The definite, new "How Do You Feel" Thread

[hyena]

nf: FUCK THE FUCKING FUCK and the nasdaq for good measure. while i was out at the movies, google stocks lost 12 per cent (in the after hours market, go figure) due to quarterly results that were not up to the expectations. cue to 'i bang my head against the wall' sung to bruce dickinson's tears of the dragon (and the dragon is not alone in crying, i tell you).

the damn things are down to 376 dollars apiece, my average price is 452, and i didn't have but a small amount of money to average down tonight (otherwise i would have bought the world in anticipation of the inevitable bounce). and to think i didn't sell them when they were at 475 because no, i was anticipating more, thanks to the FUCKING analysts at citibank and whatnot who said: target price 500. on to new FUCKING adventures.

oh, FUCK. i'm still on a healthy gain portfolio-wise, but this is the first short-term botched operation i head into. i'll hold on and wait, of course (probably four years, from the outlook of things, and with a shite exchange rate trend stuff is bound to get worse), but i sort of FUCKING hate this.

 

[Magrathean]

From what little understanding i have of such matters, i think i know what happened. Sorry to hear. I hope it works out fine (obviously), but it's better to be pessimistic and not be surprised if it doesn't happen.

Anything we forum members can do to make you happier / less angry?

 

[hyena]

everyone buy google stocks, possibly in chunks of $1 million, and reverse the horrible phenomenon.

 

[Magrathean]

Will do, just let me find $1,000,000. I know i left it somewhere...

 

[fireangel]

everyone buy google stocks, possibly in chunks of $1 million, and reverse the horrible phenomenon.

I`m not sure of how many employees google has, but concerning stocks in general, there is this weird phenomenon that normal workforce-people have some shares of funds with a couple of different stocks (let´s say of famous industry/bank names). Then the companies dismiss workers/ employees in order to improve their shareholder value, even though they are financially sound, and increase joblessness. So that way the people, who just have some shares of stocks or shares of an investment fund for earning some retirement money, probably endanger their own jobs or those of their families and neighbours without being aware of it.

 

[Magrathean]

See? Capitalism is evil.

 

[hyena]

@fireangel: if it wasn't 8.26am i probably would have told you that your theory is pure delirium. it probably is, but it's too early for me to be sure, i'll read again tonight.

@alex: well, yes, capitalism is being fairly evil to me in this particular moment, but i hope it sees the error of its ways.

 

[Dark_Silence]

Dark_Silence: And didn't a certain person take care of you during those four days?

When we live at 500 km from each other, its kinda hard, but over the phone, yeah

 

[Magrathean]

Well, how's the moving going?

 

[marduk1507]

@hyena: shit happens, especially at the stock market I guess. But Im surprised google went down so much.

 

[Dark_Silence]

pretty well, all the administrative things are ok, i have all the informations i need, I am just waiting for my mom to drive me over there with my stuffs (there is too much to take to travel by train, and I don't have a driver licence). I should be there the weekend before Valentine's day .

 

[Magrathean]

Aww... I'm really happy for you guys. I kind of wish i were in your place.

 

[marduk1507]

I have a nasty cold, fuggig shid!

 

[Geri]

nf: desperate and depressive

 

[marduk1507]

Being depressive is sometimes even worse than being depressed. Whats up, a foreigner in a foreign country, homesick? I feel like shid because of my cold, I can barely breathe.

 

[fireangel]

@fireangel: if it wasn't 8.26am i probably would have told you that your theory is pure delirium. it probably is, but it's too early for me to be sure, i'll read again tonight.

it´s surely possible to find counterarguments to everything, so go ahead. Unless no government has really proven if either demand-oriented or supply-oriented decisions will bring jobs, growth and happy people, so I don´t believe purely economic wisdom knows everything. I can aswell go and make up my own theories But I do see from many industry decisions, that they do dismiss (office) workers even though they have a huge surplus and are by no means unproductive or short of money. Just it would look even_better for the shareholder value and their stocks, if less people could do the same work (by usually reduced quality I might add).

Of course you cannot subsidize unproductive work forever, and in some cases, it can really be done in the same quality cheaper abroad, but in many cases not, it´s really not necessary and production in Germany would be efficient, too; plus many a "cheaper" production is only so by huge subsidies at the new location, financed by tax-payers who that way pay (!) for having work in their town.


I probably won´t be able to reply to you before the weekend, so take this for the next days, some employee of a manufacturer said this in the paper: "The directors of this company want their own income to be like in the US, and the workers´ income like in Bangladesh".

 

[rahvin]

it´s surely possible to find counterarguments to everything,

you do make the job a little too easy, though.

 

[solefald]

NF.quite happy just wrote my last big exam for the next 3 months, so now Im free

 

[Siren]

@undies: that picture is err..sweet, thanks.
but neither pillows nor UM can help at such moments, heh.

@mardy: get well!

NF: a bit tired. was an ok day though..

 

[fireangel]

you do make the job a little too easy, though.

just because you would list up a bunch of arguments would not mean that they are necessarily correct, even if you smugly would think so and have the case closed. Nobel-prize winners haven´t found a solution yet, but I´m sure a librarian/translator will save the world.