{"id":141,"date":"2006-02-12T20:52:01","date_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:22:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wokay.in\/wp\/wp\/2006\/02\/12\/structured-products-in-the-ppt-world\/"},"modified":"2006-02-12T20:52:01","modified_gmt":"2006-02-12T15:22:01","slug":"structured-products-in-the-ppt-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/2006\/02\/12\/structured-products-in-the-ppt-world\/","title":{"rendered":"Structured Products in the PPT World"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On <a href=\"http:\/\/skthewimp.livejournal.com\/\">my blog<\/a>, I had recently written about the <a href=\"http:\/\/skthewimp.livejournal.com\/51767.html\">market for minus attendance<\/a>, with the attendance in question being the attendance for company PPTs. I had written about the pricing of PPTs and how some juniors tried to undercut each other in order to make some quick money.<\/p>\n<p>The last couple of days have seen some interesting <i>structured products<\/i> and barters coming into this market. For example, I have been able to buy a couple of -PPTs by paying <a href=\"http:\/\/aadisht.net\/wp\/\">madman aadisht<\/a> in terms of blogposts. I write stupid posts like this one and get him to go for PPTs instead of me! Then, liquor has also entered the market. A friend of mine got a junior to go for him by paying him two swigs of some expensive beer. There is this other junior who takes payments only by way of cigarettes!<\/p>\n<p>I had also mentioned in that blogpost that there doesn&#8217;t seem to be a concept of variable compensation here, compensation varying with the length of the PPT. Two of my friends struck one such contract a few hours ago. Rs. 200 (note the substantial increase) for the first 1 1\/2 hours and Rs. 50 for every additional half hour! Unfortunately for the guy who bought the -PPT, the talk ended in half an hour!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my blog, I had recently written about the market for minus attendance, with the attendance in question being the attendance for company PPTs. I had written about the pricing of PPTs and how some juniors tried to undercut each other in order to make some quick money. The last couple of days have seen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[8,17,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-141","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-and-economics","category-humour","category-mba"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7AOU2-2h","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aadisht.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}