City workers salaries

Sugar_Coated_Owl

studentphil wrote:

I have done a day's work in my life.

I thought that you said you had never had a job.

OddjobKIA

studentphil wrote:

I am sure even I could sit there and press about on my Spreadsheets and I am nothing special.

What they do does not seem hugely special but maybe the hours and graft are.

Yes phill I am sure you can muck around with your spread sheets but you control those spreadsheets don't you

You take about £1,000,000 of somebody's money and gamble it against 70,000,000 other people trying to do the same.

It's like the old story

Guy comes in to a big firm to mend their new computer he walks up to it does a few checks and then taps it with a hammer 'hey presto' the comp works

Turns around to the boss and says £1000 please


The boss stands their and shouts iratley im not giving you £1000 for hittting a computer with a hammer anybody could do that.

The engineer says fine £1.00 for gitting the computer with a hammer
£999.00 for knowing where to hit it:cool:

studentphil

OddjobKIA wrote:

Yes phill I am sure you can muck around with your spread sheets but you control those spreadsheets don't you

You take about £1,000,000 of somebody's money and gamble it against 70,000,000 other people trying to do the same.

It's like the old story

Guy comes in to a big firm to mend their new computer he walks up to it does a few checks and then taps it with a hammer 'hey presto' the comp works

Turns around to the boss and says £1000 please


The boss stands their and shouts iratley im not giving you £1000 for hittting a computer with a hammer anybody could do that.

The engineer says fine £1.00 for gitting the computer with a hammer
£999.00 for knowing where to hit it:cool:

Maybe anyone be taught were to hit it and so where is the specialness in that?

studentphil

razorbladekisses wrote:

I thought that you said you had never had a job.

Never a job in that sense, but I have done odd days of paid work.

southernscouser

studentphil wrote:

Never a job in that sense, but I have done odd days of paid work.

Did you declare it to the tax man? :think:

studentphil

southernscouser wrote:

Did you declare it to the tax man? :think:

I did, I was still inside my personal allowance.

OddjobKIA

If you stack shelves in tesco you kn ow where your going to put the frosties and when youve done that you know you've done it right!

Where to put your clients £1,000,000 is a risk based on assumption, guess work, and knowledge of the market, whats more you have to know when to take the investnment back out again for your clients maximum return. To early and you could miss out on another 2.5% profit, to late and bye bye £1,000,000.

studentphil

The question really is, what makes these people so special to get these jobs?

Edinburghlass_2

studentphil wrote:

The question really is, what makes these people so special to get these jobs?

What do people make of them getting tens of thousands in bonuses?

Really they don't work any harder than many nurses or charity workers for example, so it could be seen as pure greed rather than healthy rewards.

Just incase the op and thread title change and we then don't appear very silly for posting what type of house we live in

OddjobKIA

studentphil wrote:

The question really is, what makes these people so special to get these jobs?

Phill ibleive your in uni studying an ology yes. You have to know your field to do well in your tests.

these people have to know about everything to do well in theirs.

bad weather in South America will affect the bannana growth down there wich means the transport company will not need to send as many drivers in trucks to pick them up and ship them to the uk which means that supermarkets will have to charge more for the fruit than they did last week.


How many industries are involved in the above scenario. How many companies will lose out and then their shares will plumit.
And shares in the the companies that deal with the bannana growers in south africa will rise as we will then buy our fruit from there this week.


I don't suppose your old enough to remember the storm that hit South Califonia about 15 years ago and wiped out the bannana crop.

America almost had a huge depression untill the goverment bailed out one particular part of the chain. Do you know which service almost went bust taking america with it. If it's that easy to do then you will be able to answer me easily?