The mood at Lehman today is a mix of bewilderment, depression and rebelliousness. The firm continues to be buffeted by rumors that parts of the business will be purchased by Barclays, while employees wonder about things like severance, benefits and whether they’ll even get paid this week. Many plan to wear jeans tomorrow. Still confined to fantasy is one employee’s idea of a Lehman riot, with bankers and traders burning cars in Times Square.
On one floor, employees have built what they are calling “a shrine to our intrepid leaders.” It consists of pictures of Hank Paulson and Dick Fuld, both pierced by push pins. Hank has had his eyes gouged out, and his brain run through. Dick has one eye gouged and a pin through his heart.
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If they don’t look out they are going to get fired.
surely there’s a corollary to “hell hath no fury like a woman scorned” to girlish white collar folk.
These pretzels are making me thirdsy.
what did Paulson do? Fail to use govt funds for a bailout? Yet another occasion where that rugged Wall St individualism goes right out the window when it impacts you.
wearing jeans to work. Way to rebel. Good thing you people weren’t around for the Vietnam war.
@ 4 never heard of “rugged wall street individualism.” nobody’s gullible enough to buy such a concept.
excepting obamabots.
@ 5. yeah. if it were the Boston Tea Party, they’d demand milk instead of lemon.
A couple of push pins on their douche bag CEO and The Fed chairman in some associates cube and that’s a shrine? Geez give me a freakin’ break…
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How about, “Hell hath no fury, like an act of retribution engendered by former Lehman personnel victimized by corporate malfeasance?”
That has a nice ring to it.
@ 11. nah. “Hell hath no fury like a spoiled corporate cog denied an entitlement.”
I’m having a hard time believing this is actually in someone’s cubicle here at 745 7th. Can you imagine someone putting something so lame up for anyone to see – here at Lehman? As opposed to, say, putting it up in any cubicle in any other building in the City, snapping a picture and sending at it DB as a “tip?”
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sons of bitches go to hell, hope they get nuthing!
Hell hath no fury as a natural gas trader who wasn’t invited to a Shell Oil party with the MMS chicks.
Lehman Employees = Enron Employees = $000
Lehman Employees = Enron Employees = $000
Any layed off Lehman chicks looking for comfort sex tonight? Preferably out of college analysts, good looking, sales chicks preferred over banker chicks.
I was told I’d have better luck on this board than on Craiglist this week. Remember girls, comfort sex is good and no commitment.
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Too old, didn’t read.
Are things so bad that people are looking for booty calls from dealbreaker?
I can tell by the texture covering the cubicle it’s LEH. Looks exactly like the cubicles at 1301 6th Ave building. I agree it is not at 745. That is not to mean that people should not be encourage to pin thru DICK Fuld’s snout and body parts on their walls. After all that’s a one hell of a DICK that fucked 25,000 employees and unknown number of related people single dickedly.
Lehman employee.
@22- youre no longer a Lehman employee. Get used to it. Add ex- before your title.
I think Lehman deserved it purely based on the ugliness of their building.
6 True. McCain people talk a good game but when it comes down to it are really all for being helped.
@22, it’s the same texture we’ve got in 745 also…
@22 and @25 Ahhhh yes. The patented Lehman cubicle txture is indeed the smoking gun
@23. I’m still a Lehman employee until I’m notified otherwise or resign. I will do the 2nd as I already have an offer. Rumor is for now they are keeping some if not all of NY employees.
I’ve never seen the same texture elsewhere. Given the pic content it is highly likely it’s at LEH. Does anyone know if Dick Fuld shows up at 745 these days? I guess he gets whisked in plain looking car with tinted windows to avoid lynching.
and he was all “we’re not a storage company, we’re a moving company…..”
We need a high resolution shot of a square inch of that cubicle fabric, NOW
who will play Fuld when the movie comes out?
John Turturro (sic) is ugly enough to play Fuld.
@ 8, not the Fed chairman, sowwy.
Christopher Lloyd.
Sarah Palin
Yeah … that fabric is patented alright. BSC had the same, as does MS, Bloomberg, and any number of companies.
Can I sell you a bridge to nowhere?
We have seen inconsistency in bailout in the past week. It doesn’t seem like Fed knows what it’s doing. Stop free market from short selling may have strong negative effect down the road. Adding jawdropping price tag to tax payers isn’t fair. The plan is very likely proposed with investment banking top dogs’ own interests at heart, but at expense of tax payers
How convenient that after a week orchestrated by Paulson, only Goldman and Morgan remain intact. Guess Morgan owes its fate to the fact that it would’ve have just been too obvious if Goldman was the sole survivor. It pays to have friends in the right places!