Kinder Joy

Another day of corporate joy and solidarity; our guys won the semifinal game against RBS 4-2… The final is on Wednesday.

Few banker-beings, while sweating after a head-size ball, were also presenting their deep knowledge of alternative dictionary. All the P-words have been used with utmost efficiency and high frequency… 15 colleagues from all ranks of the organizational hierarchy were fighting shoulder to shoulder, without hesitating to remind each other about parents’ genitals after every mistake.

The game itself could summarize the real meaning of teamwork. It is not about collaborating, co-operating, synergy and sharing (at least not only), but about each member trying to give his/her best for the common good. They did…

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The elections are coming; hopefully a sizeable majority will go to vote, sacrificing few hours from their weekend leisure time. Otherwise “the regulators” will continue “regulating” all of us. (Isn’t it funny that Romanian slang uses “to regulate” as a substitute for “to f.ck”?)

When worldwide politicians, bureaucrats, technocrats and international media was talking about severe measures, fiscal policies and executive actions to shorten the lifespan of so called crisis, we were discussing to liberalize prostitution and dope in the parliament, on TV and at home.

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The crisis becomes part of our daily life, doesn’t make the news any more that often. But the urban wisdom of blaming bankers is so contagious, even the bankers started cursing themselves. This weekend the famous General Manager of the local branch of a foreign bank was mentioning the irrationality of a bank director earning EUR 10,000 per month (and he earns three times the same amount but he is the Almighty, he deserves it. How much those golf clubs cost you, Pal?)

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Don’t watch the movie “Surrogate”, Bruce Willis became the 12^th monkey himself. Search for “Black Books” on YouTube, watch some episodes. Read “The White Tiger” by Aravind Adiga. And have a nice day!