Nice people thread part 7 - a thread in its prime

sss555s

Spirit wrote: »

I have opened aphotbucket account, and loaded a photo. How do I post it onto here now.

Sorry very dim

I use this one and it's very easy...

http://tinypic.com/

Open another browser window and follow this line by line...

Press the choose file button and browse to your picture on your PC.

Then click upload now.

You will have to type the security thing then click upload now.

Single click in the IMG code box (second one down) to highlight then right click and copy.

Paste it straight into your reply box on here.

:beer:

CKhalvashi

Just got back to the office!

We've had a brilliant day today, got loads of work done, and somehow managed to get all of management into one place!

If YBM is still around, this is for him, as I promised him 2 months ago!



CK

chewmylegoff

Another way of posting a picture is to select it, copy it, and then paste it into a message. Doesn't seem to work from a phone though.

chewmylegoff

Generali wrote: »

He could probably get a job as a 'quant' with an investment bank with his qualifications. If he's frugal he could retire in 5 years. A starting salary of $250,000 for a really good and suitable stats PhD isn't unheard of. With his qualifications he should start on about $50,000-80,000 and expect an absolute minimum of the same again in bonuses. After a year that would be more like $150,000 base and up to $500,000 including bonus. Year 3 or 4 could well see $1,000,000 in total flowing into silvermoped's bank account if things go well.

It's not challenging work as such but it is a challenging environment and a few years doing that could set him up for life to do something fun.

ETA I do mean $ not £.

i walked through a floor of an investment bank a couple of months ago, and literally no-one was surfing the internet or mucking about. they were all staring at spreadsheets. seemed like hell. i thought the point of a job was to find different and increasingly creative ways to avoid doing actual work, and certainly if you are going to do work forgodsake don't actually be productive!

admittedly all i do is stare at spreadsheets these days, but i am at least allowed to get a cup of tea every now and then.

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Another way of posting a picture is to select it, copy it, and then paste it into a message. Doesn't seem to work from a phone though.

Thanks Chewy! :eek::beer:

Generali

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i walked through a floor of an investment bank a couple of months ago, and literally no-one was surfing the internet or mucking about. they were all staring at spreadsheets. seemed like hell. i thought the point of a job was to find different and increasingly creative ways to avoid doing actual work, and certainly if you are going to do work forgodsake don't actually be productive!

admittedly all i do is stare at spreadsheets these days, but i am at least allowed to get a cup of tea every now and then.

That's because it's a bear market. Not literally of course but we have bear market conditions.

In a bull market you'll see much more larking around but still very little web surfing.

silvercar

Quote isn't working for me!

quoting: CK's pic (which looks like a meet up of a car owners club!)

You are giving that lovely sea view up? To move offices to NW9????

lemonjelly

New Derren Brown show tonight on channel 4 folks:
http://derrenbrown.co.uk/derren-brown-fear-and-faith-trailer/

Looks fun.

I think I'll have to wait to catch it on E4 or something later in the week - I'm going to this tonight:
http://www.thsh.co.uk/event/cbso-sue-perkins-cartoon-classics-12/

Recently bought tickets for the following tours for next year:
Derren Brown (may)
Bill Bailey (June)

Have seen that Reg D Hunter & Julian Clary are touring next may too. Julian Clary was fun last time, so wouldn't mind. Never seen Reg D Hunter, but he invariably cracks me up, so would like to go.

PasturesNew

Well, that's another week's income banked.... unless the firm go to the wall

I've been laid off from so very many firms over the year that each day as I drive home I think "That's another day banked"..... I seem to find the ones that are on their way under..... and I think I just did that again.... watch this space over the next 1-2 months I guess.

"Not boverd"" as they say. Been there before, got fistfuls of T shirts ..... know the score.

lostinrates

This seems to be going well though pn...being made god etc?


I want dh to get a train soon. We have so much to do this weekend that I feel daunted before starting. Lots of it is super boring too.