Ok c'mon. Given that the watch (just revealed enough to identify what is supposed to be a super-premium aviation model), cuff, and sleeve are so perfectly coordinated, how exactly are we supposed to believe that the totally paperless and totally spotless desk (sound familiar Made-off fans?), the tidy volumes, the oh-so-casually missing tie, the family picture and the charts in the background are anything but contrived? Candid picture? We think not.
Oh, and Marc(us), a Dealbreaker reader noticed that your mousepad is upside-down. That cushion is for your wrist.
Then there's this video, bearing the warning: This stunt shouldn't be attempted by any pilot that wishes to stay alive.
Do your own in-depth analysis on the high-resolution original:
Marc Schrenker [atGeist]
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:01PM
that's not even a bloomberg terminal. just a bunch of useless screens
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:02PM
Thompson?
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:03PM
Looks like software he bought at an fx trading seminar held in the lobby of a Vegas casino.
Look honey! lots of colored lines. We're rich!
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:03PM
This guy invested a lot of time and energy making sure everyone knew he spent a lot of money on status objects. What a empty and pointless life.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:05PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_5JM6bxis
The fake DB flys under a bridge and post the video.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:07PM
I don't trust people with spotless desks.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:08PM
Huge douche!
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:10PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyhcvep0NSo
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:13PM
His smirk just makes me want to punch him in the face, hold him down and pay a homeless dude $20 to shit on him.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:21PM
Middle chart at bottom is interesting. It just keeps going up.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:23PM
His mousepad is upside down...
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:23PM
what a pussy..., he was only on the hook for 500k, a state investigation, and a divorce. I hope they put him in jail with Shug Knight..
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:28PM
@6 --- I agree
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:39PM
@10 - that's the chart Bernie Madoff uses...
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:41PM
@1 & @2
Etrade pro w/NYSE Arca open book.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:42PM
@11 --> Great call. Spotless desk + upside down mousepad + joke trading program... My summer interns would call out this phony.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:43PM
Doing crimes for nickels and dimes. It's pretty sad for him to have go to such extremes over what seems to be so little. That is, unless he orchestrated his divorce and fake suicide as an attempt to protect his family.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:47PM
He probably grabbed a photo and sat at the receptionists desk for the photo.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:47PM
Actually, the background for this photo is from Olan Mill Photography entitled "Huge Doucher", it's fairly popular
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 6:57PM
@18
Receptionist has 3 screens? Seriously? And faces a wall?
Posted by Garuda , Jan 12, 2009 6:59PM
Dude does not look worried. Therefore, he is not really involved in the investment world. Everyone I know looks worried.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 7:31PM
@12, I bet the plane was worth more than the $500k. Now he's still on the hook for all that, with no plane, a wife that's twice as angry at his dumb ass, and he's in trouble with the law in the deep south. He's gonna find out about chain gangs and the "failure to communicate."
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 7:36PM
Wow...a Wall Street man who is also a family man, well dressed, rich, and organized? How dreamy! They must ALL be like this this in finance!!!
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 7:38PM
@4 So often that this is the system developed by these type of people though. Only to perpetuate the myth.
Wouldn't an island with a beach and a boat be so much better than spending all your time caring about what the assholes think?
Posted by daytraitor , Jan 12, 2009 8:00PM
not an horologist. what is that, a patek?
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 8:22PM
patek??? get your head out of your ass. just a shit swiss army. you can just about make out the ensignia if you blow it up.
also, that suit is from men's whorehouse.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 9:04PM
I use the same kind of mouse. Logitech MX1000 = the best.
Posted by Bulging Bracket , Jan 12, 2009 9:35PM
@26 I don't see the inisignia (no tell tale red shield) and the script looks about right for Patek. I'm with you on hating the jacket.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 9:40PM
Image metadata says it was take on 9/15/2008 at 14:53 with a Canon 20D.
Sept 15, 2008 is an interesting date in recent stock market history.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 9:41PM
Image metadata says image was taken on 9/15/2008 at 14:18 -8GMT with a Canon 20D.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 10:01PM
comments 1-30 and the original story just scream "I'm an ugly unsuccessful and cynical dork" the type that see me walk in a restaurant and get a table while they're forced to sit at the bar... say something to their equally dorky friend about "why is a girl so hot with such a douche [me]" ... i am a douche... a douche who drives a loaded range, trades in dime pieces every other period and makes more than your parents. i can't help but chuckle. enjoy your mediocre life.
- h'06
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 10:21PM
Whoever took the picture didn't adjust their white balance.
Posted by Garuda , Jan 12, 2009 10:37PM
#31 -- English composition 101, speaking of "just scream."
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 10:56PM
The watch is IWC. The man is a homo!
Posted by Anal_yst , Jan 12, 2009 11:11PM
@ Bulging Bracket
No way that is a Patek (2-line "logo" on most remotely current Patek's if memory serves correctly) and no big stamp on the top of the face below 12, and also the bezel looks a little thin to be a Patek, although it could be the angle.
I'm thinking Skagen.
Posted by guest , Jan 12, 2009 11:57PM
This picture was for promotional material. Hence the desk being clean the well dressed/laid back look. The well placed family picture and the totally random screens. He was an amateur photographer as well.
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 3:45AM
@33 instead of worrying about my sentence structure or what's "wrong" with a picture of guy who happens to fancy a clean desk, maybe you should focus on more important things... like getting out of the middle class.
what happened to this blog? feels different lately... like really state schoolish.
- h'06
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 8:36AM
@34 He's a homo, but IWC doesn't bother me. I hate people that wear submariners without the date and anyone who wears a breitling. Best watch is the the master banker franck muller
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 8:55AM
@34 IWC make great watches..
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 8:59AM
the software looks like an older version of REDI+ which is used by numerous traders in a number of products.. it is published by Goldman..
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 9:05AM
Marc Schrenker is not on bloomberg.. zero results for his name..
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 9:23AM
The watch is a Swiss Army mechanical watch. Its automatic and costs a little less US$500.
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 10:05AM
I don't have a life but I know a lot about watches...
Posted by Garuda , Jan 13, 2009 10:06AM
#33 I'm not worried about it, I am mocking you. Class distinctions? That's funny.
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 10:33AM
@37 is a troll. Hasn't figured out how to get out of his parents basement yet. Don't feed him.
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 10:40AM
31/37 h = Hofstra?
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 10:40AM
@37 h'06
Please keep posting, mediocrities like you are great for a laugh--braggadocio born of insecurity and incompetence is always entertaining.
You should bone up on your fellatio skills (that's called a pun), because giving head to your superiors is the only way you will survive this economic cycle.
Posted by guest , Jan 13, 2009 11:41AM
@37 h'06
I went to a state school for undergrad. I could buy and sell you and your faggoty WASP family ten times over.
Oh yeah, I played defensive end on the football team. I remember your sisters sucking off guys like me and my teammates, while pompous douchebags like you masturbated in front of your computers in college.
It's so easy to intimidate pussies like you at HBS. You are a joke.
Posted by guest , Jan 15, 2009 12:52AM
Notice on the fly-under video at about 1:30 that he takes great pains to show off his watch.