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)”
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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)”
“The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague
” Fledging moralists in those days were going about our town proclaiming there was nothing to be done about it and we should bow down to the inevitable. And Tarrou, Rieux and their friends might give one answer or another, but its conclusion was always the same, their certitude that a fight must be putContinue reading ““The Plague” by Albert Camus: Passage for Reflection: The Fight Against the Plague”
Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!
“In the early days, when they thought that this epidemic was much like the other epidemics, religion held its ground, But, once these people realized their instant peril, they gave their thoughts to pleasure. And all the hideous fears which stamp their faces in the daytime are transformed in the fiery, dusty nightfall into aContinue reading “Passage for contemplation: Albert Camus: “The Plague”: Pleasure in the Peril!”
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