Margin Call - Workplace Life and Death Handbook

Violet 2022-04-21 09:01:58

It does not involve too deep financial expertise, so I feel more of the cruel workplace on the eve of the crisis

Keywords: layoffs

1. The atmosphere of panic when the company laid off people on a large scale is too realistic (I don’t know if the current JD is also like this)

2. You are not fired not necessarily because you are more valuable, but because you are not hacked (HR says it's no way personal is not true)

3. Those who hold important interests or handles of the company will not be fired, but the price may be stuck in there forever

Keywords: back the black pot

Abandoning the car in times of crisis to protect the handsome

Keywords: stand up

It is very important to stand in a team. Those who know the times are the heroes, but they are loyal to the values. It is the warriors who are not against the tide at the critical moment.

tags: stand

People make different decisions in the workplace, mainly because of different positions, not personal reasons such as ability/character/values ​​(Spacy is reluctant to clear positions, mainly because doing so directly hurts other departments the most)

A few more impressive snippets:

1. At first, Spacy's character cried for the dead dog at home, but was indifferent to the tragic layoffs in his department, giving people the feeling of being a very cold-blooded person, but when he strongly opposed the clearance, his subordinates were loyal to him, and he published that paragraph before the clearance. His tragic words, as well as his request to resign, made people see his remaining humanity. At the end of the night, I was alone in front of my ex-wife's house to dig a grave for the dead dog. On the other hand, the big boss, Todd, who has achieved this position is very tough.

2. Spacy's subordinates are also rare in this cold-blooded industry. The words with the children in the car are very harsh but true. It is very important to recognize yourself and know what you want.

3. In the early morning of the clearance day, Spacy talked to the protagonist who picked up the USB flash drive. Soon a large wave of helicopters flew over, and the board of directors and shareholders were about to take their places. At this time, the two of them looked up and the camera did not show the sky, but imagine That scene is really like the end of the world is coming.

4. I thought it was a true story, but I feel more and more that something is wrong. Although I don’t understand finance, if Goldman Sachs liquidates its positions overnight, I am afraid that the financial crisis will come immediately, and the US government will not agree. It turns out that the reality is that Goldman Sachs spends money. It has been selling for more than a month and has bought a lot of short positions to hedge.

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Extended Reading
  • Adela 2022-04-24 07:01:06

    The initiator of the 2008 financial crisis, the fearless word of profit came to the fore.

  • Tamia 2022-03-26 09:01:05

    IFC 171111 is out now.

Margin Call quotes

  • John Tuld: So you think we might have put a few people out of business today. That its all for naught. You've been doing that everyday for almost forty years Sam. And if this is all for naught then so is everything out there. Its just money; its made up. Pieces of paper with pictures on it so we don't have to kill each other just to get something to eat. It's not wrong. And it's certainly no different today than its ever been. 1637, 1797, 1819, 37, 57, 84, 1901, 07, 29, 1937, 1974, 1987-Jesus, didn't that fuck up me up good-92, 97, 2000 and whatever we want to call this. It's all just the same thing over and over; we can't help ourselves. And you and I can't control it, or stop it, or even slow it. Or even ever-so-slightly alter it. We just react. And we make a lot money if we get it right. And we get left by the side of the side of the road if we get it wrong. And there have always been and there always will be the same percentage of winners and losers. Happy foxes and sad sacks. Fat cats and starving dogs in this world. Yeah, there may be more of us today than there's ever been. But the percentages-they stay exactly the same.

  • Will Emerson: Jesus, Seth. Listen, if you really wanna do this with your life you have to believe you're necessary and you are. People wanna live like this in their cars and big fuckin' houses they can't even pay for, then you're necessary. The only reason that they all get to continue living like kings is cause we got our fingers on the scales in their favor. I take my hand off and then the whole world gets really fuckin' fair really fuckin' quickly and nobody actually wants that. They say they do but they don't. They want what we have to give them but they also wanna, you know, play innocent and pretend they have no idea where it came from. Well, thats more hypocrisy than I'm willing to swallow, so fuck em. Fuck normal people. You know, the funny thing is, tomorrow if all of this goes tits up they're gonna crucify us for being too reckless but if we're wrong, and everything gets back on track? Well then, the same people are gonna laugh till they piss their pants cause we're gonna all look like the biggest pussies God ever let through the door.

    Seth Bregman: Do you think we're gonna be wrong?

    Will Emerson: [long pause] No, they're all fucked.