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Previously on "Oi, Banker! Leave that cash alone! All-in-all your just a..."

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by lilelvis2000 View Post
    I certainly had nothing to do with them. But I would have liked to!
    The "collateral damage" caused by the banks spending squillions on contractors is that it boosted demand everywhere else in the contract market- until Bob arrived.

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  • lilelvis2000
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    So more irony.. this coming from someone who is part of an industry that has enjoyed enormous financial benefits from building the systems that support these automotive banking transactions. You people who have invented, implemented and supported the complex trading sytems that have enabled the banks to not only conduct all their "dodgy transactions" but to also hide them away.
    I certainly had nothing to do with them. But I would have liked to!

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by zeitghost
    WXS.

    Though I suspect none of the stuff I've worked on has ever been that useful.

    Apart from some of the stuff that's part of stuff that's in orbit.

    'Nuff said.

    Is that where the term "space cadet" comes from Zeity?

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  • Mich the Tester
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    So more irony.. this coming from someone who is part of an industry that has enjoyed enormous financial benefits from building the systems that support these automotive banking transactions. You people who have invented, implemented and supported the complex trading sytems that have enabled the banks to not only conduct all their "dodgy transactions" but to also hide them away.
    Wot now? You've got an ATM in your car?

    Bloody agents; I knew all along they were ripping us off.

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by xoggoth View Post
    Some of us worked on useful stuff like power stations, oil and gas production or aircraft. AND we got paid about a third of what the darn bankery IT people got. Pah!
    But at least you can look at yourself in the mirror each morning

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  • xoggoth
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    You people who have invented, implemented and supported the complex trading sytems
    Some of us worked on useful stuff like power stations, oil and gas production or aircraft. AND we got paid about a third of what the darn bankery IT people got. Pah!

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  • nomadd
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    Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View Post
    ...overpaid arrogant twat!
    ...who has been paying my outrageous invoices for the last 5 years.

    ...and about another 10 years prior to that.

    Don't bite the hand that feeds, and all that.

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  • TimberWolf
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    Originally posted by DodgyAgent View Post
    So more irony.. this coming from someone who is part of an industry that has enjoyed enormous financial benefits from building the systems that support these automotive banking transactions. You people who have invented, implemented and supported the complex trading sytems that have enabled the banks to not only conduct all their "dodgy transactions" but to also hide them away.
    I thought Bob did it?

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  • DodgyAgent
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    Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View Post
    ...overpaid arrogant twat!
    So more irony.. this coming from someone who is part of an industry that has enjoyed enormous financial benefits from building the systems that support these automotive banking transactions. You people who have invented, implemented and supported the complex trading sytems that have enabled the banks to not only conduct all their "dodgy transactions" but to also hide them away.

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  • Peoplesoft bloke
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    Oi, Banker! Leave that cash alone! All-in-all your just a...

    you're

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  • d000hg
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    Originally posted by Jeff Maginty View Post
    ...overpaid arrogant twat!
    Two posts about this in one day... been out enjoying yourself have you?

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