I’m running out of reasons to justify working at Goldman Sachs. If they get rid of Blankfein Breakfast Sandwich Sunday, in which employees are compensated for coming in on the weekend to cook the books with a delicious and sacrilegious pork-themed treat– probably because sin tastes so good– I’m done. We have it on a good authority that the powers that be at 85 Broad have just hiked vending machine rates. Items which previously cost 75 cents will now set you back an additional $0.20. This on the heels of a ridiculous cost cutting initiative that saw expensed dinners go from $25 to $20, and the downright ludicrous ban on free soda and water. One employee in particular is so distraught that he told Dealbreaker, “In a way I almost feel a twinge of gratitude that 10% of my departed brethren never had to wake up to a workday full of such cut-rate ignominy.” Sure, it sounds like typical smug confectionery entitlement characteristic of a GS employee which would normally get a “Shut up, Winkelried,” but at this point we truly feel unmitigated sadness.
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First to be sad…
GS needs to merge with C to survive.
Come on … complaining about free soda and vending $ increases. You aren’t getting paid custodial salaries!
You would like some cheese with your WHINE!!!
Hey my pantry doesn’t have soda or chips.
Anybody else get turned on by the sultry green M&M in the commercials?
No? Just me? OK, forget I said anything.
5, boo!
The no soda or bottled water is pretty fucking ridiculous though you have to admit.
5, boo!
yes-there was a time when a 1/4 keg was rolled into the 12th floor kitchenette on the last Friday of the month (sales & trading). There was a time if one worked after 9PM, it was REQUIRED that a limo be taken home beyond the bounds of Manhattan Island (admins). There was a time when the entire Hard Rock (Boston) was closed for the Holiday Party-spare no expense for the food and drink. There was a time when one was chided if the expense account lacked extravagant dinners and drinks for clients. The pendulum has swung…too bad you missed it.
Will they still be allowed to eat crow?
A GS/C merger would be a nightmare all around. C should be broken up and the pieces absorbed by banks that are better managed.
I don’t know what’s going to happen with GS. I think they will likely survive as a smaller, less-profitable version of themselves. But I’m sure they’ll find a way to overcompensate themselves.
Oh poor GS.. Let’s start a pity party!
next they are going to complain that they have to use hand dryer because they removed all the paper towels. ;)
-heidi
Goldman needs to merge with Tyson Foods to survive, Citigroup with Chiquita.
They have Kosher vending machines?
Bacon……shrimp…..keggers…..limos……hard Rock Cafe…….
ITS ALL OVER YOU WHINING LITTLE BOYS
The Party is OVER
still has better comp than this job:
http://newyork.craigslist.org/mnh/acc/919282451.html
@15 if i ever run into you i’ll club you like a baby seal with my big swinging dick
@16 – 2000/month are they for real? my gf makes more and she’s a high school teacher…
@16 – Isn’t collecting unemployment more money/month?
@17 – hey Big Swinging – you just turned into a Tumbling Dickweed, don’t get your cock knocked on the way out!
#16… Are they serious about the pay! Isn’t that what a barista at Starbucks gets paid?
@20 The only thing i need to worry about is that my cock doesnt smudge the wedding picture next to your bed after i’m done ripping through your wife. Now, you’ll have to excuse me. I have a lunch meeting with Cliff Huxtable at the Four Seasons in 20 minutes.
“GS needs to merge with C to survive”
Vikky said no.
GS needs to merge with GM to survive
@#16…
TGFD just read your craigslist link. Are things really that bad on Wall Street? I’m surprised at the $2k/mo pay for the analyst job and at the non-pay intern positions.
The Guy from Delaware
“because sin tastes so good”. I hope she was referring to sausage or I too, will be sad
GS is too jew to collapse
@22 – nice reference. But were you able to get reservations @ Darcia?
28 I’m loosing track: is Darcia good or laughable now?
$20 expensed dinners? That really does blow.
@28 Dorsia? Well that problem is solved by the credit crunch. Here in London there’s hardly any waiting lists left, even Petrus can be booked same day now…
I’m going to crack open a free Perrier right now in honour of the dead homiez.
i feel like red snapper pizza…
I have to go return some video tapes
@22 – You are a piece of work – there are no tough guys at GS – we all know the qualifications for entry to this jackass club – I’d actually love to show up at the Four Seasons to smack you around but we all know ur not going there and Frankly I feel sorry for you.. Deep down you know how weak and insecure you are….
@22 – You are a piece of work – there are no tough guys at GS – we all know the qualifications for entry to this jackass club – I’d actually love to show up at the Four Seasons to smack you around but we all know ur not going there and Frankly I feel sorry for you.. Deep down you know how weak and insecure you are….
@35&36 Go quickly, you might still catch him at the Four Seasons! Look for a guy with slicked back hair, a perfect tan and Oliver’s Peoples glasses. If you want to be sure its him, ask him what he thinks of your business card..
@35&36 (and however many times you post the same asinine comment before my reply hits DB) we have to end apartheid for one. And slow down the nuclear arms race, stop terrorism and world hunger. We have to provide food and shelter for the homeless, and oppose racial discrimination and promote civil rights, while also promoting equal rights for women. We have to encourage a return to traditional moral values. Most importantly, we have to promote general social concern and less materialism in young people.
@38 – Patrick, you ignorant slut. It’s a different world out there, my friend, verrryyyy different world now
@38 watch out, that slowbrained moron from #35/36 has found out who you are. He’ll be waiting for you in the videorental and the drycleaners and he might also be a friend of halberstram.
39/36/35 – you may be the dumbest guy ever to have posted on thsi board. And that is an accomplishment
@16/18 – my gf is a 2nd grade teacher and she makes almost double that (and more per hour than any of us, but we all know that game already).
@19 – Unemployment is only ~$1300/mo.
@16/18 – my gf is a 2nd grade teacher and she makes almost double that (and more per hour than any of us, but we all know that game already).
@19 – Unemployment is only ~$1300/mo.
28, its dorcia.
28, its dorcia.
40 May be too harsh. Not necessarily dumb. Could be he just doesn’t read much popular fiction or see Christian Bale movies.
@ 35/36 – you got got…
Does anyone else here feel that Phil Collins is an artist?
btw, what ever happened to Wall st sequel, ‘money never sleeps?’ guessing that one has been put on the back burner (esp since slick vik stole the tag line!!), but does anyone have any real info?
Sorbet?
@46 Huey Lewis is misunderstood
Isn’t the axing of the free soda at GS old news… I think the vending machines too.
I hope they didn’t do away with the 20% GS employee discount on brown suits at Sears now that they’re just another commercial bank. I’m still waiting for my 2009 calendar for opening a checking account.
Where is the picture of that tanned bloke wearing an orange bow-tie?
i wish i had your problems…babies all of you.
i wish i had your problems…babies all of you.
i wish i had your problems…babies all of you.
i wish i had your problems…babies all of you.