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Glenn Jarvis

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
369 total appearances

Appearances Over Time

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Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I got off the plane.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I rang my friend and he said, I can't believe you're here.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I was talking to my boss about you today and there's a job going where I work.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

And I said, where do you work?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

He said, for a company called Enron.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

So basically I arrived on a Tuesday night to Wednesday night and I started work on the Monday.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

But a lot of people, including myself, don't really understand a lot of the things they were trying to do.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

There were things they were trying to do with weather.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

They were trying to set up an online broadband distribution system.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

But, yeah, they had some really what you'd call clever ideas for how to make money.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I was just counting the beans in the finance department.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

I'd get their bank statements every day and I'd enter into the accountancy package where all the money went to and where all the money came from and then at the end of the month I'd have to do...

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

These massive bank reconciliations, which are automated now, but we used to have to do them manually back then.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

A bank controls clerk.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Where were the corporate offices in London?

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

Well, eventually they built their own building up near Buckingham Palace or Victoria Station.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

But when I was there...

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

We had one building on Mill Bank.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

It's kind of across the road from the park next to the House of Lords.

Conversations
Encore: climbing back into life after a schizophrenia diagnosis

And then another building just down around the corner on Horseberry Road next to the MI5 building.