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Submitted to Contest #288
It all started with the mandatory insider-trading avoidance training all employees were required to take once a year. My effort was the same as most—just enough to stay off Compliance’s shit list. It occurred to me only later, as the gunmetal grey bus transported me to serve out my twelve-month sentence in a minimum-security prison, that the training was less a deterrent, and more a how-to lesson. Playing the market after overhearing the guys in R&D discussing their as-yet unreleased breakthrough security app probably would have never cr...
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