• 08 Sep 2008 at 3:56 PM

Vikram Pandit Mistakenly Given Credit For Joke Of A Tagline

By Bess Levin

I don’t know Citi’s Chief Administrative Officer Don Callahan very well and don’t think I want to. Those intimately familiar with the Don might take issue with this and argue that he’s a good guy but would a good guy perpetrate the following outrageous offense on elfin ball of love Vikram Pandit? I think not. In Financial Week profile today on the hot new trend of appointing CAOs on Wall Street, whose job it is to “guide their companies through some very challenging times,” Callahan relays a story about road tripping it with Count Vikula to raise capital. We were more than happy to hear about Vickle’s penchant to for raiding the mini bar for tiny Toblerones, wearing footie pajamas, and knocking on the door pretending to be a full-service housekeeper. We were not happy to read this bald-faced lie:

Amid all the traveling, “there were no weekends for us and there were very few nights,” Mr. Callahan said. “It was on that first trip that Vikram came up with the new tagline “Citi never sleeps.”

Excuse my language, but what the fuck? He may have been the bearer of bad news but Vikram Pandit DID NOT come up with that punch line of a motto. I can’t speak for Callahan’s boss but this seems like grounds for a firing (which would probably help more than a ban on color copies).
Hail to the Chief Administrator [FN]

Comments (16)

  1. 1
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:02 PM

    First bitches!
    Im on fire today.
    SPODE

  2. 2
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    shit spode you fuck you beat me to the first post

  3. 3
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:03 PM

    Too long, didn’t read.

  4. 4
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:06 PM

    1-3: shut the fuck up and stop ruining DB. Go to TMZ.

  5. 5
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:08 PM

    This whole f’n story has to be a joke… a guy named Callahan goes on a road trip to raise capital? Doesn’t that sound familiar? Oh yeah, its a ripoff of Chris Farley and David Spade’s “Tommy Boy”!!!

  6. 6
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM

    @5– see the link before the jump

  7. 7
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:10 PM

    @5
    That’s David Spode. Not Spade.
    WW

  8. 8
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:13 PM

    CAtO and the Green Hornet? Could be great in syndicate.

  9. 9
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:23 PM

    wait til you see my huemp.
    oops, wrong cato.

  10. 10
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:23 PM

    Cato Kaelin? Is that you

  11. 11
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:28 PM

    Hey @ 4 Shut up. You cry all the time bitch. You’re just jealous you weren’t first. Spode, Mayo, and Shamwow rule!

  12. 12
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:31 PM

    Hmm, pretending to be a full-service housekeeper? Genius! Just the type of hijinks to put in my blog to win over the DB crowd…
    -Mordechai

  13. 13
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:40 PM

    is it shamwow! or sham-wow!?

  14. 14
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:43 PM

    @11
    Why do you fail to recognize my efforts each and every time? My TLDR placements are MONEY each time. I put the fake spongey baseball on that tee with the line tied to it and give it a nice whack and you just go out touting Shamwow. Mayo can’t make that ball spin 4 times.
    Weary Willie can.

  15. 15
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:45 PM

    @13
    I think that depends on the emphasis. Cleanup vs. hoax.

  16. 16
    Posted by guest | September 8, 2008 at 4:56 PM

    trolls are ruining DB.

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