Saw this and thought "a single tear runs down my sweaty cheek".
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Wall Street banks will announce their annual compensation and bonuses starting this month, and forecasts are generally expecting cutbacks across the board though the rewards will still be rich at least by non-1 percenter standards."Obviously this is not a good year for Wall Street compensation and an awful lot of the pressure is going to fall on managing directors," Brad Hintz, research analyst with Sanford C. Bernstein & Co., who said lower compensation -- largely paid from stock -- and volatility in the markets will lead to higher turnover and attrition.
You know that "first world problems" meme? I think we need a "2%'er problems" meme.
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But how will they feed their families?? We need to organize a Goodjer collection ASAP.
For All, Into The Starfield
Clear evidence that Obama's Euro-Kenyan Socialist policies are harming the economy.
The two sides to every story are true and false, not yours and theirs. Facts are not political; lies are. - Deven Green (Mrs. Betty Bowers)
Those greedy, whiny bastards.
\Bathes in energy industry stock
oh my god boooooog
*Legion* wrote:boogle was raised in one, he knows a barn when he sees one.
How can jobs be created if we won't give them money? We are all doomed!
"I'm everybody's hero, I'm Batman's Batman"
Possy Niblet Posse
On Wallstreet this year
the only trickle down near
Paleo's one tear.
Well played.
"I'm everybody's hero, I'm Batman's Batman"
Possy Niblet Posse
ftfy
"With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." - Christopher Columbus
"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Vonnegut
[size=24]SOMEONE PROTECT THE JOB CREATORS[/size]
Perhaps of the banks would actually lend out some of that f*cking money they stole or got from the government they might actually make some money.
But nooooo, they just stuffed their coffers and doubled everyones interest rate.
“When I discovered a new plant, I sat down beside it for a minute or a day, to make its
acquaintance and hear what it had to tell.” -- John Muir
Presumably they'll have to feed them regular Bentleys, rather than solid gold Bentleys.
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10 print "This porridge is too hot."
20 print "This porridge is too cold."
30 ** This porridge is just right **
40 goto 10
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/11/wall-street-workers_n_1199514.html
No fun? Oh man.
"Flow my tears," the fund manager said.
To complete the reference:
Flow, my tears, fall from your springs!
Exiled for ever, let me mourn;
Where night's black bird her sad infamy sings,
There let me live forlorn.
Down vain lights, shine you no more!
No nights are dark enough for those
That in despair their lost fortunes deplore.
Light doth but shame disclose.
Never may my woes be relieved,
Since pity is fled;
And tears and sighs and groans my weary days
Of all joys have deprived.
From the highest spire of contentment
My fortune is thrown;
And fear and grief and pain for my deserts
Are my hopes, since hope is gone.
Hark! you shadows that in darkness dwell,
Learn to contemn light
Happy, happy they that in hell
Feel not the world's despite.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
You bastard, Tanglebones. :)
ClockworkHouse wrote:Yay! My Sony bone is getting tangled!
thrawn82 wrote:Tanglebones is a better man than I, in tears at my desk.
This is what happens when you give so much money to so few people that money itself becomes scarce.
We have reached Peak Income!
NOTE: Not a doodle bug.
I'm sayin'.
Words... are a big deal.
Jill Lapore wrote:Editing is one of the great inventions of civilization.
I suspect to see these people camped out on Wall Street holding signs that say "WE ARE THE 99.5%".
"I would be insulted if I could figure out exactly what it means."
--*Legion*
Just heard a story on NPR the other day that Rolls Royce had a record year last year mostly due to purchases in China and the US despite a global economic meltdown.
So the news that Wall Street bonuses are incrementally smaller than they were last year (but still in the obscenely fcuking huge territory) .... well, let's just say I don't have a lot more than the single tear.
I think Paleocon is right about pretty much everything. -- Mex
Paleocon is entirely right --DanB
I've made my case, Paleocon... and now I am abandoning it, because yours is far more persuasive. --detriot20
Paleocon is a wise man --Taer
I want a gun that shoots bacon too.
The cars I see driving around my office are pretty ridiculous. NOBODY WANTS A CANDY PINK LAMBORGHINI, COMRADES.
"With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want." - Christopher Columbus
"There's only one rule that I know of, babies—God damn it, you've got to be kind." - Vonnegut
Is that a new shade of eyeshadow, Paleo? Fetching!
NOTE: Not a doodle bug.
It's my David Bowie look. Don't judge.
I think Paleocon is right about pretty much everything. -- Mex
Paleocon is entirely right --DanB
I've made my case, Paleocon... and now I am abandoning it, because yours is far more persuasive. --detriot20
Paleocon is a wise man --Taer