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  1. PENGUIN BOOKS DORK
  2. Contents
  3. 1. DISCOVERY
  4. Under the Sink
  5. AUTHOR’S NOTE
  6. 2. DUFRESNE
  7. Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese’s Diary
  8. 2 April 2006
  9. 4 p.m.
  10. ROBIN WERE GEESE—WIMWI
  11. 3 April 2006
  12. 3 a.m.
  13. 11 a.m.
  14. 2 p.m.
  15. 6 p.m.
  16. 7 p.m.
  17. 10 p.m.
  18. 5 April 2006
  19. 11 a.m.
  20. 2 p.m.
  21. 5 p.m.
  22. 7 p.m.
  23. 6 April 2006
  24. 11 a.m.
  25. 3 p.m.
  26. 7 p.m.
  27. 10 p.m.
  28. 11.24 p.m.
  29. 9 April 2006
  30. 10.23 a.m.
  31. 7 p.m.
  32. 10.55 p.m.
  33. 11.26 p.m.
  34. 10 April 2006
  35. 8 a.m.
  36. 11 April 2006
  37. 11.13 a.m.
  38. 12.15 p.m.
  39. 4.20 p.m.
  40. 6 p.m.
  41. 15 May 2006
  42. 8 p.m.
  43. 11.23 p.m.
  44. 16 May 2006
  45. 7 p.m.
  46. 12.34 a.m.
  47. 17 May 2006
  48. 7.45 a.m.
  49. 7.53 a.m.
  50. 6.15 p.m.
  51. 7 p.m.
  52. 8 p.m.
  53. 8.15 p.m.
  54. 9 p.m.
  55. 9.43 p.m.
  56. 18 May 2006
  57. 10.10 p.m.
  58. 10.34 p.m.
  59. 20 May 2006
  60. 9.46 p.m.
  61. 21 May 2006
  62. 7 p.m.
  63. 22 May 2006
  64. 10.15 p.m.
  65. 23 May 2006
  66. 7 p.m.
  67. 24 May 2006
  68. 8 p.m.
  69. 11 p.m.
  70. 11.23 p.m.
  71. 11.25 p.m.
  72. 25 May 2006
  73. 2 p.m.
  74. 7.43 p.m.
  75. 8.13 p.m.
  76. 9 p.m.
  77. 9.32 p.m.
  78. 26 May 2006
  79. 8.30 p.m.
  80. 27 May 2006
  81. 7.23 p.m.
  82. 9.15 p.m.
  83. 28 May 2006
  84. 6.45 p.m.
  85. 29 May 2006
  86. 11 p.m.
  87. 4 June 2006
  88. 7.15 p.m.
  89. 9.20 p.m.
  90. 5 June 2006
  91. 7.13 p.m.
  92. 3. PANCHATANTRA
  93. 11 August 2006
  94. 11.23 p.m.
  95. 3 a.m.
  96. 3.32 a.m.
  97. 4.20 a.m.
  98. 12 August 2006
  99. 9.20 p.m.
  100. 13 August 2006
  101. 8.25 a.m.
  102. 18 August 2006
  103. 8.50 p.m.
  104. 24 August 2006
  105. 11.12 p.m.
  106. ANALYSIS
  107. PRESENTATION
  108. CLIENT RELATIONSHIP
  109. LEADERSHIP
  110. SUSTAINABLE PROJECT EXECUTION AND DIVERSIFIABILITY
  111. OVERALL
  112. 26 August 2006
  113. 7.38 p.m.
  114. 11.45 p.m.
  115. 27 August 2006
  116. 8.30 p.m.
  117. 28 August 2006
  118. 9.10 p.m.
  119. 11 p.m.
  120. 11.20 p.m.
  121. 3 September 2006
  122. 7 p.m.
  123. 4 September 2006
  124. 8.07 p.m.
  125. 10.20 p.m.
  126. 5 September 2006
  127. 11.09 p.m.
  128. 8 September 2006
  129. 1.02 a.m.
  130. 11 September 2006
  131. 8.02 p.m.
  132. 13 September 2006
  133. 2.16 a.m.
  134. 14 September 2006
  135. 10.35 p.m.
  136. 17 September 2006
  137. 12.14 a.m.
  138. 19 September 2006
  139. 11.15 a.m.
  140. 30 September 2006
  141. 10.30 p.m.
  142. 11.02 p.m.
  143. 4. EOQ
  144. 12 November 2006
  145. 8.20 p.m.
  146. 13 November 2006
  147. 10.23 p.m.
  148. 12.15 a.m.
  149. 14 November 2006
  150. 11.23 p.m.
  151. 12.30 a.m.
  152. 15 November 2006
  153. 8 p.m.
  154. 16 November 2006
  155. 7.40 p.m.
  156. 9 p.m.
  157. 17 November 2006
  158. 8.22 p.m.
  159. 20 November 2006
  160. 7.56 p.m.
  161. 10.20 p.m.
  162. 1 a.m.
  163. 22 November 2006
  164. 9.13 p.m.
  165. 26 November 2006
  166. 10.12 p.m.
  167. 12.05 a.m.
  168. 1.23 a.m.
  169. 27 November 2006
  170. 11.23 p.m.
  171. 12.15 a.m.
  172. 28 November 2006
  173. 9.36 p.m.
  174. 11.20 p.m.
  175. 29 November 2006
  176. 8.32 p.m.
  177. 30 November 2006
  178. 10.03 p.m.
  179. 5. ASSOCIATE???
  180. 11 December 2006
  181. 7.20 p.m.
  182. 13 December 2006
  183. 2.20 a.m.
  184. 15 December 2006
  185. 10.10 p.m.
  186. 20 December 2006
  187. 11.23 p.m.
  188. 22 December 2006
  189. 9.03 p.m.
  190. 24 December 2006
  191. 11.23 p.m.
  192. 3 January 2007
  193. 8.43 p.m.
  194. 4 January 2007
  195. 10.03 p.m.
  196. 3.40 a.m.
  197. 6 January 2007
  198. 2.23 a.m.
  199. 4.15 a.m.
  200. 8 a.m.
  201. 9.14 p.m.
  202. 7 January 2007
  203. 8.15 a.m.
  204. 2.23 p.m.
  205. 10.23 p.m.
  206. 8 January 2007
  207. 11.54 p.m.
  208. 10 January 2007
  209. 11.07 p.m.
  210. 11 January 2007
  211. 12.35 a.m.
  212. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

I don’t get it. Can’t sleep. Phone keeps beeping. The Lederman party at office got over really late. I am still pissed about what happened yesterday. Will talk about it later.

Wonder if Yetch and Rajni got my voicemail …

8 a.m.

Okay. For some weird reason I just got a call and it played back the voicemail I left for Yetch and Rajni.

Maybe some form of confirmation message from the voicemail system. At Dufresne all our mobile phones are part of the internal voicemail system too.

Man … I sound pissed in the voicemail.

Wait…

What the heck! I just got another two of those weird text messages from the Singapore and Hong Kong offices.

What in God’s name is going on in Dufresne?

9.14 p.m.

I’ve completely fucked things up. SHIT! SHIT! SHIT!

Now that I’ve just destroyed my chances of ever getting a job again anywhere in the world I might as well write down what happened in the last few hours of Robin ‘Einstein’ Varghese’s professional life.

Yesterday, I went to office feeling pumped about the Lederman deal. The fact that I had helped Dufresne win a project really helped me to forget the terrible things that had happened at the meeting with all the partners. When I reached office it was like everyone was high on drugs. The office was jubilant about Lederman. People were going around giving high-fives. Some of the partners were even chilling around, cracking jokes with associates and analysts. Anandakumari was busy arranging catering and decorations for the party that Prasad was organizing for the entire office in the conference room. It was really like walking into a carnival. And everyone, for once, seemed to have forgotten that I had almost lost my job.

At one point Prasad called me and told me that Lederman was a success for the entire company globally and that I should now please do nothing to screw the whole thing up.

Later in the evening Prasad told everyone to assemble in the big conference room for the live video feed from Blossom and the team in the Lederman world headquarters. As we all stood around with huge smiles on our faces, Blossom said that he was very happy to be associated with Dufresne and that he had heard very good things about the firm from other clients, other consultants and people in our firm. He singled me out in the audience and said it had been a pleasure interacting with me in the past. I beamed with pride.

He then briefed both teams on the challenges that lay ahead and also said that he was hoping to engage at least ten consultants from Dufresne on an array of strategy projects including consumer banking, corporate banking, private equity, investment banking and trading. He said that it would be a superb project for Dufresne as all the people associated would get a crash course in banking. He cracked a joke about how Dufresne might lose all ten consultants to private equity jobs later. We all laughed except Jenson who was taking notes.