No partner should have this much technology on their desks. If you are doing that much project work that you need enough monitors to land a plane, you are not spending enough time in the marketplace.

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What kind of bullshit comment is this?
You can be in the marketplace and spend your time in front of 2 screens...

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Definitely not just OW. It is a bullshit comment.

One is for WSJ other is for pr0n. Nothing unusual about this setup

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It’s so I can better compose my size 60 font emails

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What were you doing in my office???

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must have have screens than staff...

Gatekeeping at its best

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