king risk is; the ultimate risk is what a soldier in Afghanistan lives with every day; the fear of having his testicles blown to bits by a Taliban grenade. Slightly less risk is when you go down the Cresta Run at 130 kph with your chin 2 cm above the ice. The risk for financial 'professionals' is that they might spill their coffee, or in a real disaster be forced to forego a bottle of Petrus and make do with some reasonably priced Argentinian Malbec. The risk for people with real jobs doing something useful is that they end up unemployed and destitute. Please, if you work in the financial services industry, don't talk to me about risk or you 'risk' getting a fist hitting your face so hard that your head turns up inside out on the other side of the nearest wall. Just get your f**king act together and stop attracting attention to yourselves like a bunch of spoilt toddlers.

As someone in the finance industry who deals with risk for a living I have this to say:
As an itinerant IT tester don't presume to have an opinion about things you don't understand.
You don't have a "real" job, you just test software: that looks as ephemeral as any finance job from where I'm sitting.
Now back in you box and where's that bottle of Petrus?

Insolent Peasant.

[MarillionFan]

As someone in the finance industry who deals with risk for a living I have this to say:
As an itinerant IT tester don't presume to have an opinion about things you don't understand.
You don't have a "real" job, you just test software: that looks as ephemeral as any finance job from where I'm sitting.
Now back in you box and where's that bottle of Petrus?

Insolent Peasant.

Ouch.