When Silence Isn't Golden

Published Thursday, July 01, 2004

The current suit-happy environment has left more than one registered rep yearning for the Cone of Silence, that whimsical invention from the 1960s spy sitcom Get Smart. But like the fictional secret agent Maxwell Smart, reps are likely to find that interpersonal privacy is not so easily ensured — particularly when government agencies are involved. Here's a typical scenario in which a rep might want to use the fabled cone: The rep makes a mistake — writing an order ticket with the wrong symbol or the incorrect number of shares, for instance — and the customer catches the ...

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