Hi All,
The office windows were blacked out in an effort to recreate
a Las Vegas circa 1920s style casino atmosphere, with people solely focused on
their tripod screens and the space telephones that were standard issue. The office space was noisy and chaotic, however, with overflowing ashtrays, cups
of tepid coffee and physical paper files piled on tops of the terminals and
under the space telephones : men and women yelled and worked with an intensity. The
noise. The swearing . Surviving by your wits alone. Trusting only your gut. Dog
eat dog. Space phones were thrown:
wastebaskets were kicked, files thrown everywhere, curses shouted. And a miasma of cigarette and cigar smoke hung everywhere. It was a million miles away
from the gentlemanly world of the Bankers, but this place was an important to
the financial services eco system as any banker: the Trading Floor.
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