First day at Lehman

I'm writing this from my bed in the Manhatten apartment on the W. 72th street.
Here are the details of my first day at lehman, for my later reference.

Got up at 6:30am, Ed called at 6:25, gave me a few more minutes to stay on the bed. I happily accepted his suggestion. Nicole did not come back at night. Good, not one
to battle the bathroom with.

After all the morning drill, still lots of time left. Watching TV, eating apples, Checking email, found out that the meeting time is 15 minutes earlier than I thought! Jumped into the shoes and left in a hurry.

The orientation was on the 32nd floor. A big crowd of summer associates there already. As it later turned out, this is a class of 66 people! Most of the kids are columbia, warton, NYU. There are some MIT, Harvard, cornell, Duke, only 3 from CMU.

Welcoming address from an MD, an HR personel, an paycheck guy, a security manager, a compliance officer, and an behavioral advisor ( who specialize in sexual harrassment). Some good joke from the security guy and the sexual Hr talks.

Lunch I had salmon. Some guys had only a couple of greens on the plates, I wonder if they were too nervous or anorexic.

The training in the afternoon lasted 4 hours. The guy John did a great job in compressing profesional level material on equity and fixed income into 4 hours and engaging the crowd constantly.

I love his example on bad credit credit card. Solved my puzzle from the observation in Rite Aid, that there are American Express "credit card" type of cash card with denomination of 20 to 30 dollars on sale at the price of 23/34 dollars. Who is stupid enought to pay a premium of 10% to substitute cash with a card with the "american express" name on it? Now I know.