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Saturday, June 11, 2011

Certificate of toolishness: signed, sealed, and delivered...

I had a sit-down with the boss man the other day where I learned three very important facts.:

  1. I have absolutely no idea what I'm doing and what the economy/investment/money is 
  2. there's a finite amount of time before everyone else that I work with also realizes this
              3.  I'm a tool

The main purpose of this sit-down was to explain what our small little group does in the fast empire that is apparently Deutsche Bank. So we started out with facts such as
  1. Deutsche Bank is an empire.
  2. An ORFE major would have been a better choice as an intern, whereas a COS major was probably just a mistake...
  3. Germans are going to take over the world
  4. [propaganda]
and, most importantly:
  1. working at Deutsche Bank is not the equivalent as working at Bank of America. As in Deutsche Bank invests people's money and Bank of America is just a regular bank that you put your money in and get loans from. This was not explicitly stated, but it's what I gleaned from the conversation using my rudimentary knowledge of both the German language and Bank of America…which might explain why when I checked BoA's wikipedia article just now, I learned that BoA does, in fact, invest people's money. Fact 1 that I have no idea what I'm doing: proven.

I'm sure there were other points, I just couldn't understand them.

1 comment:

  1. A tool would never admit to being a tool. You're still awesome. For the internship: just google it. Seriously. I have learned entire programming languages like this.

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