Glenn Jarvis
๐ค SpeakerAppearances Over Time
Podcast Appearances
I got off the plane.
I rang my friend and he said, I can't believe you're here.
I was talking to my boss about you today and there's a job going where I work.
And I said, where do you work?
He said, for a company called Enron.
So basically I arrived on a Tuesday night to Wednesday night and I started work on the Monday.
But a lot of people, including myself, don't really understand a lot of the things they were trying to do.
There were things they were trying to do with weather.
They were trying to set up an online broadband distribution system.
But, yeah, they had some really what you'd call clever ideas for how to make money.
I was just counting the beans in the finance department.
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...
These massive bank reconciliations, which are automated now, but we used to have to do them manually back then.
A bank controls clerk.
Where were the corporate offices in London?
Well, eventually they built their own building up near Buckingham Palace or Victoria Station.
But when I was there...
We had one building on Mill Bank.
It's kind of across the road from the park next to the House of Lords.
And then another building just down around the corner on Horseberry Road next to the MI5 building.