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are investment banks needed at all?

Not a financemo but They just seem like a nonessential middl...
Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza
  10/27/18
who else would underwrite capital offerings? sounds like you...
comical maize old irish cottage
  10/27/18
I'm not buying it. And show a little fucking respect, maybe ...
Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza
  10/31/18
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Hilarious spectacular psychic business firm
  10/31/18
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Disturbing henna hissy fit partner
  10/31/18
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spruce wonderful puppy
  10/31/18
We need to save naive grandmother-type F500 execs from getti...
orchid charismatic tank
  11/01/18
Why do they need underwriters? There's this trustless thing ...
adventurous dingle berry menage
  10/31/18
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adventurous dingle berry menage
  10/31/18
What exactly do you think underwriters do and how would that...
Floppy new version black woman
  11/01/18
cr. my thoughts exactly
Hairraiser Tan Factory Reset Button Stead
  11/01/18
LOL
trip school
  11/01/18
Good, this way you'll never see it coming
adventurous dingle berry menage
  11/01/18
When moon.
blathering talented pit
  11/01/18
In most ways investment banks behave just like car dealershi...
orchid charismatic tank
  10/27/18
Best layman description in this thread.
concupiscible brethren
  10/31/18
(literally LTM)
Disturbing henna hissy fit partner
  10/31/18
theyre called gas chambers
Electric charcoal center
  11/01/18
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aromatic misanthropic kitty cat
  11/01/18
for vanilla M&A or bond/equity deals, investment banks' ...
chestnut bateful heaven
  10/27/18
this makes sense. so how much could we shave off of the enti...
Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza
  10/31/18
most of it. a lot of F500s (esp. F10s, etc.) now have their ...
chestnut bateful heaven
  10/31/18
*jjc detector goes off*
Racy splenetic indian lodge pistol
  10/31/18
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Contagious Theatre
  10/31/18
there's a nice legal framework built up that mandates their ...
mahogany unhinged azn
  10/31/18
...
Contagious Theatre
  10/31/18
They have a lock-down on the M&A advisory and syndicatio...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  10/31/18
astonishingly AZN poast
ocher hall
  10/31/18
Lol OK. I guess we all live in a world where GCs of F500s...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  10/31/18
rook. risten...
Racy splenetic indian lodge pistol
  10/31/18
Hm extremely Asian poast again
Disturbing henna hissy fit partner
  10/31/18
Xoxo 2018: Having to explain basic shit like specialization ...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/01/18
(Guy who still doesn’t get why his poast is so asian)
Floppy new version black woman
  11/01/18
xoxo 2018: "yer poast sounds asian" is the default...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/01/18
sup NYUUG. friendly reminder to the board that i am talki...
Electric charcoal center
  11/01/18
it's true that corps need to hire outside experts bc it's no...
Lemon Locus Keepsake Machete
  11/20/18
What's to stop this company from growing cash reserves throu...
apoplectic garrison
  11/01/18
Private investment = issuing some form of equity or debt = s...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/02/18
Pretty sure they all belong in gas chambers.
aromatic misanthropic kitty cat
  11/01/18
for like 0.002% of shit
up-to-no-good field circlehead
  11/01/18
Just have Jan from human resources structure the new secured...
multi-colored insanely creepy shrine community account
  11/01/18
Most of the people who post on xoxo these days either never ...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/01/18
(guy desperate to make everyone believe that artificial conv...
adventurous dingle berry menage
  11/01/18
...
aromatic misanthropic kitty cat
  11/01/18
Go back to Tulane, you're done here.
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/02/18
(Xiuxiong "Frank" Chen)
Shimmering Useless Half-breed Church Building
  11/01/18
(Tulane grad working in a solo practice yet poasting on xoxo...
greedy meetinghouse incel
  11/02/18
...
Contagious Theatre
  11/02/18
I agree with this take. It's true that it's not rocket sc...
flickering trailer park
  11/01/18
For as long as investors have more money than they have idea...
flickering trailer park
  11/01/18
one of the first deals i ever worked on involved selling the...
Lemon Locus Keepsake Machete
  11/20/18
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Red Newt Striped Hyena
  11/20/18


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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:13 PM
Author: Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza

Not a financemo but They just seem like a nonessential middleman “advising” and collecting “fees” to me (kinda like some other profession I know).

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108845)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:20 PM
Author: comical maize old irish cottage

who else would underwrite capital offerings? sounds like your not just "not a financemo" but also perhaps a retard.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108880)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:11 AM
Author: Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza

I'm not buying it. And show a little fucking respect, maybe if you poast better I'll let you have a moniker (seriously, why the fuck dont you have a moniker?). Anyways, "underwrite capital offerings" I mean come on man. do we really need a million bankers soaking up insane amounts of rent to "underwrite capital offerings" fuck man,do you really believe this? Could we maybe get by just fine with say 10% of this entire industry?



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131330)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:14 AM
Author: Hilarious spectacular psychic business firm



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131351)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:21 AM
Author: Disturbing henna hissy fit partner



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131392)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:24 AM
Author: spruce wonderful puppy



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131410)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:26 AM
Author: orchid charismatic tank

We need to save naive grandmother-type F500 execs from getting exploited by hand-rubbing chad i-bankers in an openly competitive marketplace? I'm not seeing the problem with their services besides people believe they make too much money and don't really understand how or why so they assume they need to be shut down. If someone can come up with an alternative service that is cheaper and same or superior quality they will instantly win the marketplace.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136306)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 11:03 AM
Author: adventurous dingle berry menage

Why do they need underwriters? There's this trustless thing called blockchain and smart contracts

Ethereum's biggest potential use case is open finance, it's happening

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131619)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:44 PM
Author: adventurous dingle berry menage



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132556)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:17 AM
Author: Floppy new version black woman

What exactly do you think underwriters do and how would that be replaced by blockchain?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136263)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: Hairraiser Tan Factory Reset Button Stead

cr. my thoughts exactly

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136280)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: trip school

LOL

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138241)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:02 PM
Author: adventurous dingle berry menage

Good, this way you'll never see it coming

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138822)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: blathering talented pit

When moon.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138830)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:23 PM
Author: orchid charismatic tank

In most ways investment banks behave just like car dealerships or auction houses or realtors... they connect buyers and sellers of expensive assets and take a not-insubstantial chunk out of the transaction. People have suspected for a long time that there should be a way around these middlemen, but we haven't found it yet.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108901)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:17 AM
Author: concupiscible brethren

Best layman description in this thread.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131369)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:22 AM
Author: Disturbing henna hissy fit partner

(literally LTM)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131397)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: Electric charcoal center

theyre called gas chambers

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136273)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:19 AM
Author: aromatic misanthropic kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136278)



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Date: October 27th, 2018 9:24 PM
Author: chestnut bateful heaven

for vanilla M&A or bond/equity deals, investment banks' 'value add' is usually just providing cheap loans in the past (bulge brackets like citi, baml, etc.) that they leverage to run these sort of deals for the fees

elite boutique banks OTOH actually provide more valuable advice for corporate takeovers and such that birdbrained Chad CEOs cant figure out on their own

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37108902)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Self-absorbed Startled Faggot Firefighter Piazza

this makes sense. so how much could we shave off of the entire finance industry and still keep the same amount of professional expertise?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131338)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:48 AM
Author: chestnut bateful heaven

most of it. a lot of F500s (esp. F10s, etc.) now have their own in house corporate development teams (former bankers) to run most of the valuation analysis that banks provide. they usually get a bank and let them provide their 'advisory analysis' just to access their capital markets services to underwrite new debt/equity they need to buy X company or whatever

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131532)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:28 PM
Author: Racy splenetic indian lodge pistol

*jjc detector goes off*

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132079)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 10:12 AM
Author: Contagious Theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131336)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 11:01 AM
Author: mahogany unhinged azn

there's a nice legal framework built up that mandates their existence because pre-FDR companies were going buckwild selling all sorts of fraud securities to people. but yes as with most fields there is an incredible amount of waste, fraud, and abuse.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131612)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:03 PM
Author: Contagious Theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37131941)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:25 PM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

They have a lock-down on the M&A advisory and syndication racket. So yes, they are needed.

Joe Blow from XYZ Inc. in Kansas isn't going to have access to investors, let alone undertake an offering of securities anywhere in compliance with all the different offering restrictions. They have to go through a broker.

M&A it's all about the brokering of deals, and again, bankers use their network to make this work and do valuation. It makes life a lot easier for corporates, but costs a ton in fees.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132060)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:27 PM
Author: ocher hall

astonishingly AZN poast

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132076)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 12:50 PM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

Lol OK.

I guess we all live in a world where GCs of F500s are stupid dumbasses who enjoy paying out of their asses for pointless inconsequential "service providers" like bankers when they could just do it "in house" at a fraction of the cost.

These corps are paying for IB because they are busy doing shit like making cars or selling GC shit to wagecucks like you, and don't have the time or capability to market to pension funds located halfway around the world who may not even speak English or find a buyer for their shit subsidiary located in OshKosh Oklahoma. It's just the way it is.

The alternative is to hire a whole lot more people which will end up being more expensive in the long run and create a bunch of headaches because you have to do BS training and logistics for these new drones you just hired and pay for their healthcare and shit. Bankers you just use and dump once they've done their job.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132196)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:11 PM
Author: Racy splenetic indian lodge pistol

rook. risten...

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132338)



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Date: October 31st, 2018 1:33 PM
Author: Disturbing henna hissy fit partner

Hm extremely Asian poast again

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37132463)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:15 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

Xoxo 2018: Having to explain basic shit like specialization of labor to literal retards.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136251)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: Floppy new version black woman

(Guy who still doesn’t get why his poast is so asian)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136282)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:00 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

xoxo 2018: "yer poast sounds asian" is the default insult

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138141)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:20 AM
Author: Electric charcoal center

sup NYUUG.

friendly reminder to the board that i am talking to myself right now

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136279)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 2:57 AM
Author: Lemon Locus Keepsake Machete

it's true that corps need to hire outside experts bc it's not economical to have the necessary expertise in-house. it's also true that no corp is going to operate its own bond desks. lol at ford or caesar's or something directly selling securities to investors.

otoh IBs are no smarter than anyone else when out of their wheelhouse -- look at how bad they fucked up on CDO valuation and trading, causing ITE. it's reasonable to ask why IBs have such wild comp and fees; presumably you can run an advanced economy without paying howie hubler $25m to lose $9b.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268539)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 6:36 PM
Author: apoplectic garrison

What's to stop this company from growing cash reserves through private investment until cash flow positive, then doing a Spotify type direct listing to access the capital markets?

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37140906)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:04 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

Private investment = issuing some form of equity or debt = securitie = pwnd.

Issuers can't directly access capital markets without an intermediary, unless they want to be directly subject to all sorts of crazy regulations and lawsuits.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142723)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:18 AM
Author: aromatic misanthropic kitty cat

Pretty sure they all belong in gas chambers.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136269)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:27 AM
Author: up-to-no-good field circlehead

for like 0.002% of shit

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136314)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 12:28 AM
Author: multi-colored insanely creepy shrine community account

Just have Jan from human resources structure the new secured airplane leasing offering and draft all the required disclosure documents. She's sharp - I'm sure she'll figure it out if we all pitch in and get her a Dunkin gift card!

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37136317)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 11:13 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

Most of the people who post on xoxo these days either never went to law school or went to some TTT and never worked biglaw so we have retarded threads like this.

"bbbbut it's just copy and paste!" said the pea brain.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138231)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: adventurous dingle berry menage

(guy desperate to make everyone believe that artificial convolution makes him essential)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138832)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:03 PM
Author: aromatic misanthropic kitty cat



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138834)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

Go back to Tulane, you're done here.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142726)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:10 PM
Author: Shimmering Useless Half-breed Church Building

(Xiuxiong "Frank" Chen)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138862)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 12:05 AM
Author: greedy meetinghouse incel

(Tulane grad working in a solo practice yet poasting on xoxo)

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37142731)



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Date: November 2nd, 2018 2:54 PM
Author: Contagious Theatre



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37145677)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:17 PM
Author: flickering trailer park

I agree with this take.

It's true that it's not rocket science, but the "basic" shit that good bankers can do they can do so fucking fast it will make your head spin.

I suspect the reason many "scholarly" types don't get this is because they don't understand the significant portion of the world that is run by "numbers" people.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138902)



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Date: November 1st, 2018 1:08 PM
Author: flickering trailer park

For as long as investors have more money than they have ideas on how to spend it, there will be men to sell them those ideas.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37138858)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 3:00 AM
Author: Lemon Locus Keepsake Machete

one of the first deals i ever worked on involved selling the residual on an auto ABS deal to PE investors, HFs and a teacher's union in a poor southern state. that's when i learned that some ppl need to make a return, aren't very sophisticated, and will invest in assets they don't understand, not once, but every day for their entire careers. it's a fucked up world.

(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268544)



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Date: November 20th, 2018 3:01 AM
Author: Red Newt Striped Hyena



(http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=4116955&forum_id=2#37268547)