boo boo

Uh oh. Our daily research brief gave a nasty nasty write up on a certain company, and ended with saying,

"We are ceasing coverage on XX Berhad"

NOT. good. news.

Within the hour, my boss got a call from one of the managing directors, a personal friend of his.

*i sink lower in chair, don't want to be seen, pretend i don't know anything*
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My colleague who shares a cubicle with me is actually quite an eligible young man, except that he annoys me like heck sometimes. He prefers to dispose of his rubbish and empty teh tarik plastic drink packets in MY rubbish bin instead of his own, which works perfectly fine.

shit hitteth the fan

in the form of the client screaming that they wanted their documents yesterday.

that resulted in the following chain of events

Big Boss got Shat on
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Bi.g Boss Shat on Two Smaller (but still big) Bosses
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Two Smaller (but still big) Bosses Shat on (no surprise there), ME.

At 1am, when everyone was tired after being shat on all day, the last we wanted to do was debate over some incomprehensible Islamic concept which didn't make sense from a commercial perspective.

I wished I could skewer the people who just were nit-bloody-picky, but those people were the Syariah advisers. I'd be in serious violation of Islamic principles.