[nilesfunnies] Fw: FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS A WEEK

FRENCH TRADER WAS FORCED TO WORK 30 HOURS A WEEK
FRIENDS of rogue trader Jerome Kerviel last night blamed his $7 billion
losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour week.
Kerviel was known to start work as early as nine in the morning and still
be at his desk at five or even five-thirty, often with just an hour and a
half for lunch.

One colleague said: "He was, how you say, une workaholique. I have a
family and a mistress so I would leave the office at around 2pm at the
latest, if I wasn't on strike.

"But Jerome was tied to that desk. One day I came back to the office
at 3pm because I had forgotten my stupid little hat, and there he was, fast
asleep on the photocopier.

"At first I assumed he had been having sex with it, but then I
remembered he'd been working for almost six hours."

As the losses mounted, Kerviel tried to conceal his bad trades by covering
them with an intense red wine sauce, later switching to delicate pastry
horns.

At one point he managed to dispose of dozens of transactions by hiding them
inside vol-au-vent cases and staging a fake reception.

Last night a spokesman for Sócíété
Générálé denied that Kerviel was overworked, insisting he
lost the money after betting that the French were about to stop being rude,
lazy, arrogant b ** tards.
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