Funniest thing ever seen at a prop firm

Not prop related but.....

I was Clerking at the CBOE a couple of years ago and absolutely hated $1 burger days at McDonalds due to the fact I would always have to run out and get the guys in my group burgers and smuggle them onto the floor.
I pissed off one of the traders on burger day and he decided to have the whole OEX/Dow pit place an order for McDonalds cheeseburgers. Ended up being something like 90 burgers. They then started making markets for the number of trips it took.
Only Took me 2 Trips...
 
There are two types of men in the world. Fighterpilots and jetliner pilots.

The jetliner pilot is very mature and never makes a move that could be considered wrong. He walks through the airport in a confident mature way smiling and is seen as a trustable figure to the public. When flying is craft, he will never place his passengers in danger. Even in the face of danger, he always remains calm.

The fighterpilot is on the opposite end of the jetliner pilot. Always pulling risky moves with his craft, always messing around and emotionally immature. Taking risks that others would not take and always placing himself in danger.

Someone like yourself has graduated to the jetliner pilot phase of life where as hydroblunt is still a fighterpilot.

In any fighter squadron, someone always dies, even in peacetime. Thats the nature of the beast where as, in comparison, very few jetliner pilots die each year. In fact, theree are some years where no jetliner pilots die.

He and the others will eventually graduate to the jetliner stage in life.

One thing is for certain, there is a place for fighter pilots and a place for jetliner pilots. They both fulfill two different roles in life that are not compatible with the other.

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Daytraders for the most part lose their shirt. This is the perfect example. Many of the guys who came in to our firm during the bubble are now broke. Hundreds of thousands down the drain.. and most were in their 20's without an education. Look at them now.. I'm not unique in this case. I lost 80% of my net worth but at least had a degree. But I have known the game fairly well, and the players in them. These guys weren't stupid by any means.. but they saw people who were making sick money by a few clicks of a button and got suckered in.

After many of these traders left, owners of these firms became more desperate for commisions, and they reached out to ANYONE they could get their hands on. At this one firm- Block Trading which is now defunct- they would roll in senior citizens who literally looked like they came straight from Atlantic City and thought this was the newest form of slots. Trust me, I looked around at different firms, and for the most part, these were the new breed of customers.

Then came the marketing ploy. Many of the owners went after college kids. The common gimmick was "Why not spend your tuition money on a real education?" In some sense it should be illegal for firms to recruit like this.. but then again, daytraders are merely customers. Of course college kids fell for it, and then became slaves to the industry because they couldn't get a legit job without a degree.

There are guys here like Hydroblunt and others who trash people who try to get real jobs.. due to the fear of being "replaced by a black box" or "quality of life issues." All i know is that the few traders who are successful, NEVER talked like that. They knew there was no glamour in this shit. They were the first ones to admit they are in a dead-end job, but they had to make the best of the situation. And they are still making money after so many years.

For me, I had some great days over the last 8 years.. and still excited about being profitable after 03-04 being a total disaster. But whether you want to believe it or not, the guys who actually believe this is some kinda dream job are kidding themselves.

I would welcome some replies..
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The fighterpilot is on the opposite end of the jetliner pilot. Always pulling risky moves with his craft, always messing around and emotionally immature. Taking risks that others would not take and always placing himself in danger.

In any fighter squadron, someone always dies, even in peacetime. Thats the nature of the beast...
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I don't think you really know what you are talking about.
 
Quote from michaelscott:

There are two types of men in the world. Fighterpilots and jetliner pilots.

The jetliner pilot is very mature and never makes a move that could be considered wrong. He walks through the airport in a confident mature way smiling and is seen as a trustable figure to the public. When flying is craft, he will never place his passengers in danger. Even in the face of danger, he always remains calm.

The fighterpilot is on the opposite end of the jetliner pilot. Always pulling risky moves with his craft, always messing around and emotionally immature. Taking risks that others would not take and always placing himself in danger.

Someone like yourself has graduated to the jetliner pilot phase of life where as hydroblunt is still a fighterpilot.

In any fighter squadron, someone always dies, even in peacetime. Thats the nature of the beast where as, in comparison, very few jetliner pilots die each year. In fact, theree are some years where no jetliner pilots die.

He and the others will eventually graduate to the jetliner stage in life.

One thing is for certain, there is a place for fighter pilots and a place for jetliner pilots. They both fulfill two different roles in life that are not compatible with the other.
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emotionally immature? I would have thought the opposite ought to be the case.
 
Quote from michaelscott:

There are two types of men in the world. Fighterpilots and jetliner pilots.

The jetliner pilot is very mature and never makes a move that could be considered wrong. He walks through the airport in a confident mature way smiling and is seen as a trustable figure to the public. When flying is craft, he will never place his passengers in danger. Even in the face of danger, he always remains calm.

The fighterpilot is on the opposite end of the jetliner pilot. Always pulling risky moves with his craft, always messing around and emotionally immature. Taking risks that others would not take and always placing himself in danger.

Someone like yourself has graduated to the jetliner pilot phase of life where as hydroblunt is still a fighterpilot.

In any fighter squadron, someone always dies, even in peacetime. Thats the nature of the beast where as, in comparison, very few jetliner pilots die each year. In fact, theree are some years where no jetliner pilots die.

He and the others will eventually graduate to the jetliner stage in life.

One thing is for certain, there is a place for fighter pilots and a place for jetliner pilots. They both fulfill two different roles in life that are not compatible with the other.
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You don't know shit about fighter pilots, and watching Top Gun doesn't count.
 
Quote from TM1:

Well, it was more realistic so we may have to allow that for experience.:D
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Hell, Hot Shots part Deaux didn't even have any jets and it was more realistic than Top Gun.
 
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