Until then suck it up. Gasparino claims today in the Post that Ken Lewis is going to have to meet the demands of the SEIU re: bank tellers or possibly get fired because apparently there’s a chance Obama will get rid of the CEO since the union helped the prez get elected and Obama could conceivably feel like he owes them one. Gaspo has got a problem with this for a whole buncha reasons, one of them being that he’s skeptical that the SEIU’s main goal is the recovery of the financial system, which is what the group has been running its collective mouth saying. The other is that guess what? Being a bank teller isn’t the sort of job where you could get killed. The SEIU, to our knowledge, has never actually claimed this was the case but CG wants to put it out there anyway.
And I have some trouble seeing how being a bank teller is akin to working at a sweat shop. My dad was a union wire lather (a form of iron worker), a job where men risked their lives on the job nearly every day. He nearly lost his leg in one accident, and suffered a near life-threatening concussion in another.
A bank teller is some kind of hell.
His dad was a Redhook tranny, blowing longshoremen for a sawbuck.
You should the some of the corns i’ve got from standing all day!
@2 ftw
Why is his face so red?
Somehow it’s always about Charlie, isn’t it?
His dad bent hot steel with his iron jaw, but Charlie soft hands works with his brain.
I think Gaspo is mixing his metaphors. I associate “sweat shop” with Glengarry Glenn Ross and or textile/garments. Dangerous factory work isn’t sweat shop work.
If you want to see a real “sweat shop”, tell your crude oil buyers they can’t go to lunch out of the office or go golfing for a week. Might need some tranquilizers available as well.
@ 5 been hangin with the Moz.
@4 fym
@5. Because Ben Bernanke and Hank Paulson had just finished JO&C on his face after he tried to back out of the Merrill deal and it took quite a bit of scrubbing to get everything cleaned up.
@6 you gotta problem with that?
-cg
@9..Eup,tnsigaruon.
@5 he and the Moz were enjoying a day down on the farm, so to speak. Slightly soused, he musta accidentally climbed into the Moz’s tanning bed which goes to 11, not 10 like all the others.
I think Ken Lewis is just doing a Cherokee Indian impersonation, and that is racist.
M.O.P.
everything is always about charlie
@9 means for your mom?
Charlie’s reportage would carry more weight if his father had lost a leg or had suffered a life-threatening concussion.
@5 too much limelight
you know where else you’d risk losing limbs on the job? working for THE MAFIA.
@19 that’s what he wanted to say.
Chaz talking about this now and is definitely shitfaced.
WTF is a “near life-threatening” concussion? Either it’s life threatening or it’s a bump on the head that the Gasparino family has been whining about for 2 generations.
I don’t get his pt. who the hell cares that being a bank teller isn’t life threatening? is being a talking head on CNBC life threatening?
My son is an embarrassment.
-Gasparino Sr.
Maybe the title for this would more appropriately be: “Call Charlie Gasparino When You’re (Not Quite) Risking The Loss Of Limbs On The Job
@24 tell us more
If CG wants to make a point, he’ll do it, no matter how little sense it makes/relevance is has to the topic at hand.
is that cg’s mom in the pic with KL?
@28 it’s his wife
@29/28 prepare for the beatin of a lifetime.
-cg
odds chaz goes dk on us…
@31 slim to none. chaz loves bess.
Charlie shoulda been a wire steel lather. Perhaps he’d be good at that.
Pfluger
Photo Caption:
“I knew you could get that whole bottle of Boone’s up there, Ken. Wait, are you blushing? Don’t be ashamed.”