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Temp Agent: "Erin, are you comfortable on a trading floor?"
(Beat)
Me: "Well, I've never been on a trading floor, but I'm comfortable everywhere I go."

Money has been short, so....

Today. Erin Schultz. Trading floor.

I giggled throughout the day at the absurdity.

The details:

• A THIRTY line telephone bank
• Assisting thirteen men in sales
• A "Big Boss" with "bat phone" to cover
• Lots of ringing/yelling/money talk
• Me

My responsibility is primarily the phone. It does not have a receiver and sits directly on the desk, always at hand. The process is as follows:

Telephone rings/"hit" the line/yell at the trader to pick it up (seriously YELL across the room)/hit release/continue

There is some yelling, swearing, a man tossing a baseball, and the "Big Boss" called his men in the conference room with a football nestled in his arm.

I am totally amused. I am totally terrified.

I texted a simple "OMG" to Claire.

It could not be summed up more perfectly.