As the big boss has left for settling in Zurich, the London office has been a little bit chaotic at the moment. The CTO, equity group MD and fixed income group MD had their rotations here as the head(s) of the London office.

My small boss has become more and more relaxed recently, as he began to wear jeans everyday. On the other hand, some of my other team members start to wear ties everyday (probably because they want to impress the bosses.) Now, the CTO has become my big boss and one of the senior associates has become my middle boss.

The new big boss asked me to stop my second project as he asked me to think about the big blueprint, whereas the middle boss gave me a couple of small projects to do, which requires no brain power but time consuming database checks.

The problem about the our current database is huge. Most securities have different identifiers, but some securities may have the same identifiers with different countries of registration. This potentially can cause troubles.
In addition, the data provided by the our data vendor could be wrong at the first place. What's worse? The data written through from the equity of fixed income database to our total fund database can be wrong due to some updates in either of the database.

As there are so many potential errors, one-rule-fit-for-all policy will never work in reality. This caused great difficulty for me to check models using the data from our database. Today I just found a bug that was never been found by any of our clients or any member of our quality control team or any member of our client servicing team. I hope by the time I get back to office tomorrow morning, the bug will be fixed, and hence I can really start to do what I am supposed to do.