The Daily News today runs the inevitable story on the trickle-down effect of Wall Street bonuses. They interview a BMW salesman, a golf club salesman, an officer of the Bayonne Golf Club, a spokesperson for the city’s Office of Management and Budget, a jewelry saleswoman, a couple of caterers and a bartender. For most, they give the name, age and occupation. But for that bartender, well, apparently there’s more information you need to know. Like her marital status and the fact that she comes with luggage.
Mona Vijolan, 27, of Glendale, Queens, tends bar at Nebraska Beef, a Stone St. steakhouse in the shadow of the Goldman Sachs building. Lately, brokers haven’t blinked at the $63 price when ordering “The Stockbroker,” a hunk of aged prime rib served with a half-pound lobster tail.
“This is the month for bonuses and when the market’s been good, our customers are even more generous than usual,” said Vijolan, who’s married and has a 4-year-old daughter. “This year has been great,” she said, adding that $100 tips are commonplace.
Emphasis added by DealBreaker. Gratuitous reference to the bartenders marital status provided by the News.
Unbelieva-bull spending spree [Daily News]
I find if laughable how every bonus period these type of articles surafce. I would estimate that roughly 1% of wall street could go out and spend their bonus the way this article depicts!
Who cares….. This GS crap is so lame. You ought to get a job w/ the nat’l enquirer.
she’s 27? unbelievabull-S**T.
They provided her marital status and “luggage” (i.e., children) to dissuade GS brokers from hitting on her. Of course, that won’t stop some BSD-wannabes from making asses of themselves and for those guys who can’t or won’t get the message, perhaps a broken nose will encourage them to, um, understand…
The Daily News did her a favor by adding the luggage reference if it dents the feeling of entitlement among some GS-ers. More information than I need to know, yeah, but not more than she needs customers to know.
The News was asked to insert the additional info.