Industry

- No. -

See you later.

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Is the pool free?

Uh, one other lady. Soaking.

Oh. Not ideal. Hell is other people, right?

That was billionaire investor Jesse Bloom

talking at a digital conference to private equity investors

and investment bankers this week,

about his latest wager on what he believes

will be a rough stretch for American Corporations,

due to the economic hit brought by the coronavirus...

Harp, you still on the line?

Yeah. How many hours

are you spending away from your rig?

Hey. What are we doing about sales credits

on this Rican deal?

I just feel like I've really kept

the relationship with Felim ticking.

So, I was thinking that we could go halves?

Trickle-down economics.

That presupposes that I'm beneath you.

Let's discuss that tomorrow. You need to come in.

Everyone's back in the office.

I lost you. Yeah. Sorry,

it's super temperamental.

How many weeks' grace have I given you,

while people have been trickling back in?

- I'm not gonna keep asking. I...

You've been out long enough.

You know that I'm better placed here.

It is better for me to be here, I don't know that I can...

You're invisible where you are, and trust me,

from tomorrow morning, you don't want to be invisible.

What's tomorrow morning?

New York is sending over some emissary.

What, to "spy" on us? -

Usually they run it past me

when they add headcount to my desk.

It doesn't smell good.

A year is too long to be on your own.

- Tomorrow please. -

Floor eight. Doors opening.

Hey.

Listen, I know...

Did you change your number?

I've had the same number since I was nine.

Can't remember the last time I pissed in public.

I'd advise using one of the cubicles.

Germaphobe?

No.

Okay, look. I just wanna be cordial.

I don't want any issue that we have,

to affect our work.

We don't have an issue.

Welcome back.

- Bitch. -

Cunt.

This balding bureaucrat has made zero dollars of profit...

Despite trading flows

and volumes booming, I think we're still prudent

to lean out our operation, while the going's good.

Cost cutting in good times is... is doubly wise to my mind,

and again, frankly, we'll be looking

to subsume either New York CPS into London CPS or vice versa.

Trading from home has shown us, we can do more with less.

Sorry. Daniel Van Deventer.

My apologies. Dan is an Executive Director,

joining you from CPS New York.

- New York by way of New Haven. - Sorry. Uh, who subsumes who?

I've, uh, missed you, Eric.

Good to see you again, Danny, but I'm talking

to your boss here.

Daniel's worryingly young for someone I trust so much.

I'm telling you, if... if you take the best minds

and mouths away from the point of execution in London,

you are out of your mind.

The contrast between our COVID-era profits

and the absolute hell of mom-and-pop shops

on Main Street couldn't be starker.

Now, it may be an idea,

to leave your Pierpoint insignia gym bags behind

next time you go to whatever

black cod serving enclave is now de rigueur.

So, the mothers hip wants us to stay classy?

Just be considerate.

If you don't mind me asking, how do we protect ourselves?

Might as well say what you are all thinking.

Production. The people covering the biggest accounts

and those bringing in new clients.

Your worth at the firm is who you know outside the firm

and how those relationships are monetized.

Guys, this is just the reality.

We know we operate as a team, right?

Fleet of boats on the same tide.

Okay. Oh, joy.

Okay, there he goes.

All right, team, I've got

bullying and harassment training all day.

Hopefully, I'll pick up some tips.

Really looking forward with working with all of you.

- Have a good day. -

It took me a while to find my feet,

before I got a bit more established.

How've you found your first few weeks

- on the desk? - Oh, what I expected.

I just think of Foreign Exchange

as a bureau de change with pretensions.

I actually applied for the CPS desk.

It's got a good reputation on the street.

Yeah, unfounded.

Joking, obviously. It's a stellar team.

There is nothing more useless than Rishi's daily update.

He's never knowingly correct about the market.

CPS are living on reputation alone.

Nobody knows who's driving the car there anymore anyway.

No wonder New York is on to them.

Hope it doesn't affect us - They're close-knit.

Yo! Does anyone know what a fucking SPAC is?

One way of putting it.

Or you could just call them a bag of cunts!

I think that word's pretty unacceptable.

Unless you really love the person, right?

So, Howard Stern.

You're welcome back to the party. Not here.

Why were you late?

Oh, I was just hyping myself up.

Can you get me a coffee? Only if you're getting one.

- Oh, I wasn't. - You'll want one eventually.

- I can go out. - Harper's getting me one.

Sure.

And, Bob, don't think I've not noticed

you haven't made a single outgoing call

since we've been back. I know,

you've been dealing with incoming.

You're not just a catcher, you're a pitcher.

You were in that meeting.

Look, breathe on your hand.

- -

See? You're alive after all.

I was just doing my digest email.

Nobody... Nobody reads that email.

It's getting denser than Dostoyevsky. And less fun.

S&P up one percent. Ten-year, boring. Dollar, lower.

A digest is meant to be digestible!

Hello. Oh, you wanna speak to the infamous Bob?

Putting you through now. They wanna speak to Robert Ford.

That you? The coward Robert Ford?

I'm not scared.

Go to the dormant client list

and call the least active account.

Today.

- Hey. Who's sitting here? - New York said keep it empty.

What, for the new stiff?

Hey, can we circle back on that sales credit convo?

Hey, how about that coffee?

My parents got stuck

in Saint-Tropez. So ensconced themselves

in some villa at some inordinate price,

but I'm sure they are yet to fully mentally contend with.

- The food is vile. - Yeah, at 60 quid a crudité

at Cinquante Cinq, it's hard to go wrong.

Personally, I'm very proud of the fact

I went to two media-confirmed super-spreader events

and managed not to catch anything.

Ah, the blessings of privilege. It's like a halo.

Yeah, it's better than any mask.

Oh, is that soy?

Yo, Stern, didn't you back up Nicole at Mallon Mercer?

Honestly, don't waste your time.

Your buddy Yasmin's talking to that fund outta Brevan.

Jump on and show him you're a more sophisticated

touch point into our offering.

Are we stepping across FX accounts?

Fleet of ships on the same tide?

Let's make sure we're the biggest boat.

Are you worried that New York is outperforming us?

Hook into that call with FX. Today, please.

Is anyone here young enough to give a fuck

about meme stocks?

'Cause people keep asking me about 'em!