this kind of always-on cross-desk chat is of course rife/everywhere/ubiquitous on the trading/brokerage side of banks. i suppose it fits their fast-changing/hec

this kind of always-on cross-desk chat is of course rife/everywhere/ubiquitous on the trading/brokerage side of banks. i suppose it fits their fast-changing/hectic day rather than the more-focused (?) engineer trades? in my first unix tech support job at a big US bank, some bond trader would yell at us over the squawk box that they needed a new keyboard (because they'd just smashed it with the heavy handsets on their dealerbox/trading turret). no jira back then!