As you likely know, Bloomberg reported earlier that Erin Callan is taking a "personal leave of absence" from her job at Credit Suisse. A reader noted that Callan had something of a "nervous breakdown" this morning, and while we hope that isn't true, a little digging inside CS suggests it might be. If you've heard anything else, let us know.
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Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:13PM
Bess...
A few hours late and a dollar short on this one. We already posted this in the comments a few hours ago.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:16PM
@1= must be Gasparino in disguise
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:16PM
@1....
that's why it says 'as you likely know,' intard.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:16PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBBKpbiuNAs
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:16PM
Too troubling, didn`t read.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:16PM
@1- oooo, you posted a link to a bberg story? nice work! would you like a medal or a chest to pin it on?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:18PM
Rumor has it she was weeping at her desk this morning causing a scene.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:18PM
Too troubling, didn`t read.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:18PM
it's kind of sad. i'd like to remind everyone. BARNEY FRANK CREATED THIS MESS. And now we are all paying for it. It's more disgusting than the male brothel he used to run out of his apartment.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:18PM
Rumor has it she was weeping at her desk this morning causing a scene.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:21PM
@7/10-- I heard that also.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:21PM
@9 You are a looser. The idiots in charge of these financial institutions got everyone into this mess!
Posted by merkin capital partners , Feb 04, 2009 1:23PM
Rumor has it Dwight put his sweater around her and said "you must be PMSing pretty bad".
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:23PM
just a bad case of PMS
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:23PM
I guess she will go into seclusion at her multi million dollar apartment at 15 CPW which has become the home of all the people responsible for this mess!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:24PM
you're an asshole, @13.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:24PM
@12 Read the news, educate yourself, and think things through beyond the headlines. And while you're at it, go back to yahoo finance after you finish executing my transactions. thanks
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:24PM
@9
Your Are A Moron.
Unless you are a parody of EP.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:25PM
She's just feeling bad about all the little people who were at Lehman who lost out financially. I cry for them from time to time, too.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:25PM
@12, Barney Frank is a looser, @9 is a loser. (no offense, @9)
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:26PM
The same Erin that DB sent flowers to congratulating her on her new position? The same Erin that never said "thank you."
http://youtube.com/watch?v=j9ZNnI74b6E
Lets try this gift idea again, email me your best gift idea for our favorite little nut.
SPODE@dealbreaker.com
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:26PM
Whay do your "inside sources" say about this Charles....situation still fluid?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:26PM
@17...They still let you put trades in after they have pulled your book becaus eyou blew up your P&L. Wow, no wonder why we are in trouble!!! Go back to making pizzas in Brooklyn you idiot.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:28PM
Nere let them see you cry at your desk!!!! Bad JuJu.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:28PM
Maybe her cat died.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:28PM
Pizza's in Brooklyn is the new killing it.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:28PM
Maybe her pussy was dry.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:29PM
I'm afraid this thread is going to become a misogynist and gay bashing feast. Typical of back office weirdos.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:29PM
@9, @12, @17, @18, @23: what are you guys going to do with the extra money you are going to save under obama's new tax cuts?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:30PM
Send EP some Xanax, it is a must have for the modern Wall Street woman.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:32PM
Question from a newbie: who is EP?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:32PM
@28 Back office makes all the money these days! IB guys are capped at salaries lower than their secretaries!!!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:33PM
nervous breakdown is confirmed, it happened
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:33PM
Too bear market, didn't high hemlines
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:33PM
@27, stay classy.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:34PM
@29 The real question is what will you and all your IB buddies do with the tax break money now that your incomes are less than that of a sanitation worker?????
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:35PM
@31, one of the DB writers, you will need some self thought to survive here.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:35PM
HAHA!
Men have better system justification skillz than women! HAHA!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:36PM
Was she quickly escorted into a black towncar waiting on Madison and swooped off to Rehab?
"They tried to make her go to rehab...she said NO..No..NO!!!Cause she won't GO..GO..GO!!"
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:36PM
@31, one of the DB writers, you will need some self thought to survive here.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:36PM
@12 - 56k connection not allowing you to read news properly?
@1 - STFU and go get Bess a coffee, 2 sugars (you know the drill)
@31 - you poor b@stard
Jack
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:36PM
Brick killed a guy.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:37PM
As a voice of reason here, I'd like to agree that Barney Frank had a lot to do with this mess.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:40PM
@36 you are a sanitation worker.
I'm Starting a Class Warfare Pay-Per-View Channel - FYI
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:40PM
@43
I beg to differ.
The mess is not the fact that comp has become a hot topic for everyone on Wall Street.
The mess is what this industry has been allowed to do.
The mess is the aftermath which we are now living in...not the fact that there is no $$ to pay idiots rediculous sums of money for no apparent reason other than they feel they are entitled to it.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:42PM
@44
You will certainly be working as a sanitation man when your ass is laid off from whatever shit hole you work at these days.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:42PM
Very strange it went so public so quick. You'd think crisis mgmnt would say she's taking a vacay. To Promises.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:43PM
It's okay, Erin's Ativan stores remain "well capitalized"
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:45PM
@37- No you don't.
SPODE
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:48PM
@ 45. OK, you need to force those synapses to connect. It goes back to forced lending to unqualified investors, which gave birth to securitizations of mortgages to spread around the risk, which led to lots of things that led to this mess. ask barney himself.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:49PM
PLEASE for fuck's sake...keep Pelosi, Barack Hussain and all these other dimwitted populists nitwits away from microphones.
mkt has beenn in tailspin since BHO's lil peptalk at 1030 and Pelosi just tanked us into the red.
Fuck. Dick, pussy, snot and shit.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:55PM
IF NP says we're losing 500MM jobs per month and the gov't reports let's say 1MM jobs lost per month, does that mean 499MM jobs were really created?
Mortimer - we're back in business!!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 1:58PM
@18--Way to use proper english there champ.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:01PM
Ok so who here has nice big feet???
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:01PM
50 I would say rather than forced lending, the problem was exotic terms that would work only if the housing prices continued to increase rapidly.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:02PM
@39- No you don't.
Just got this in bitches, my sources are telling me that Erin was crying because she might have to give up her bonus.
Erin: You want to recall my bonus? This peanut recall is driving me nuts! I want to punch Obama in the face.
wait for it
wait for it
http://www.americansweets.co.uk/ekmps/shops/statesidecandy/images/payday.jpg
Bess wants me to get this gift in the mail ASAP so I'm out of here bitches. See ya next weak; just like my jokes.
SPODE
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:02PM
"looser"
Will it never stop?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:04PM
@54 what's up with the foot fetish?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:05PM
She is upset because Dylan Ratigan just dumped her to spend more time with Gasarino.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:07PM
I heard she was shortly thereafter spotted buying shoes on Madison Avenue! Something about a 'shoe sale is more important then FAS 157'...
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:08PM
See: www.sadtrombone.com
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:08PM
Nice comments. jeez.
So, anyone here have info on DB layoffs today?????
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:08PM
If the story is true, Callan just set women in business back 40 years.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:08PM
Too DSM, didn't IV
Posted by blndebnker , Feb 04, 2009 2:10PM
Seriously if that woman cried at her desk in front of people, I'm going to lose it. Why? WHY?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:12PM
@64 While not a good comment by any means, I like where your head is at.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:13PM
54 All I can say is that I almost look forward to weekend work in the summer cause two dudes in my group have the biggest hottest feet and always wear flips. Sometimes as early as April one of them will actually show up in flips with his jeans. Can't wait.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:14PM
@9 @43 is correct, but to be fair, it was Congress of BOTH PARTIES who is to blame. It was Barney Frank in 1996 and a small caucus of individuals who led the laws of anti-red lining legislation, FORCING BANKS TO LEND TO LOW INCOME/LOW CREDIT WORTHY INDIVIDUALS. To be fair, if my memory serves me correct, Congress was run by Republicans, and Phil Gramm in particular who led the deregulation and consolidation of the "one-stop shop" banking legislation that President Clinton signed. When then President Bush #43 tried to reign in Fannie and Freddie in 2003, it was Barney Frank who stood in the way.
Obama is a socialist, but in no way to be blamed for this mess.
Wall Street has no credibility to cry about the new compensation rules. If you don't like it, give TARP back. DON'T DEAL WITH THE DEVIL.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:15PM
@67 LEAVE SICKO
Posted by BottomFellOut , Feb 04, 2009 2:16PM
She should be charged with fraud.
She signed off as to the financial position of Lehman and made statements that were misleading and lies
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:16PM
Dylan Ratigan broke her heart in two.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:20PM
67 - go cruise some Trannies with Gasparino tonight you sick fuck
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:21PM
Dylan Ratigasparino broke her heart into little lehmans.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:21PM
SEC Director of Inspections went to Madoff Family wedding of underling!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:22PM
@70 misleading AND lies?!? wow
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:24PM
I can not for the life of me figure out what that ungodly pressure on my sphincter is.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:25PM
she's on the rag that's all - Bess shoulda known that the minute she wrote this
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:25PM
@45: It's ridiculous, not rediculous
@60: It's than FAS 157, not "then FAS 157"
It's hard to take comments seriously when written by krill with 5th grade grammar skills.
You guys must be bond brokers.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:26PM
@50 + @68. You are in total denial. Respectively, what percentage of "troubled" mortgages were originated and/or bought by FNM/FRE, by banks, and by institutions not regulated by the CRA, to which you appear to be referring? And who FORCED Wall Street to securitize them? And who FORCED the rating agencies to misrate these securities? I could go on and on. An anti-government worldview does not even come close to explaining this sh-tshow.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:26PM
Any comments on this here?
This exciting exchange just on CNBC:
Gasparino: Let me finish!
Melissa Francis: But you never finish!
Gasparino: Really? I could do this for some other place.... Please don't go down that road.
Bill Griffeth and MC Cabrera: [awkward laughter and shifty glances]
Bess, are you guys going to hire Gasparino?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:26PM
@68, 9 here, nicely done.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:28PM
Deactivate your spell checkers, we have a grammarian amongst us.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:35PM
Very sad, she's manic/depressive. You can see it in her eyes. She's brilliant, most times she's really put together, other times you say "What's she wearing!?". Bess or EP have even commented on it. Read Bill Styron. Or Kay Redfield Jamison "An Unquiet Mind".
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:36PM
@79. You're cracking me up. You really believe what you wrote?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:40PM
gasbags seem on the verge of doing a callan as well...
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:42PM
#68 here. @79, you need to go back to school. I did not say that Wall Street was not blameless and that rating agencies were not order takers either. All this is true.
My thesis is that Congress is the PRIMARY driver of GDP (Being the "G" as largest spender) and the main fire starter when it comes to regulation or lack thereof. If you give a kid the keys to the candy store, you better d@mn well expect that he's going to go in there and take all the candy he can. As for the rating agencies, they were comprised of individuals WHO WANTED TO BE THE KID IN THE CANDY STORE rather than the person giving the kid the keys. Everyone I knew who worked at rating agencies did everything they could to get into Wall Street. THAT INCENTIVE BUSINESS MODEL WAS FLAWED.
Since our country has not tried "true capitalism" in a long time (and probably wont now), anti-government DOES explain this s#!#show! The flaws of liberals, and Obama in this case, is that ATLAS WILL SHRUG. The best and brightest will go elsewhere and the primariy beneficiaries of Wall Street, state pensions, institutional pensions, large cities, will all suffer.
Now, while I'm at work adding value to my bedrock institution, I don't have any data or numbers validating what % of the portfolio Fannie and Freddie originated, not originated etc. What I do know is that Fannie and Freddie were doing quite fine (not perfect) before the gates of h@ll were opened in the late 1990s.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:42PM
@67...Sounds hot, what firm are you at?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:44PM
Now Dylan Ratigan, those are some hot feet!! He took his shoes off on Leno once mad me pop some wood!!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:46PM
it was Greenspan - with the free money - in the kitchen...
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:46PM
do you ever feel like one of your tooths is loose?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:47PM
Dylan Ratigan can also play a sweet tune on a hollowed out gourd flute. (This is how he met Gaspacho)
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:47PM
Gazza's hissy with Melissa Francis a little while ago just confirms it - the man knows his time is just about up, and he'll make sure he takes down as many reporters on CNBC with him as possible. Please Charles, just go "down that road" already. You are obviously baiting everyone! I'm sure Ratigan is next up.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:50PM
@69 Suck my size 13 feet douche.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:50PM
can we get back to Erin you insensitive pricks?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:52PM
Kramer is on now. Bet he has little ugly feet!
Posted by miami , Feb 04, 2009 2:53PM
31 - http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=equity+private
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:55PM
@69 so I guess that means @67's post cause you to get a hard on at your desk huh?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:55PM
seriously, deutche news?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:57PM
Serious Foot Fetish news!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:57PM
Who is Dylan Ratigan?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:58PM
@100 you need to get out of the bubble more often.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 2:59PM
Mayooooooooooo
lets hear it for old school
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:00PM
Was she really weeping at her desk?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:02PM
Anyone have their shoes ff at their desk right now?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:04PM
87 It is hot. Firm doesn't matter. Frat boys love flips and every firm is filled with frat boys.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:04PM
No seriously, WHO IS DYLAN RATIGAN?
(C'mon SOMEONE has to have read Ayn Rand...)
http://www.instantrimshot.com/
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:04PM
I'd like the opportunity to console Erin. First I'd give her a nice little hug, tell her it's going to be all right. Then I'd transition into a backrub, to help her relax. Ten minutes later, I'd be sweating and grunting, looking down at her back tattoo, holding her by the ankles, doing the minx wheelbarrel-style.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:05PM
Who is 'she'?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:06PM
@107 Forget that, Id put her in a hogtie and throw a ballgag in. Show her who's boss on the Street.
Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie , Feb 04, 2009 3:06PM
This Phish song is in HONOR of Erin Callan...I think she finally got around to reading the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and as soon as she realized she signed off on a misleading 10-Q and may have committed securities fraud, she lost it...Get well soon, Erin...
Chalkdust Torture
Come stumble my mirth beaten worker
I'm Jezmund the family berzerker
I'm bought for the price of a flagon of rice
The wind buffs the cabin, you speak of your life
Or more willingly Locust the Lurker
Confuse what you can of the ending
And revise your despise so impending
'Cause I soak on the wrath that you didn't quite mask
I'm getting it clearly through alternate paths
Or mixed in with the signal you're sending
But who can unlearn all the facts that I've learned
As I sat in their chairs and my synapses burned
And the torture of chalk dust collects on my tongue
Thoughts follow my vision and dance in the sun
All my vasoconstrictors they come slowly undone
Can't this wait till I'm old? Can't I live while I'm young?
But no peace for Jezmund tonight
I plug the distress tube up tight
And watch what I say as it flutters away
And all this emotion is kept harmless at bay
Not to educate somebody's fright
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:07PM
She left in a fit of rage because she heard Bergdorfs was having 75% off of Jimmy Choo's -
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:08PM
@105 you ever touched any of those frat boys feet?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:09PM
DealBreaker Army - is this or is it not Stan O'Neal in this picture
http://www.dlisted.com/node/30508/images/gossipfakers2.jpg
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:10PM
@106 on CNBC now go see for yourself.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:11PM
Who is Dylan Gasparino?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:12PM
D-GASP reporting: "Half-Pig Half-Man seen..."
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:13PM
109 Not to burst your little fantasy, but if it takes a hog tie and ball gag to show a 110 pound woman who's boss, there's something very wrong with you.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:14PM
Ratigan reporting that he loves having guys suck his toes.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:15PM
"Close your eyes and think of Einhorn, baby."
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:18PM
Has anyone else seen Dylan Ratigasparino play the gourd flute at a club in NYC? He played the hell outa that flute.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:22PM
110 that was horrible, I hope you find a job soon
Posted by blndebnker , Feb 04, 2009 3:24PM
@102 - Sham WOW!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:25PM
DR plays skin flute through a gourd.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:29PM
@113 No idea, but that's def cheech and chong
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:30PM
Who is Erin Callan?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:40PM
Whay are all the posts about hot guys feet disappearing??
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:42PM
TGFD just tuned in to DB, and I went right to the comments on this thread. Please accept my apologies for skipping all the other entries.
I’ve never been a fan of Erin Callan, so news of her “breakdown” comes as no surprise to TGFD. How long did she last at CS? 5 months? She couldn’t make it with Mr. Fuld, and now she’s failed again. I new she wouldn’t last in a position that was way beyond her capabilities. Back in August, I laughed about her appointment at CS and predicted her departure.
TGFD doesn’t really know WTF a ‘nervous breakdown’ is, but if “crying at one’s desk” defines it, then I think many people have had one and don’t even realize it. Obviously, something else is going on with Erin.
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:42PM
Really "vasoconstrictors" in a song??? Makes me glad I've never heard a Phish song.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:43PM
@126- because they're inane spam?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:43PM
I just want to know if she was escorted out to a waiting towncar that swept her away to rehab.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:45PM
@129 One mans spam is another mans ecitement.
Seems there is a big foot fetish sollowing here on DB. Maybe we should create a thread solely for that and see.
Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie , Feb 04, 2009 3:46PM
@121
What the PHUCK did I do wrong??? I didn't make her take the CFO position at Lehman Brothers, SHE DID it on her accord! And I find it AMAZING a tax lawyer such as herself is too lazy to read the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002, and had to hire ANOTHER LAWYER to help her out. Hell, I have read it myself, and I will tell ya, from what I have read, she could hire every lawyer at Proskauer Rose, and it would not do her a bit of good. She should not be sent to prison though, exile her from the State of New York to an American Indian Reservation to serve her prison sentence; she can then rebuild her life out there, and become a better person. Bad enough she is going to be sued until the end of time, and will have no $$$...
And on a personal note, I do believe she is a "passive-aggressive" manic depressive. I can say this for myself because I am, and I do take medication to smoothe the highs and lows. Erin needs help, and I do hope she gets it!
Besides, everyone in the Phish community is PISSED OFF at the possible merger of Ticketmaster and Live Nation...we'll never get tickets again, as the scalpers/ticket brokers will have the advantage. :(
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:47PM
127,
I have extensive experience with the womens and I find many of them to be quite emotional at times.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:47PM
@114. Atlas Shurgged. What happened to a financiers healthy love of literature?
Love,
John Galt
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:48PM
Guest@#130...
HowTF did you get a "4:12PM" time stamp on your entry when it's only 3:49 now?
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:49PM
@86: Barney Frank must be the most powerful person in Washington... he singlehadedly put the kabosh on all attempts to reform Fannie and Freddie from 2000 until 2006 without even a benefit of a committee chair. If the gates of hell indeed opened in the late 1990s why in blazes did it take so long for a Republican President, Republican House, and Republican Senate to freakin' shut them? Oh yeah, that's it, it was Barney Frank's fault. And Jimmy Carter. And Grover Cleveland.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:49PM
@136 I was thinking ahead of the curve!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:52PM
Who is Dylan Ratigast?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:54PM
HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?
This is hysterical. You have to try this. It is absolutely true. I guess
there are some things that the brain cannot handle.
HOW SMART IS YOUR RIGHT FOOT?
It is from an orthopaedic surgeon............ This will boggle your mind and you will keep you trying over and over again tosee if you can outsmart your foot, but, you can't. It's pre-programmed in your brain!
1. Without anyone watching you (they will think you are cvrazy) and
while sitting at your desk in front of your computer, lift your right foot
off the floor and make clockwise circles.
2. Now, while doing this, draw the number '6' in the air with your right
hand. Your foot will change direction.
And there's nothing you can do about it! You and I both know how stupid it is, but before the day is done you are going to try it again, if you've not already done so.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:55PM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AMxs-clSrZM&feature=related
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 3:59PM
@121 Thanks for sharing that you're bipolar. It sure does explain a lot about your posts.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:01PM
Are we still talking about Nancy Pelosi or did I miss something?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:02PM
Oops my post @141 is meant to reference Blackstone @132, not @121.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:12PM
Was it because she submitted her resume for the DB writer position and was rejected? Cold.
Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie , Feb 04, 2009 4:13PM
@141 Yes, I am bipolar.
@130 Is Erin a cokehead??? If she is, in my opinion, she ain't comin' back to CS...she's history.
But I do hope she gets her life back together none the less. She needs a good LSD trip; she can go chase unicorns in Central Park, look at rainbows all day, reflecting on her past mistakes, becoming a better person. Actually, I believe EVERYONE who is employed on Wall Street should be given LSD prior to hiring; nothing beats "ego disintegration," when you question your own existence.
God bless Timothy Leary...
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:16PM
Who is Erin Callahan?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:24PM
@107 - Nice.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:28PM
if the idiot yahoo finance commenters are not banned by the moderators, then this site is going to devolve and lose a major portion of its appeal
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:31PM
@148 is right..DB should probably make people register to post, might cut down on the spam and get us back to the way it used to be. Solid comments from smart Street people.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:37PM
Does Erin have a boyfriend? I'd like to invite her over and show her my etchings.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:38PM
WTF when did Foot Guy come back?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:45PM
I think this calls for $10 million in severance
Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie , Feb 04, 2009 4:52PM
"Rehab" by Amy Winehouse
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
I'd rather be at home with Ray
I ain't got seventy days
Cause there's nothing
There's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway
I didn't get a lot in class
But I know it don't come in a shot glass
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
The man said 'why do you think you here'
I said 'I got no idea
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
so I always keep a bottle near'
He said 'I just think your depressed,
kiss me here baby and go rest'
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
I don't ever wanna drink again
I just ooh I just need a friend
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks
have everyone think I'm on the mend
It's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 4:54PM
153 Blackstone, stop posting song lyrics. One, TLDR. Two, fucking annoying.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 5:01PM
@145 don't forget to give props to Alexander Shulgin
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Feb 04, 2009 5:38PM
actually i was kind of curious to read the Rehab lyrics.
and Phish sucks, except for Suzie Greenberg.
and TGFD's post just confirmed what I long suspected - that he sucks.
and i cry at my desk all the time.
Posted by Cincinnatus C , Feb 04, 2009 5:39PM
actually i was kind of curious to read the Rehab lyrics.
and Phish sucks, except for Suzie Greenberg.
and TGFD's post just confirmed what I long suspected - that he sucks.
and i cry at my desk all the time.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 5:41PM
@136, it's called a filibuster. Go look it up on wikipedia, halfwit.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 5:44PM
"Rehab" by Amy Winehouse
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
I'd rather be at home with Ray
I ain't got seventy days
Cause there's nothing
There's nothing you can teach me
That I can't learn from Mr Hathaway
I didn't get a lot in class
But I know it don't come in a shot glass
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
The man said 'why do you think you here'
I said 'I got no idea
I'm gonna, I'm gonna lose my baby
so I always keep a bottle near'
He said 'I just think your depressed,
kiss me here baby and go rest'
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
I don't ever wanna drink again
I just ooh I just need a friend
I'm not gonna spend ten weeks
have everyone think I'm on the mend
It's not just my pride
It's just 'til these tears have dried
They tried to make me go to rehab but I said 'no, no, no'
Yes I've been black but when I come back you'll know know know
I ain't got the time and if my daddy thinks I'm fine
He's tried to make me go to rehab but I won't go go go
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 5:55PM
This place is horrible - someone is going through a difficult time in her life and you can't give her any privacy because amusing yourself over people's problems make you feel better about yourself.
And you act like petty, mean misogynists whose only joy in life is insulting women and that is why you feel good when something bad happens to them. And you can't understand why so many people hate bankers.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 6:12PM
Is Erin Callans a made up person?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 6:34PM
Did anyone actually SEE what happened and WHY? Comment please
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 7:06PM
160
You have it wrong. It's not bankers that are mean and misogynistic, it's simply men being men. Don't cry now little lady.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 7:24PM
How many women or gay men are CEOs at major banks?
Making fun of Paulson or Blankfein or Fuld is funny - making fun of a woman trying to cope in an industry filled with misogynists who is going through a difficult time is not funny.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 9:28PM
Callan is too sexy. She needs me.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 9:39PM
@113 - I don't think so. The nose isn't pointy enough.
@124 - Lol. I thought you were joking, I had to go look again. It definitely is them.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 9:55PM
amy winehouse = shirley bassey for kids who like their music black but dont have the balls to hear it from a black woman
erin callan did not have a nervous breakdown, this rumor was circulating for days and she's been talking to coworkers about it.
you playa hatin punks, get a life, dont drag someone else down.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 10:09PM
I was in the elevator with Callan and she threw up all over me before casually exiting. The other elevator riders all laughed at me.
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 10:17PM
Are you crying? There's no crying! There's no crying in high finance!
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 10:20PM
So wait, because she's a woman she should get a free pass on her epic fail?
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 10:50PM
164 Why you lumping women with gay men? I find that the later cope quite well with misogynists. Similar to the way ethnic people of all stripes generally cope with whatever petty prejudice comes their way. Women however tend to bring a little more emotion into the workplace equation than is appropriate. Which naturally gets them into trouble. GAnalYst
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 10:55PM
....that said, what happenend to EC is no one's business. Grow up kids and be glad it wasn't you that had that kind of day, week, year. GAnalYst
Posted by guest , Feb 04, 2009 11:18PM
So a glorified secretary had a bad day. Why is this news?
D. Rat
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 1:08AM
Come on guys, this is just the old "I'm fucked up/out of my mind, so don't indict me on securities fraud" strategy. Who hasn't done this at least once.
Somewhat related, why is it that only male CEOs get charged with stuff like that?
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 7:09AM
@174- the popo/regulators are all men and want to take their competition higher in the pecking order down a notch. Women get backdoor plea deals, perhaps literally
Can take people out of the jungle, can't take the jungle out of people
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 10:32AM
CC@#156/157...
TGFD knows that people, women usually, sometimes cry at their desks. It happens for a myriad of reasons, but it hardly is indicative of a nervous breakdown. As I said in my #112 post, something else is going on with Erin.
Clown@#160...
Erin Callan made her life a very public spectacle last year when she masqueraded as a hot-assed fashionista on CNBC. She set herself up as a target for criticism. Why feel sorry for her?
The Guy from Delaware
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 10:50AM
WHO IS ERIN CALLASPARINO????
Posted by TheBlackstoneGroupie , Feb 05, 2009 10:59AM
Three reasons she WILL be indicted:
(1) Signing off on the 2008 Q1 10-Q, which was misleading, violating Title IX, Section 906, Section 1350 of the Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002; penalties:
(a) "certifying" a false report; up to $1M fine, up to ten years in prison
(b) "willfully certifying" a false report; up to $10M fine, up to twenty years in prison
(2) raising $6B in capital in early June, selling shares at $28/share on false financial premises; some of the victims: Hank Greenberg of AIG, Blackrock and Wes Edens of Fortress Investment Group
(3) changing her story on a mark pertaining to a private equity investment, in which David Einhorn can corroborate
There you go...I just "indicted" her. She will be doing a "perp walk" in a Chanel dress and Manolo Blahniks.
Welcome to the Machine...
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 12:05PM
I hope all of this bashing makes you feel better about yourselves.
I haven't seen one fact about Erin that is accurate. She hasn't been in the office for a week so the sighting of tears, etc... are inaccurate.
She has not suffered a nervous breakdown but if you wrote this crap about me, I would.
How would you feel if someone wrote this stuff about your daughter? sister? mother?
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 12:09PM
@179 Are You Erin?? Hav eyou finally emergerd from 15 CPW??
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 12:13PM
@179
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUpoxtijhbk
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 12:13PM
just a fan
Posted by guest , Feb 05, 2009 12:15PM
@179
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iUpoxtijhbk
Posted by guest , Feb 08, 2009 10:26AM
$9mm for 6 months work ain't bad
Posted by guest , Feb 08, 2009 10:27AM
$9mm for 6 months work ain't bad
Posted by guest , Feb 10, 2009 6:27PM
I used to work on Wall St. long ago, when it was full of men, nothing but men, real men.
Best of all, we were funny.
I've noticed that Wall St. today is a group of brainwashed poser-idiots. Their tight-assed wired-up personalities couldnt come up with a funny thought if their bonuses depended on it.
The boards on this website are a perfect example.
Why dont all you Wall St. people under 50 just kill yourselves?