Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 10:52AM

Can I get a standing ovation for John mack for driving the company into the ground upon his triumphant return?? Didn't think so

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 10:54AM

Pics or BAN

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 10:55AM

@1, I don't know who you are, or what age you are - but maybe on the "Layoffs Watch" posts, where people are losing their jobs and have a long frustrating search ahead of them - you can do something more than just announce how fast you can type "first" and hit "Post Comment".

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 10:57AM

@4:

yeah, like post pics of said HR flack...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 10:59AM

@4, must work at MS

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:00AM

Chicago as well. CME

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:02AM

I know the HR chick - decent broad but her legs can look a little thick at times. More cushin'...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:03AM

Hmm weren't we just talking about what a shit firm Oppenheimer is in another thread? Wonder what Meredith Whitney has to say on this subject matter:

WSJ(11/19) State Says Executives Sold Before Mart Froze

Tuesday, November 18, 2008 7:31:54 PM
Provided by: Dow Jones
(From THE WALL STREET JOURNAL)

By Jennifer Levitz

Massachusetts' top securities regulator accused executives of a New York unit of Oppenheimer Holdings Inc. with "unloading" $3 million of their personal holdings in auction-rate securities in the two weeks before the market for the investments imploded in February.

The state's civil-fraud complaint seeks to fine the Canadian company's money manager, Oppenheimer & Co., and three of the unit's officials, including the chief executive officer and chairman, Albert Lowenthal, and his son, Robert, a senior managing director. The complaint also names two other executives who sold auction-rate securities but doesn't seek fines against them.

Massachusetts Secretary of State William Galvin, in an interview, said the executives "betrayed the trust of their clients." He alleged they kept their clients "in the dark, even as they, themselves, got out of that tottering market."

In a statement, Oppenheimer denied the allegations and said it intends to "vigorously defend itself." The company said that "while there were sales by executives of auction-rate securities, there were also executive purchases during this period and these same executives continue to hold millions of dollars of auction-rate securities." Oppenheimer said it continues to work with regulators and "financing sources" to find "a means for its clients to find liquidity from their auction-rate holdings."

The complaint is part of a crackdown this year on Wall Street sellers of the arcane auction products -- debt instruments that some brokers peddled as liquid, cash-like investments. The rates had been reset weekly or monthly in auctions conducted by Wall Street firms. But in the second week of February, dealers stopped supporting the market with bids. Customers couldn't sell the investments, which plunged in value.

Mr. Galvin's office gathered testimony and sale records, which said that as Oppenheimer officials discussed problems in the auction-rate securities market, several sold personal holdings between Feb. 1 and Feb. 12. The market collapsed between Feb. 12 and Feb. 14. In Massachusetts, Oppenheimer customers with 176 accounts were unable to access nearly $56 million, and many still can't, Mr. Galvin said.

The state wants Oppenheimer to repay customers who sold at a loss and to make whole those who can't sell. The state is also seeking a formal censure of the firm, as well as fines for Albert and Robert Lowenthal and for Greg White, managing director of the firm's auction-rate securities division. Regulators also want to revoke the state broker-dealer registration of the senior Mr. Lowenthal.

Albert Lowenthal and Mr. White didn't return phone calls seeking comment. Robert Lowenthal referred a call to Oppenheimer's spokesman, who declined to comment beyond the company's statement.

More than a dozen banks and securities companies have reached agreements with regulators in recent months to repurchase more than $50 billion in auction-rate securities at par, from mostly retail and smaller investors. The agreements settle allegations that the banks made misrepresentations in their marketing and sales of the securities.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:03AM

@6: @4 here. I don't work at MS, but do have several friends who do. Feel really bad for all these layoffs - this round is deep and there is basically no one hiring.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:05AM

someone post some pics from MS would you?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:06AM

Guess they won't be playing 'Return of the Mack' again over there anytime soon! Even though the chorus is something those getting laid off can identify with....

("You lied to me) all those times I said that I love you
(You lied to me) yes, I tried, yes, I tried
(You lied to me) even though you know I'd die for you
(You lied to me) yes, I cried, yes, I cried"

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uB1D9wWxd2w

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:07AM

I told you Wednesdays are the layoff day of choice at MS!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:09AM

@7, equities in Chicago is at the CBOE building (440 S LaSalle, not the CME.) Are they cutting futures people at the CME though?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:09AM

What is up with HR people? Can anyone explain where and how they attained skills to complete W9 forms? Is there a university program for this?

Is the HR Bimbo the last to leave or will Mack turn out the lights?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:10AM

John Mack is the worst CEO ever-completely F'd up MS and ran it into the ground.

If they would've let Notre Dame grad Phillip Purcell alone, the company would be #1 on the street.

The board of MS gets what they deserve.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:10AM

I hope she has a leather whip too. At least make the pain pleasurable.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:10AM

Hmmmmm....HR Rep in Black Leather Fuck Me Boots (with straps and buckles no doubt)cruising the halls and looking for blood to drink from unsuspecting trader corpses. Is this the New Black in layoff chic?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:10AM

@9 too long, didn't read.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:10AM

HR are subhumans.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:11AM

@12 touche.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:11AM

@12 touche touche

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:12AM

I can confirm this woman is in knee high boots, she's not that pretty though

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:15AM

@4/@10 - Layoffs deep everywhere. Friend at Citi says current 30% cuts in IBD are on top of 25% already whacked this year. Down 50% is the new stayin' in business. Ouch.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:15AM

Someone post a picture of the HR messenger of death at MS!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:16AM

Calm down.....

I have been in IB for 18 yrs at 3 bulge, and rarely are HR chicks ever HOT

They use every trick in the book to look slutty...b/c they know they are the only females around for the prisoners

As pointed out by the dude above she has thunder thighs

Black boots could make Hillary's canckles look bangable

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:20AM

Little do you know this HR Chick AIN'T A CHICK, there's a little surprise under there!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:23AM

Do you think HR mgt gives the underlings the heads up to dress like hundreds of angry dudes are going to be staring at you all morning so give em a little sumthin to look at before we kick them in the bags?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:24AM

@28 - FINKLE IS EINHORN! EINHORN IS FINKLE!

EINHORN IS MAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cue Crying Game music...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:26AM

Isn't it "Come Fuck Me Boots"?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:26AM

@30..great movie quote from Ace Ventura...I can never get enough...somebody please send a picture for #26 before he jumps outta a window

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:29AM

@14 - One senior futures guy that I know of for certain. They pretty much shut down the equity sales & trading team in Chgo. From what I hear, the severance packages were the worst to date. All the depth is gone. What's left (those making the decisions)are the bottom of the barrell. The surviving middle managers are struggling to get as far up sr. management's butts as they can. These remaining managers are the ones putting people's names in the hat! The place is going to implode.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:29AM

SAY HELLO TO CAPTAIN WINKIE!!!!!!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:29AM

Our HR Manager reports that at her master's level HR classes the student body consisted of flamingly gay men and bitter, mean-looking middle-aged women.

Fortunately, she is the exception that proves the rule. I'd buy her a new pair of knee-high (Hell, THIGH-high) boots once a week, if she'd wear them around the office. Yum.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:31AM

Flaming Gay Man Messenger of Death....send him over to GS now!!!!!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:35AM

ALL of structured credit gone.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:40AM

@37: How many people were in that group?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:45AM

@ 4 - Sack up. If you step up to the craps table and play the game - you face the risk of going down. I got whacked a month ago and I'm not feeling sorry for myself.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:47AM

Any word on Frontpoint?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:49AM

@37: These cuts are in the Equity division. There's no structured credit in IED.

Anyone know about Prop?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:50AM

im from ms....are the hr girl's initials jw? shes pretty cute, and fits the above description quite well.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:52AM

You guys need to take a picture of this girl

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:52AM

I got layed off awhile ago from a BB, was unemployed for a long time, ran up debts, and am now working at a boutique bank. Ideal? Hell no, but it's a job. People need to stop whining. It's okay to have a little sympathy, but let's keep things in perspective, this is a high-risk, high-reward industry. It is what it is.
At least those that are layed off have skills and an education to pick up somewhere else. It's not like the janitor or HR rep are getting layed off.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:54AM

Institutional equities whacked?! Are there ANY firm traders making money today?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 11:56AM

prop desk down to almost nothing. petie muller now playing in subway station again; this time not turning away the quarters dropped in his case.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:00PM

@45 the folks at commodities are straight up balling

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:04PM

@42...yup that be her!

You can see the ever slight outline of her g string too...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:09PM

@48

You are killing me smalls....get a pic

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:12PM

All - If you are getting fired, please send in a picture of the HR chick. You are getting fired, what do you care?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:14PM

U can't touch me!

HR Girl With Fuck Me Hard Black Leather Boots Walking The MS Halls

(they just told me to go down to the 3rd floor after lunch)

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:14PM

@30..great movie quote from Ace Ventura...I can never get enough...somebody please send a picture for #26 before he jumps outta a window

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:19PM

#40 - Thursday

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:20PM

How about merchant banking? They must be getting purged as well?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:22PM

@ 42 or 48

post her shortname or cost center. i need to look this chick up

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:28PM

just go on /n and do an email group list search for hr

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:28PM

42 here. i was a summer analyst...i wont be back at 1585 till next summer. i'm also not gonna post this girl's last name, but i'll still be amused if someone takes a pic

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:43PM

got canned today from IED..was an ED there

the HR was Jeannette Gamble (not sure of the spelling of the first name..but second name spelling is correct for sure)

Severance is OK but I am not sure what lies ahead

This is shit life for sure

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:44PM

MS peeps, initials are JW she's in HR at 1585...do some DUE DILIGENCE and send pic to Bess to post.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:47PM

You sure its Gamble? I thought her last name started with a W, no?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:51PM

#6o here

yes ..search for last name as "Gamble"

Bloody hot Irish bitch

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:52PM

there is a really cute blonde trader at MS, wears glasses sometimes for that intellectual look....hope she is ok

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:53PM

This is pretty despicable, so there are plenty of women at firms who are going for the low hanging fruit (aka you guys who can't find a chick outside of work) and dress accordingly. You shouldn't post names. There are some people in HR who are good at their jobs who have had many a miserable day lately. It's not fun being on the other side of the table telling someone they are fired- oh and FYI its your bosses decision to fire you to some degree so take you revenge fantasies up with them as well.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:56PM

@65 We aren't picking on her

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:56PM

There was this big homo guy in LN IT

i think his name is Adam Williams.
(LAN ID : williamsa)

Hope he is ok.

he has done some great service for New yorkers who visit london

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:56PM

Gambles on Fbook, and shes a pig. Think outside of the box fools....

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:57PM

there is a really cute blonde trader at MS, wears glasses sometimes for that intellectual look....hope she is ok

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:57PM

http://www.linkedin.com/pub/4/213/b07#h156-683

Here's the Linked In profile.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:58PM

jacqueline waugh.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 12:59PM

jacqueline waugh. very cute.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:00PM

holy cow.

Adam williams - yes. he used to get us dope when we visit there.

He is still with the company

can anyone confirm his MS ID pls ?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:07PM

42 again. waugh is correct.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:08PM

Any word on cuts in Compliance/Legal?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:10PM

@75...no Corp Security is strong - lot of fuckers being investigated.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:12PM

http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601087&sid=aHVU8MCjwZOQ&refer=home

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:16PM

some of you are real fucking idiots. I work at Oppenheimer and it is one of the best places to be right now - none of the BS that is going on at GS, MS, JPM, etc.. People can't send their resumes quick enough to us.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:17PM

can anyone confirm if my darling Adam William is still sitting in MS and dickign around ?

Adam Williams.
(LAN ID : williamsa)

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:20PM

@79: since it's 7:30 at night in London, I don't think you'll know until tomorrow.

Does every MS HR person have a first name with a "J" like the Duggar family?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:20PM

some of you are real fucking idiots. I work at Oppenheimer and it is one of the best places to be right now - none of the BS that is going on at GS, MS, JPM, etc.. People can't send their resumes quick enough to us.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:21PM

@78
be careful what you wish for, when quality people start applying your boss won't know how quick to fire you!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:22PM

80 its 6.30 here. I would be afraid for hr if i were you...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:23PM

has DB's collective IQ dropped to that of a large primate's?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:23PM

@81 See post #9. You work for a boiler room dressed up as a real firm. Run by a deceitful cheap criminal by the name of Bud Lowenthal.

Wake up, the only reason people work at Oppenheimer is because they can't get hired anywhere else!

Look at the people at 125 Broad Street - Case in point!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:25PM

Anyone working at MS check out the hot Asian chick Mary Tsai.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:25PM

Oppenheimer is the worst bottom feeder on wall street. The equivelant of plankton in the scheme of things.

I hear their offices smell like the bottom feeders that they are too! irca 1965 decor.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:26PM

@84 more like medium size reptiles with an emotional depth to match it

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:27PM

how does one post pics? i have some.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:29PM

@89 excellent send them to Bess

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:30PM

@86...she gobbles the goo.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:32PM

MS has now blocked Dealbreaker.com from internal access. Took them long enough.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:33PM

you can try trading sport stocks on oneseason.com

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:34PM

@86...she gobbles the goo.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:35PM

@92 well you know what happens shortly after a firm does that right?

Can you say OUT OF BUSINESS?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:35PM

@86...she gobbles the goo.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:36PM

I love when people look down on other firms on the street as "not elite enough"

You know how fucking stupid that sounds right now given how many of the "elite" firms suck cock?

Id rather work for Stifel or RayJay then MS right now. Good riddance you elitist fucks.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:37PM

@89- tips@dealbreaker.com

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:37PM

Oppenheimer is everyone's last stop on the Street, they go there to retire. Its a horrible place to be, and yet #79 feels the need to dance on graves...you are despicable. #79 is about as classy as Bud and Rob Lowenthal.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:39PM

Oppenheimer is everyone's last stop on the Street, they go there to retire. Its a horrible place to be, and yet #79 feels the need to dance on graves...you are despicable. #79 is about as classy as Bud and Rob Lowenthal.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:41PM

@99

Oppenheimer is the dirtiest little whore house in town!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:42PM

@27 My sister works in HR and she's hot...what the?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:42PM

@97
you really need to work on your self esteem.. girls don't like guys whithout selfrespect.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:43PM

@99

Bud & Rob Lowenthal = inbred freaks.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:45PM

@97 shut the fuck up, you sound retarded. you'd kill to be at the house of morgan

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:46PM

OPCO is so dirty and disgusting i don't even want to trade with them for fear of contracting a disease let alone work there!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:48PM

Jeannette Gamble's Myspace:

http://www.myspace.com/irishgrumbles

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:48PM

@97 if you just obtained your GED maybe you could work somewhere other than Oppenheimer. Don't be so angry if it wasn't for Bufd you would probably working sanitation on the night shift.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:51PM

What about IT?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:52PM

What the fuck is happening at merchant banking?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:52PM

Sounds like Jeanette Gamble should be working at Oppenheimer!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 1:54PM

Does that little slut Sherrie Beehler still give blow jobs to all the dirty old men at Oppenheimer? She was on quite the roll for a while there all those BJs never got her past being an assistant though!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:01PM

@112...she gobbles the goo.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:01PM

Oppenheimer sounds like something the Nazi's invented to suck the juice out of the Adolf H's cock.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:03PM

@114...no that is Allianz you are thinking of.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:04PM

Oh well, MS is now blocking DB, it's been fun.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:04PM

Ah der Allischwanz!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:05PM

@113 some things never change!!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:11PM

Need more Jeanette input, we gotta see the money shot and the fuck-me boots..

http://a340.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/3/l_cf80afa0ae2b811011abd4999dbba923.jpg

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:12PM

Bess won't post a picture of the HR chick. I wish she would. Whoever has it needs to post it someplace else and then post a link to it.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:13PM

you guys can upload it to tinypic.com

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:13PM

@118...poop chute riots!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:16PM

@120...not even just from the knees down so we can see the boots???

Damnit Bess - give us something good today! I need something to tape to my tin cup!

@119...left or right?

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:17PM

@123

Right (obviously)

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:17PM

@123...right, she jerked off a trader in a supply closet over the summer.

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:18PM

right...people said she was blonde

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:21PM

god damn that bitch is as gnarly as Alf, if I'd see my dog trying to hump that I'd kick him off!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:21PM

@119

THAT is what we've been talking about all afternoon?? Yikes...she's not even close to hot. We need a shot of the fuck-me boots or this whole day is a loss...

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:23PM

Jeez they have a teenie bopper handling their layoffs??? Things must be really desperate at MS!

Posted by guest , Nov 19, 2008 2:31PM

@129...better than some old hag.