Lehman Brothers fell 5.2 percent to $16.40 before the official open this morning, and 24 percent this week. Obviously, that's got to hurt, almost as much as the comparisons to Bear Stearns. But while Big Daddy Cayne's preferred method of blowing off steam would've been to blow off smoke (often times setting off the sprinkler system to the extent that employees began keeping extra sets of clothes at the office), I think we all know Dick Fuld's mode of chillaxing these past few days has been less of an herbal remedy than an electronic one.
When Richard Fuld, chief executive of Lehman Brothers Holdings Inc., couldn't control his addiction, he took drastic measures. In October, he had the game BrickBreaker taken off his BlackBerry. "I was playing so much," says Mr. Fuld, who had used it to relax on the plane or in the car. He missed it so much, though he had it reinstalled.
Which of course begs the question, in what order did it happen-- hours of thumb-fracturing BrickBreaker as a means of coping with an LEH pounding, OR a spate of responsibility-shirking 9-5's spent in the handicapped bathroom in an attempt to break 30,000 which led to said assault?
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 10:59AM
Please. While the events at LEH are troubling, to say the least, that BrickBreaker story from the WSJ is at least two years old.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:00AM
Ok fine. 18 months.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:03AM
February 17, 2007. Sounds like around 17 months rather than at least 2 years.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:05AM
jeeeeeeeeeeeeeeez, relax guys, it's Friday!!!
Posted by beentheredonethat , Jul 11, 2008 11:06AM
No matter how stale the story, its just plain stupid.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:08AM
No whats stupid is level 16...fucking wall
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:10AM
someone is a litle sensative when it comes to LEH huh??
Posted by FUNdamental , Jul 11, 2008 11:12AM
Open question - better or worse than jerking off in the handicapped stall? I mean not as gross, but the payoff at the end would be better....and probably much quicker to crank one out I'd imagine?
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:13AM
Was posted by Fuld, in between brickbreaker sessions
Posted by cheesedog , Jul 11, 2008 11:17AM
I prefer the Cayne/Fuld/Vikram combo. I like to smoke a blunt, play some Brickbreaker, then eat some Count Chocula. Ahhh summertime.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:20AM
Fuld's son is no better. I was with him in Middlebury.
it runs in the family.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:31AM
FUNdamental @11:12
Jerking off is only fun if there's KY around.
Remember -- before you beat it you better lube it first. It's a blessing not a curse.
Besides, it is hard for Fuld, or anybody, to jerk off when in the plane with its tiny plane toilets. Unless you're flying the companies G-5
Posted by blndebnker , Jul 11, 2008 11:40AM
Don't hold back, Bess. It's a Friday and these whiny snots want to ruin the kitschy dealbreaker delightfulness of a CEO's videogame addiction. Go back to losing money and not printing it at LEH, clowns.
Posted by girl , Jul 11, 2008 11:47AM
Hey Bess?
I really appreciate your thought leadership on this issue. Seriously, they should effing write up your thought leadershipness on crackberry addicts, i think it would help alot of people.
Posted by girl , Jul 11, 2008 11:54AM
I don't mean to toot my own horn (by which I mean, its my favorite fucking pastime) but you're right, Bess. I've been absurdly on point about this crackberry-Fuld connection. You're wiseness in pointing out my brilliance brings tears to my cold, dead eyes.
ps I love you
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:57AM
Bess + Girl = major wood
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 11:58AM
Wait, does that mean that girl has met with Bess?
And what was that about f*ing with a horn... Do you need help in that area?
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:01PM
Whatever Bess everyone and especially their mother has some sort of substance "abuse" problem...its just how we're all wired. There's really no obvious downside to being a crackberry junkie and if that's how he chooses to release his compulsion, DickFold is in pretty good shape and I'd say this is non-news.
Now if he was jerkin it in the handicapped stall (like FUN is doing right now) or if he likes a giant fist in his ass (like the one in Sam Israel right now) or if he's a dick in the popcorn at the movies type of guy...etc...
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:02PM
He, he, Bess just said that girl had a full hand in her thing.
Love you Bess. Would you marry me? You can bring girl along.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:06PM
"Whatever Bess everyone and especially their mother has some sort of substance "abuse" problem...its just how we're all wired. There's really no obvious downside to being a crackberry junkie and if that's how he chooses to release his compulsion, DickFold is in pretty good shape and I'd say this is non-news."
seriously, are you retarded? read the response at 11:13AM-- NO ONE WAS SAYING THIS WAS NEWS.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:07PM
Did anyone else make a mess on their keyboard?
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:08PM
Girls of Dealbreaker Calender 09'
we'll do the shoot in the valley (LA) at Rocco Siffredi's.
solicitation for angel investors.
and no Carney, you may not dress up as a fireman.
-retail
Posted by girl , Jul 11, 2008 12:12PM
@ Bess,
I concur. If the financial blogospohere were a ho, together we'd superman that dirty ho with our thought leadership on this shit.
We are the best thing since slice bread, peanut butter and jelly, and the Jasian race combined.
Question-- when we have staring contests, do you agree that it's almost kind of pointless because we could both stare into each other's brains for hours on end?
Posted by miami , Jul 11, 2008 12:16PM
Fireman? Carney's dressing up as Bernanke....everyone knows this.
Posted by NSD , Jul 11, 2008 12:16PM
@12:01 - nero played a fiddle, jimmy c played bridge and fuld played his blackberry.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:19PM
Carney,
Aren't you supposed to be sending lunch to someone on Fridays? I think Bess should be personally delivering some Champagne and strawberries (with whip cream) to girl. Followup story on Monday.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:24PM
1,350,000+ here. Then I started dying often when it went balls-to-the-wall so I killed off all of my remaining lives. I wanted to hit that 5M though.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:28PM
Why are all of you toolboxes always drooling over Bess? She has def writing talent, but any photographic evidence that she is appealing to the eye? The way you guys talk you couldn't get laid in a whorehouse with a fistfull of hundreds
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:31PM
@12:28-- in person evidence.
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:33PM
1231, where? I gotta meet this chick
Posted by Johnny , Jul 11, 2008 12:36PM
Bess doesn't show up anywhere in person. Don't you know she uses body doubles for public appearances..?
Posted by HAM05 , Jul 11, 2008 12:39PM
12:33 - dude photographic proof is old news. sorry to out you bess:
http://i187.photobucket.com/albums/x150/seeramaiste1/JessicaRabbit.jpg
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:40PM
@12:28 - thanks for playing along. Interesting analogy - personal experience?
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:41PM
@12:33-- 2A
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 12:48PM
@1240, I ALWAYS get laid in a whorehouse with a fistful of hundreds. Ask your mom or sister, they'll confirm
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 1:06PM
@12:48. Still enjoying 8th grade? Too bad you're the only one who has to pay.
Posted by beentheredonethat , Jul 11, 2008 1:17PM
Fistful? I bring a wheelbarrow....
Posted by guest , Jul 11, 2008 2:53PM
I don't bring money to a whorehouse I print it there