{"id":757,"date":"2014-10-27T19:25:33","date_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:25:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.turneyduff2.dev\/?p=757"},"modified":"2014-10-27T19:25:33","modified_gmt":"2014-10-27T19:25:33","slug":"fake-business-trips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/2014\/10\/27\/fake-business-trips\/","title":{"rendered":"Fake Business Trips…"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I was three years into my career on Wall Street before the acronym F.B.T. had any relevance for me. It stands for Fake Business Trip, and there were two reasons why it didn\u2019t really register: One, I didn\u2019t have a wife or family; two, I wasn\u2019t at a level that required traveling to see clients. I think if I’d suggested to my boss that I needed to go on a business trip, she would have asked me who would be picking up lunch every day before she said \u201cno.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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I was working at Morgan Stanley when I learned this part of the Wall Street rope. It went down like this: I was sitting in Citi (as in Par-tay), our favorite Happy Hour spot, when a senior broker handed me a beer. “I\u2019m taking an F.B.T.,\u201d he said after a sip of his vodka rocks. \u201cBetween my clients and my family, I think I\u2019m going nuts.\u201d I\u2019d met his wife and two young kids and thought they were very nice, but I also knew he had a very hectic schedule. He looked at me quizzically. \u201cYou don\u2019t know what I\u2019m talking about, do you?\u201d he said. I shook my head no. He took another sip of his vodka, then said: \u201cLet me break it down for you.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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Here are the keys to a successful F.B.T:<\/p>\n

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I was three years into my career on Wall Street before the acronym F.B.T. had any relevance for me. It stands for Fake Business Trip, and there were two reasons why it didn\u2019t really register: One, I didn\u2019t have a wife or family; two, I wasn\u2019t at a level that required traveling to see clients. … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":758,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-757","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"post_mailing_queue_ids":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=757"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/757\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/758"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=757"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=757"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/turneyduff.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=757"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}