Barclehs Not Wasting Any Time
Posted by Bess Levin, Sep 23, 2008, 10:31am
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Posted by Anal_yst, Sep 23, 2008 10:38AM
true mastery of the Sign takes focus and time, young padawon...
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Posted by StupidEquityGuy, Sep 23, 2008 10:39AM
Is this why Elmer Fuld is hiding?
http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/world/asia/article4810644.ece
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 10:45AM
The British are coming! We know they're just here to use our dentists. I always wondered why England didn't have people trained in the dental arts.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 10:49AM
@3 no
Dick fuld would 'crush' the employees like he did the shorts
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 10:55AM
@4....HAHAHAAH!
Bess, did mini-Kanye hit on you? Yo, gimme those digits girl!
Also, Bess you should've bought big white some Mikey D's fries for putting him in the pic that is posted here to be mocked by all!
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Posted by a dead horse, Sep 23, 2008 10:57AM
Wonder if the Charles Tyrwhitt store is going to become an Old Navy...
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:00AM
Oh, that's a nice garish shade of blue.They'll be selling discount hi-fi equipment at ground level before we ever get another public sighting of Dick Fuld.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:01AM
I agree it looks cool but ouch shouldn't they wait for the sting to subside?
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:04AM
Excellent. Good to see a British bank lassoo a failed cowboy bank.
Cucumber sandwich anyone?
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:07AM
Should have gone for Barclays Brothers when they had the chance
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:07AM
such displays of ostentatiousness are so [clenches teeth]....ostentatious.[unclenches teeth}. This is NOT your father's barclays [teeth conspicuously un-clenched].
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:08AM
@ 16, sod off, swampy.
the cowboys have been kicking your prim, confused asses for two centuries.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:11AM
Each morning everyone on the trading floor will be required to stand for God Save the Queen and all trading will be suspended at 2:30 for a spot of tea.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:12AM
# 5
"The British are coming! We know they're just here to use our dentists. I always wondered why England didn't have people trained in the dental arts. "
True story, friend of mine in a meeting with Edson Mitchell at DB in London about 10 Years ago. Edson trips, falls forward against doorway and chips his tooth. Yells to his assistant. Call my denstis in NY and then get me on the Concorde.
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Posted by blndebnker, Sep 23, 2008 11:15AM
Seriously. That's just mean. At least JPM waited a good two months before putting its name on 383 Madison.
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Posted by blndebnker, Sep 23, 2008 11:21AM
Okay off topic but can someone explain the "pwned" thing to me? How did that start?
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:26AM
looks stupid with the map and lehman brothers name above it
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Posted by GinNTonic, Sep 23, 2008 11:32AM
Either the greatest photoshop job in the world or the British are just of d*cks
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:32AM
24 Nice thing about electronic signs, is that you can get some geek to change em in five minutes. At 383 Mad you had to line up expensive union labor to scrape off the Bear and reapply JPM. Thats prob why it took a few mos.
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Posted by blndebnker, Sep 23, 2008 11:35AM
@29 - Yeah I don't think that's quite it. There def was a big push at JPM to "spare the feelings" of the Bear employees. Everyone was walking on eggshells.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:36AM
31 I guess now no one cares because there are very few places for people to walk, if they decide to leave.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:39AM
I think there's at least 50 more banks and 500 hedge funds that will go down from here. After that I believe we're done with this bubble, should take about 2 years.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:44AM
funny thing is, this building was originally designed for JP Morgan for JP Morgan.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:45AM
@21
A little Johnny Rotten and Co. in the A.M. with some Earl Grey in the P.M. never hurt anyone.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 11:46AM
Have you guys seen Barclays Tier 1 ratio? If things get any worse out there, they're going to be changing the signs on the front again.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 12:16PM
@37, you're right, Im sure Diamond went into this all willy nilly. He paid nothing for it, it was a brilliant move.
I for one will definitely be stopping in for a vegamite sandwich and a pint. Seves you right Dick Fuld, karma is comin your way my man.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 12:37PM
Hmm these comments don't exactly explode the myth that the Americans are an insular people. I wonder what you'll be like when the yellow people come?
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 12:54PM
Brits are stupid turds. Heard there's some jobs at JP Marlin....paying in Zimbabwe dollars so you don't get screwed.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 12:56PM
@ 40
go fuck your leftist, anti-American, ignorant, spineless, mealy mouthed self.
When you address an American, you'd best acknowledge who fucking blessings your enjoying.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 1:00PM
If they really thought the sign through they should have had the words 'lehman brothers' burst into flames and have the barclays logo emerge like a phoenix from the ashes. Buff. Maybe I'll go into marketing. *shudder*
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 1:13PM
Word is that Barclays is honoring all summer offers from Lehman. Bob Diamond made the announcement yesterday on a company-wide town hall meeting conference call. For everyone w/ offers don't fall for the gun-to-head strategy that Citi and others are trying to pull. F'em.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 1:14PM
Word is that Barclays is honoring all summer offers from Lehman. Bob Diamond made the announcement yesterday on a company-wide town hall meeting conference call. For everyone w/ offers don't fall for the gun-to-head strategy that Citi and others are trying to pull. F'em.
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Posted by StupidEquityGuy, Sep 23, 2008 1:16PM
Ouch, C is taking a serious spanking out of the blue...
~SEG
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 2:21PM
BarCap isnt really as British as you guys make it out. Diamond & Del Messier are Americans, Ricci, the COO now in as acting CEO of old LB is an American.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 5:15PM
@52 of course Barcap is British - the fact Bob Diamond is American is of little consequence.
Following your oddball logic I suppose California is Austrian??!!
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 5:19PM
I find the anti-British sentiment displayed above particularly ridiculous, especially as Barclays are safeguarding 10,000 American jobs!
Perhaps @42, @43 would rather the Chinese had it?
Thought not.
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 7:20PM
geez..could have got someone to take down the Lehmen Brothers sign, makes the place look cheap
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 7:42PM
My point is that entire leadership of Bar Cap is overwhelmingly american. If Cali had a governor and an enitre cabinet from austria, that would make it fairly austrian.
Also the whole point of Bar Cap from 97 on was to create an American style organization and culture in what had been a dusty brit bank
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 8:51PM
@54 : Nearly everyone in the US office of Barclays Capital is American.
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Posted by SlashAndBurn, Sep 23, 2008 11:31PM
Where are the pics of 745 from this morning?
Was going to save them for posterity, but the latest one that replaced them sucks.
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Posted by SlashAndBurn, Sep 23, 2008 11:39PM
The NY Post has photos up:
http://www.nypost.com/photos/galleries/news/regionalnews/pp_20080923_barclays/photo01.htm
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Posted by guest, Sep 23, 2008 10:36AM
actually looks pretty cool