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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 hid his November losses in a batch of wonderfully fresh croissant
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 had 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 tranactions 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_stards.
losses on unbearable levels of stress brought on by a punishing 30 hour
week.
Kerviel hid his November losses in a batch of wonderfully fresh croissant
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 had 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 tranactions 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_stards.
