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]
that’s not even a bloomberg terminal. just a bunch of useless screens
Thompson?
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!
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.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SQ_5JM6bxis
The fake DB flys under a bridge and post the video.
I don’t trust people with spotless desks.
Huge douche!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyhcvep0NSo
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.
Middle chart at bottom is interesting. It just keeps going up.
His mousepad is upside down…
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..
@6 — I agree
@10 – that’s the chart Bernie Madoff uses…
@1 & @2
Etrade pro w/NYSE Arca open book.
@11 –> Great call. Spotless desk + upside down mousepad + joke trading program… My summer interns would call out this phony.
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.
He probably grabbed a photo and sat at the receptionists desk for the photo.
Actually, the background for this photo is from Olan Mill Photography entitled “Huge Doucher”, it’s fairly popular
@18
Receptionist has 3 screens? Seriously? And faces a wall?
Dude does not look worried. Therefore, he is not really involved in the investment world. Everyone I know looks worried.
@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.”
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!!!
@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?
not an horologist. what is that, a patek?
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.
I use the same kind of mouse. Logitech MX1000 = the best.
@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.
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.
Image metadata says image was taken on 9/15/2008 at 14:18 -8GMT with a Canon 20D.
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
Whoever took the picture didn’t adjust their white balance.
#31 — English composition 101, speaking of “just scream.”
The watch is IWC. The man is a homo!
@ 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.
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.
@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
@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
@34 IWC make great watches..
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..
Marc Schrenker is not on bloomberg.. zero results for his name..
The watch is a Swiss Army mechanical watch. Its automatic and costs a little less US$500.
I don’t have a life but I know a lot about watches…
#33 I’m not worried about it, I am mocking you. Class distinctions? That’s funny.
@37 is a troll. Hasn’t figured out how to get out of his parents basement yet. Don’t feed him.
31/37 h = Hofstra?
@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.
@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.
Notice on the fly-under video at about 1:30 that he takes great pains to show off his watch.
The charts in the picture are cropped so as not to show the fictional investment tools. The middle screen looks like forex currency pairs but the the pairs, dates, and account history at the bottom are cropped out, for good reason. He looks like he stayed up all night trading, right.