I guess this is one the few, if not first, unhappy blog entry.. and it's work related! sigh sigh.. think monthend blues.. Friday was a crazy crazy day.. I handle two PLs and the smaller desk.. well.. trader disagreed with the MTM once again and it is an exotic book with only one (problematic, may I add) swaption trade that has been causing so many problems since June, Friday the 13th! My boss said it's "typical" and yea after working with a certain mr expert on it, we thought we cleared the issue when on monthend he disagreed again.. a diff of TRY46K. !!! and then the other PL was also in a big big mess. omg.
It was also J9's last day and I think I'm gonna miss her so much! We had so much fun during our lunches and all.. but I wish her all the best as she goes to US for exchange and then back to Uni of Bath for her final year. She asked me to visit her in Bath next year.. oh well, I might. We had a mini team lunch at Silk Street, our fav open air market with so many stalls esp on Fridays.
It's quite a cute farewell culture over here. People gather round the desk of the guy who's leaving, and then the manager has to give a short speech, and then the person will give his/ her speech, and finally everyone will applaude (and them zoom, everyone goes back to their desks). I went with Emma to Ted Baker round the corner to get her a lovely satin clutch after collecting a decent amount of money from everyone- "very Janine", we thought. And were very pleased when a few ladies came up to comment they want one for themselves too! haha good taste eh
And then when I thought the PL was okay, the trader came back again and tried to segregate them by ccys and we just couldn't get them sorted out, somehow they had to trade a million things on monthend with like countless late trades & trade amendments (??!!) . And that was at 6pm boohoo... my manager kindly helped to take a look, and then I still had EOD to do! my god.. and people were waiting for me to generate and finalise the numbers. Really thankful for my nice manager who stayed back with me till 8plus (esp it was Friday and people usually leave earlier on Fridays), helped me explain to the trader whatever he wanted so I could start on my EOD. Thank God for nice bosses like him!
Left about 9pm.. think my brain refused to work by then and was so thankful that it was still bright... at least not so depressing. So looking forward to the weekend!
It was also J9's last day and I think I'm gonna miss her so much! We had so much fun during our lunches and all.. but I wish her all the best as she goes to US for exchange and then back to Uni of Bath for her final year. She asked me to visit her in Bath next year.. oh well, I might. We had a mini team lunch at Silk Street, our fav open air market with so many stalls esp on Fridays.
It's quite a cute farewell culture over here. People gather round the desk of the guy who's leaving, and then the manager has to give a short speech, and then the person will give his/ her speech, and finally everyone will applaude (and them zoom, everyone goes back to their desks). I went with Emma to Ted Baker round the corner to get her a lovely satin clutch after collecting a decent amount of money from everyone- "very Janine", we thought. And were very pleased when a few ladies came up to comment they want one for themselves too! haha good taste eh
And then when I thought the PL was okay, the trader came back again and tried to segregate them by ccys and we just couldn't get them sorted out, somehow they had to trade a million things on monthend with like countless late trades & trade amendments (??!!) . And that was at 6pm boohoo... my manager kindly helped to take a look, and then I still had EOD to do! my god.. and people were waiting for me to generate and finalise the numbers. Really thankful for my nice manager who stayed back with me till 8plus (esp it was Friday and people usually leave earlier on Fridays), helped me explain to the trader whatever he wanted so I could start on my EOD. Thank God for nice bosses like him!
Left about 9pm.. think my brain refused to work by then and was so thankful that it was still bright... at least not so depressing. So looking forward to the weekend!
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