Chapter 8 Will the Doberman lawyers be needed in your “downsizing”? So, you have a termination package in your hand. There is a line for you to sign before the law will consider it binding. Never sign anything on the spot! The first thing you should do is to determine how long largecorp’s offer isContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment International: Chapter 8: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
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Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 7: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 7 Your new friend the outplacement counsellor Largecorp and the in its pocket management faculties have obliterated the word “fired”. A gentler term to use is “downsized”. This gentle term was no doubt invented by some management faculty whiz years ago. It has been so effective that in addition to the Human Resources DepartmentContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 7: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 6; (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 6 Welcome to the theatre of the “downsized” I knew something ominous was imminent when I received a call from Felicity Poker’s assistant that our 3 o’clock meeting had been switched from Poker’s office to an office in the Human Resources Department. Instinctively I knew It was going to be my own Blessed Event.Continue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International; Chapter 6; (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment International: Chapter 5: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 5 The lament of the lost Martini lunch OK, we have moved along at a good clip here so perhaps let us take a bit of a rest to digest the Blessed Event and get a bit sidetracked. Sometimes it takes the passage of time to determine the true nature of events and theContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment International: Chapter 5: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 4: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 4 My reaction to the Blessed Event and what yours should be! Most victims of the Blessed Event exhibit a whole series of emotions that kick in, most of which are potentially self destructive and unhelpful. Now, if you have been around long enough at largecorp countless of your colleagues have been “downsized” becauseContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 4: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Albert Camus “The Plague”: The new order
“Through this sudden setback of the plague was as welcome as it was unlooked for, our townsfolk where in no hurry to jubilate. While intensifying their desire to be set free, the terrible months they had lived through taught them prudence. and they had come to count less and less on a speedy end ofContinue reading “Albert Camus “The Plague”: The new order”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)
Chapter 3 Back from vacation under the control of Felicity Poker It was a beautiful July day in Toronto and I could see the harbour below with the sun shimmering off the placid waters of Lake Ontario. Beautiful puff clouds switched the sun off and on like some psychedelic light show. Terribly refreshed I feltContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: (A serialized novel by Robert K. Stephen)”
Albert Camus “The Plague”: The power of the graph
” But it seemed like the plague had settled in for good at its most virulent, and it took a daily toll of deaths with the punctual zeal of a good civil servant. Theoretically, and in the view of the authorities, this was a hopeful sign. The fact that the graph after its long risingContinue reading “Albert Camus “The Plague”: The power of the graph”
Albert Camus “The Plague”: The lack of individual destinies
“Thus week by week the prisoners of the plague put up what fight they could. Some like Rambert, even contrived to fancy they will still behaving as free men and had the power of choice. But actually, it would have been truer to say that by this time, mid-August, the plague had swallowed up everything,Continue reading “Albert Camus “The Plague”: The lack of individual destinies”
Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 2: (A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen)
CHAPTER 2 It all started out not too badly at my first largecorp My first legal job was in the mid eigthies with an up-and-coming insurance company in downtown Toronto by the name of Canadian Reassurance Assistance Providers Ltd. or as many referred to it simply as CRAP. CRAP was initially a regional insurance companyContinue reading “Life at Up Up and Away Investment Management International: Chapter 2: (A Serialized Novel By Robert K. Stephen)”
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