Today at Citigroup, in accordance with Vikram's promise to shareholders that the company will begin taking steps toward realizing the enormous potential of the C, a member of the fixed income group was paid 3 grand to execute "the reverse bowl cut," according to sources. To claim the money, he must sport the haircut proudly on the trading floor for a full calendar week. We're told the money is being donated to charity.
Pictures after the jump.
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 5:35PM
A Citi middle office guy donating money to charity? His job was probably on the line... Reverse bowl or you're out!
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 5:52PM
probably originally intended to keep the money; but once he became famous for this, realized he had to do so to aviod ridicule.
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 6:34PM
Anyone know if this was on the taxable FI floor or munis?
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 6:48PM
389G 4th Floor, around 2pm
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 6:49PM
Sorry Typo 390G
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 7:16PM
That guy is very handsome! Does he have a girlfriend?
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 9:20PM
yep sure does, a real gem too!
Posted by guest , May 09, 2008 11:16PM
looks like dr. cox
Posted by guest , May 10, 2008 7:01PM
Who are these jackasses? I can tell you with certainity this crap is not tolerated at GS or LEH. Think there might be connection between this behavior and performance???
Posted by guest , May 10, 2008 8:42PM
Stuff like that is done all the time at MER & WB. Yes, WB has trading floors...
Posted by guest , May 12, 2008 7:49AM
Warner Bros the cartoon company has trading floors...?
Posted by guest , May 12, 2008 9:09AM
Whah! GS and LEH don't tolerate this nonsense! Whah! Way to lump Lehman and GS together. I forgot Lehman outperformed the rest of the street... If you don't appreciate a good spoof dopey, probably want to stop visiting the site.
Posted by guest , May 12, 2008 10:46AM
"I can tell you with certainity this crap is not tolerated at GS or LEH."
I didnt know HR visits this site as well.
Posted by guest , May 12, 2008 10:53AM
GS story from late-80s: two traders, one M one F. Both do triathalongs. M makes a bet with the F re finish time of next weekends tri. Stakes: fancy racing bike (whatever 80s equivalent was of a Litespeed, Serotta - maybe $2,600 at the time) and the winner gets to hoist it on top of their trading station for the day. F won. M delivered the bike, F displayed it for all to see. HR didn't fire anybody. Have things really changed?