A recently laid off BoA analyst received the following message from her former employer. I don’t know if this sort of thing is common practice, and it’s unclear whether or not the note was serious or just an attempt to crack a joke in the midst of a tough situation (self-deprecating humor about how crappy your bonus are is always good), but let us just say, well-played, Ken Lewis. Made us laugh.
Dear Employee of Bank of America:
Based on your annual earnings, you may be eligible to receive the Earned Income Tax Credit (EITC) from the federal government. The EITC is a refundable federal income tax credit for low income working individuals and families. The EITC has no effect on certain welfare benefits. In most cases, the EITC payments will not be used to determine eligibility for Medicaid, supplemental security income, food stamps, low income housing or most temporary assistance for needy families payments….
Bank of America Personnel Center
Ridiculous!
You expect us to read that post with it wrapping like that around that image!!?
What a sad commentary about how big corps treat people.
chill, dude. seriously.
If i go blind squinting to read all this light grey text can i sue dealbroker?
new site layout is silly. need lots of bess commentary to make up for it
yeah, this new layout is bent. Perhaps I am wrecking some in-house celebrational launch of the new www, but as i said, its bent.
The new format makes the posts seem less funny
Feel feek to sue “dealbroker” that other site sucks anyway.
Feel free to sue “dealbroker” that site sucks
you take that back about dealbroker…
Sorry, but the new layout blows.
a.) I like reading stuff on the right side of the screen
b.) The Times New Roman font is tough to read, italicized Times is impossible. Please go back Arial.
Outside of those two comments, I would be kosher with the new layout.
-Gin&Tonic
agreed. also we are serious folks. we should have a serious font. and it should be BLACK! not pale gray
Above the law still has friendly type. Pity it is as dull as fuck.
The comments are a big part of DB. It’s a tough question, do you want to tag and isolate comments to better keep track of visitors to the site? For the purpose of selling adds it certainly makes sense. Trying to sell clicks is difficult unless you can prove the number of unique visitors, and more important visitors who interact with the content. Of course, a real issue is that the commentary provided by readers of the site is often just as humorous and entertaining to read as the posts themselves. Will this hurt the overall content of the site?
-Stranded.
there is a reason my excel screen is grey, this white background is going to ruin my eyes – is db on the optometry lobbyists’ payroll? if so, I’m expecting a check for new glasses I’m going to need.
I personally read DB for the comments. Like come on, its not like any of the paid contributors add any value.
i agree this new format blows majorly, its almost ruining my 3 day weekend.
I prefer the previous layout. What is with the gray bars on the sides? I feel squeezed. Did the same idiot who overhauled Banker’s Ball call you all up too? Can anybody recommend the ‘next’ DB site? This site has gone AOL on us all. That’s not a good thing.
Get rida the grey, and the italics, that’d be a good start.
Then get rid of all the whiney little bitches, that’d really be the best bet
guest is the new anon
Keep up this layout on your RB contributors may receive an EITC… Seriously, I’m considering setting up a site if this is the competition. Geez.
I propose someone (hopefully DB itself) registers guestisthenewanon.com and mirrors all the content here on a site wiht the old format
Jeez…. these comments… I though we’re all supposed to be flexible, adaptable so that we can thrive in the new world business order.
Seriously… only two problems I see is:
1. Font color needs to be darker
2. Italics need to be killed
Other than that, nice change
gayest website ever after this redesign.
Also, i was robbed in DC. Fucking shittiest city ever.
About the EITC thing, I think that’s just standard operating procedure for the BofA HR dept.
Whose the bastard that snagged the ‘anonymous’ username.
New design is nice. Seems more professional somehow. I hope that doesn’t mean that the content will lose it socially casual attitude and loose moral standards. Only complaint, bring back the supermanish logo. And Muffie.
This is a very standard compliance letter that many companies send out. Everyone in the office of my PE fund got the same email – though I doubt even our admin had incomes low enough to qualify.
Ugh, more posts please.
Boooooooo-urns, on the new layout.
-Ghost of Keith Hahn
Count me among those who don’t like the new design. I agree with the comments about the gray. It’s way too hard to read. Ditto the italics. Moreover, now Dealbreaker looks so much like other blogs out there. It’s a very cookie cutter design. Personally I liked the old format way better. It was distinctive and fun.
I’m not sure why you’re focusing on the design at this point. It’s the content that’s gotten really erratic.
As for the comments, forcing people to register so that they have an identity is going to make reading this blog less fun. There are way too many “guests”. I think that most will be reluctant to register just to post. That’s just normal for most sites. Since the comments seem to be the life flood of this blog, I suspect that this change will really hurt. Just my two cents.
love the site
love the site
the gray is gay. get rid of it.
everywhere!
’nuff said…
Need to have the site content oriented to the right and not the left…
damn so hard to read!!
Thats actually the anyone who’s was employed their for 2010, EITC is earned income tax credit, the feds decided to give not so high income earning family’s like an extra refund amount anywhere from 400 hundred to like 2000 thousand dollars, or sumthing like that, all you really need to do is earn less than a certain amount and have a qualifying child. In other words their just letting you know of another promotion the government has to encourage people to keep pushing out them kids, as if humans in america were an endangered species of some sort.