According to Robert Benmosche, the people who have been on his case for kicking off his AIG career by tending his grapes in Croatia, have it all wrong. The truth of the matter is he really doesn’t need anybody else around and can fulfill all of the duties of CEO of one of the most troubled companies in the world by telecommuting.

Comments (39)

  1. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:20 PM

    AIG continues its lock on “Stupidest Company of the Century” Award!!! Where do they come up with these knuckle-headed Idiots!!!!

  2. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:21 PM

    This guy is a real fucking baller. All you hedgie bitches need to take a note on how to roll.

  3. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:24 PM

    He should take a vacation from life.

  4. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:25 PM

    He’s just tryin’ to impress BHO by being just like him.

  5. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:28 PM

    zzzzzzzzzzzz

  6. Posted by Investorcluzo | August 28, 2009 at 12:32 PM

    I do not approve of this previewing comments bit…makes for a double post.

  7. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:33 PM

    next

  8. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:36 PM

    Hi guys ;)

  9. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:39 PM

    Why is there still no post on the new FDIC rules?

  10. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:40 PM

    @1: I disagree–I think AIG should win the “Smartest Company of the Century.” It’s employees made a ton of money for many years, then when everything fell apart because of the products they sold, gov’t bailed out them out, the stockholders took the loss, and they got early retirement. Looks to me like they won the game.
    If I could find a job where I get to reap all of the upside reward and not be subject to any of the downside risk, I’d consider that a victory.

  11. Posted by Mark Klein MD | August 28, 2009 at 12:43 PM

    I warned the management of AIG many times in the comments of this blog and others that the premiums they were charging for CDS were too low. Of course, my advice went unheeded just as it often was back when I was practicing medicine. My patients would come back with some chronic fatal condition crying to me to save them, but it was too late…

  12. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:46 PM

    @11 nice
    -Another MKMD mocker

  13. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 12:54 PM

    @11 Did you warn your “top” as well not to stick it in too far when you girls play pirates together?

  14. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    How’d he get that job? I want it!

  15. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:02 PM

    Greg, your writing consistently makes me wish my mother had aborted me. Fuck you.

  16. Posted by NakedShort | August 28, 2009 at 1:03 PM

    #14 You’d get lockjaw before you S’ed enough Ds to get that gig

  17. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 28, 2009 at 1:05 PM

    I thought that guy was on trial in the Hague?

  18. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:14 PM

    Seriously the guy looks like some drunk they dragged out of a Tiki bar, gave a million bucks and made CEO.

  19. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 28, 2009 at 1:16 PM

    I thought that guy was thrown out of basketball for hitting a kid?

  20. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 28, 2009 at 1:28 PM
  21. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:29 PM

    Look, it’s not like they’re paying him a lot of money. At least he’s got his priorities straight. I actually like the guy. Just email it in.

  22. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:35 PM

    Plus, just think of the teen sex slave trade there. They must line up outside the gate every morning like day laborers. “OK, this morning I’ve got one xylobones, OK that’s you honey, and one funbags, ok right there. Sorry girls, that’s all today.”

  23. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:38 PM

    Laziness is the sin most willingly confessed to, since it implies talents greater than have yet appeared.

  24. Posted by Seaman Bodine II | August 28, 2009 at 1:40 PM

    @23
    you forgot to add ‘Mark Klein MD’ – then you’re post would’ve been funny

  25. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:41 PM

    Hah — good for this guy! I hope he never winds up on a street corner, with a lamp-post and a bus full of ACORN supporters nearby someday.

  26. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:49 PM

    Do they have dickweeds in Croatia?

  27. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:50 PM

    I’d skip out the country if my stock was getting the shit speculated out of it too.
    Are you guys hedging your shorts? This is ridiculous.

  28. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:53 PM

    Anybody seen a pair of Killer Loop sunglasses layin’ around?
    -CG

  29. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    Charlie, they’re laying next to the drill you used to make the glory hole in AD’s dressing room wall.

  30. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    The last guy that failed to show up at the office saw his firm turn belly up,which ended up as a cash for clunkers trade in at the Jamie Dimon dealership………..

  31. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 1:58 PM

    Nevermind about the sunglasses, fellas. I had them on.
    -CG

  32. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 2:13 PM

    @26 What???!!! You didn’t see the picture on this article….Duh!

  33. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 2:16 PM

    26=Beaker shopping for a villa.

  34. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    I telecommute every day. I’m supposedly head of Latin Am operations for my company, but haven’t traveled there in over a year due to travel spending cuts.

  35. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 2:51 PM

    “telecommute” is such a stupid word. just admit that you “work from home.”

  36. Posted by Former Dr. | August 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    I warned Charlie Gasparino many times in the comments of this Blog that too Gabbagol can make you testy. Did he listen to me? No.
    I also warned Barney Frank and Congress, via my posts on IMDB, financial professionals that CDs were unsound, obsolete, and took up too much room in this age of I-Tunes. Did they listen to me? No.
    I warned Alice not to step into that mirror – based on my experiences when I used to be a Mad Hatter. Did she listen to me? No.
    NOBODY FUCKING LISTENS TO ME!!!!
    –Mark Klein, MD, LOL, ROTFLMAO, XYZPDQ, EIEIO, A2M.

  37. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    @35 or from your vacation villa!

  38. Posted by guest | August 28, 2009 at 3:49 PM

    B.S. Alfred University
    Fall 2008 Freshman Class Statistics:
    Number of Freshman Class Applications: 2557
    Number of Freshmen: 502
    Number of Men: 283
    Number of Women: 219
    Over 88% of enrolling freshmen ranked in the top half of their high school class.
    Middle 50% of enrolling freshmen have SAT scores between 1030-1210
    (Mean 1123)

  39. [...] What does AIG commander-in-chief Robert Benmosche have to say about that? Shove it up your ass. As previously stated by Bobby himself, he can do just as good a job remotely in Croatia, where he has grapes to tend to [...]

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