• 12 Sep 2008 at 3:38 PM

Flying The Fraternal Skies

Lehman Bank of America.jpgOur friends over at Cityfile point out that when if Bank of America buys Lehman Brothers they’ll also get a pretty sweet jet.
“[The] Bombardier BD-700 Global Express is super-sweet ride. And it’s the same exact model that Oprah has,” Ciytfile reports.

What You’ll Get With Your Lehman Brothers Purchase
[Cityfile]

Comments (46)

  1. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:44 PM

    Shit just got pink slipped at Leh. I was on my way out to meet a buddy at 1585 and the MD called me into the conference room.
    SHIT I feel horrible cuz im not the only one :(
    drinks are on my 1585 buddy tonight.

  2. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:45 PM

    BankOfBrothers.com

  3. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM

    @1– what was the severance like?

  4. Posted by bank_teller | September 12, 2008 at 3:46 PM

    put that shit on ebay

  5. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:48 PM

    @3
    Box of I cant believe it’s not butter

  6. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM

    @5,
    That was for top bucket too!!

  7. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:49 PM

    @1- that sucks. sorry to hear that.

  8. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:53 PM

    @1 This is brunette baller. 5″8 36 double D. If you need some loove, I’ll make yourr toes tingle.

  9. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:55 PM

    Supermodel on Craigslist Personals:
    http://newyork.craigslist.org/brk/w4m/835057632.html

  10. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:56 PM

    Heard that Dick Fuld’s next job will be serving drinks onboard to the next owner of the plane.

  11. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM

    That shit looks like an Eastern Airlines jet. Sell that shit on Ebay indeed.

  12. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:57 PM

    o blonde I understand now. excel. that’s the connection. it’s all very subliminal.
    ~guessed

  13. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 3:58 PM

    @9– supermodel is a dumbass:
    under musts:
    “-Ivy League education desirable, but Amherst, *UPenn*, Colgate, Vassar, Georgetown etc. acceptable “

  14. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:02 PM

    @9
    Well, why don’t you just email the woman and tell her you are her dream boat?
    The advertiser reminds me of Edna(emailed joke):
    The Love Story of Ralph and Edna:
    Just because someone doesn’t love you the way you want them to, doesn’t mean they don’t love you with all they have. Ralph and Edna were both patients in a mental hospital. One day while they were walking past the hospital swimming pool. Ralph suddenly jumped into the deep end. He sank to the bottom of the pool and stayed there.
    Edna promptly jumped in to save him. She swam to the bottom and pulled him out. When the Head Nurse Director became aware of Edna’s heroic act she immediately ordered her to be discharged from the hospital, as she now considered her to be mentally stable.
    When she went to tell Edna the news she said, ‘Edna, I have good news and bad news. The good news is you’re be ing discharged, since you were able to rationally respond to a crisis by jumping in and saving the life of the person you love. I have concluded that your act displays sound mindedness. The bad news is, Ralph hung himself in the bathroom with his bathrobe belt right after you saved him. I am so sorry, but he’s dead.’
    Edna replied, ‘He didn’t hang himself, I put him there to dry. How soon can I go home?’
    Happy Mental Health Day!
    You can do your bit by remembering to send this email to all of your unstable friends.
    Have a great day!!

  15. Posted by bank_teller | September 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    @13, no she’s actually got that one right.

  16. Posted by diablo | September 12, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    Happens that Bank of America owns 2 of those babies already. This one will go on Ebay.

  17. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:05 PM

    better idea– don’t put it on ebay, but say you did. palin will be flattered by the imitation!

  18. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM

    better idea– don’t put it on ebay, but say you did. palin will be flattered by the imitation!

  19. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:07 PM

    @bank_teller: penn is an ivy league school, and if you were making a joke about it being a shitty ivy, shouldn’t cornell win that prize?

  20. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    @9 – One of the few constants in an ever-changing universe is that single women over 30 who love cats are to be avoided at all costs regardless of how good looking they may be. Emotional basket cases…

  21. Posted by JorgeCad | September 12, 2008 at 4:11 PM

    LEH collapse is entirely due to it’s arrogant boss. Dick Fuld simply overstated his self-worth and that of an independant I-Bank. I am told, by an RBC guy who eye-balled their book, that he was very simply deluded.
    Do hope things work out for all my friends over at LEH.

  22. Posted by whatelseisgoingon | September 12, 2008 at 4:14 PM

    @1 after you got canned, you came to DB to post about it?
    I would have hit the street running to the closest gentlemen’s club

  23. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:15 PM

    @9 – One of the few rules that has withstood the test of time is to stay clear of single women over 30 who love cats regardless of how good looking they. Emotional basket cases…

  24. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:16 PM

    No federal money for a Lehman deal? LEHM needs to merge with Mayo and Sham-wow in order to survive.

  25. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:17 PM

    @9
    this is a MAN shes talking about right?

  26. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:18 PM

    19 I’ve heard that before. But usually from someone who went to Penn.

  27. Posted by whatelseisgoingon | September 12, 2008 at 4:19 PM

    @19… stop being an idiot… the chick says she wants someone that went to an ivy league school… BUT UPenn would be ok instead…

  28. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:23 PM

    @ 20 there was no need to repeat: we all know it’s true.
    dogs too, these days.
    And birds at any age.

  29. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:24 PM

    @9 Who says this nutcase is a super model, anyway? She certainly does not.

  30. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:25 PM

    @20 and 28
    and candles. Candles are the new cats.

  31. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:26 PM

    An “assistant” chick, over 40, sent out amusing pictures of her cat’s, across the whole email system along with some stupid joke (like #14). It ended with “Have a great day!!”.
    I went to her boss and argued for her dismissal along with most of the office.
    I work in this industry so i never have to hear “have a great day!!” – it makes me want to punch the speaker of this utterly stupid, devoid of meaning, phrase!!

  32. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:28 PM

    @31
    You must work at Leh
    tough luck man

  33. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM

    @31
    You must work at Leh
    tough luck man
    HAVE A GREAT DAY

  34. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:29 PM

    @31
    You must work at Leh
    tough luck man
    HAVE A GREAT DAY

  35. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM

    31 Must have required a lot of courage to do that. You sound like a very special individual. Your firm is very lucky to have you.

  36. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:30 PM
  37. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:36 PM

    Ya know, when someone says “have a nice day” I reply “I have other plans”

  38. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:38 PM

    @38
    Alcohol?

  39. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:45 PM

    Big time

  40. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 4:47 PM

    SHORT SENDERS OF FIRM WIDE EMAILS (this is taken from longorshortcapital.com)
    Every firm has an alias that represents everyone of the firm — you send an intra-office email to this address and everyone in the firm gets it. Every office also has an amazing amount of people who think it’s a good idea EVER to send a non-work related email to the entire firm:
    Hey all:
    I’m registering for the Save Hot Boobs from Cancer Strip-off for Charity and anyone sponsoring me would be greatly appreciated! I get paid for every hot boob I am able to hit with a nerf gun and I have been training hard for months. I think I can raise a lot of money for charity if you can only spare some money. Especially you, Bill, I saw your bonus and it was enough to buy a vacation home in northern Spain, so I think you can spare a few bucks for hot boobs.
    Signed,
    Herman Resourcier[ed note: this signature would be in size 15 of Scripty Font San-Serif and probably in light blue hue]
    or
    Found a cubic zirconium earring on floor 48, if yours please contact:
    Irina Techzocova ext 10007
    If not please ignore this email I sent to everyone including the managing partner.
    This has astounded me since the very first day of my professional life. In firms ranging from 50 to 1000+ employees, I have received hundreds of firm-wide emails containing attempts to sell tickets to a Christina Aguilera concert, messages about lost $5-10 value items, assorted solicitations for ineffectual charities, accidental pornographic emails, and invitations to parties. This does not even count the incessant HR and IT notices that have been on minutiae so small that they had no need to be sent to the whole firm, yet were sent anyways so that those respective departments could maintain the theater that they are not cipher-ladens pools of mediocrity.
    Recommendation: Short anyone who think it’s a good idea to send a non-work related firm-wide email in a 100+ person firm. They will never achieve above average returns because they have negative common sense.
    Here is an easy to follow guide on when you should send a non-work related firm-wide email:
    Never or
    Only with the explicit direction and approval of someone who is your boss’s boss.
    ps – don’t work for leh and not a man!

  41. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 6:02 PM

    That plane, coincidentally, looks like the one that Lb purchased for Df’s use circa October of 2001. This is NOT a joke.

  42. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 6:32 PM

    Too long, read it.

  43. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 7:59 PM

    31: You argued for the dismissal of most of the office?

  44. Posted by guest | September 12, 2008 at 11:34 PM

    @42 & @Carney:
    Looked up tail #N725LB (taken from Cityfile photo) on FlightAware.com:
    GX HOLDINGS LLC (OXFORD CT)
    This flight is not available for tracking per request from the owner/operator
    Damn privacy laws…. I wonder who or what GX is…

  45. Posted by guest | September 13, 2008 at 1:41 AM

    @45: The plane is a Global eXpress.

  46. Posted by guest | September 13, 2008 at 8:41 AM

    Yeah, Df ordered the purchase of plane for the ‘firm’ in the under-the-radar period following Sept 11…seem to recall that it was available for shopping trips, vacas., etc. Nothing new.

Leave a comment

You can log in with your account or comment as a guest below.