Screen shot 2009-10-14 at 1.54.49 PM.pngFucking women. It’s not that financial services firms in the UK don’t want to employ them, or think they couldn’t do just as bang-up a job as the men. This is not one of those situations.* The Brits love the ladies and would like nothing than more to hire them, and maybe maul them a little on the job. And therein lies the problem. Not with the grabbing of asses, per se. Nothing wrong with that. The issue is with the obscene potential pay-out these chippies could collect in the event their colleagues or superiors decide through no fault of their own to get pawsy.

Nichola Pease, deputy chairman and former chief executive of the division of Credit Suisse Group AG, said companies are scared away from hiring women because penalties for successful sex discrimination claims are unlimited and the U.K. offers 52 weeks of maternity leave compared with 12 weeks in the U.S.
“A year maternity leave is too long, and sex discrimination claims that run into 10s of millions of pounds are ridiculous,” Pease told the Treasury Committee, a cross- party panel of lawmakers overseeing economic policy.
“What I worry about is that legislation and protection turns this into a nightmare,” Pease said. “We’ve got to be realistic and make sure the protection, which has very good motivation, doesn’t end up backfiring both at a female level and at a U.K. competitiveness level.”

*Ixnay on the ACSay.

Comments (36)

  1. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 1:46 PM

    best Rounders-related tag ever

  2. Posted by Anal_yst | October 14, 2009 at 1:47 PM

    great tag, Ping for RBS HR Chief!

  3. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 1:50 PM

    Let’s play “guess Greg’s next post.”
    Only 2 choices though, it’s either a story lifted from Bloomberg or a subject where he can work in that picture of the foreclosed home.

  4. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 1:52 PM

    @3 let’s play, s a fucking d, don’t bring that trash into my domain.
    -bess

  5. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 1:54 PM

    Boss Luvin, I resent that.
    我恨你婊子
    - ping

  6. Posted by pfluger | October 14, 2009 at 1:55 PM

    With 52 weeks of paid maternity leave, it seems possible for a woman to work for a year or two, and then remain on maternity leave indefinitely by continously pumping out babies.
    That’s even better than the “work at home” arrangements some broads get in NYC. (If you like a bunch of kids…)

  7. Posted by pfluger | October 14, 2009 at 1:59 PM

    BTW, last night, I had “good motivation,” but I ended up “backfiring at a female level.”
    I ate some bad cannolis.
    -cg

  8. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    excellent, EXCELLENT tags

  9. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:00 PM

    I’m going to open a new pub down the old kent road. I’m calling it: Slags & Slores
    I miss England.

  10. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:02 PM

    I don’t get why that guy can say this but I get in trouble just mentioning that “I only hire women to blow me.” what gives?
    -fred goodwin

  11. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:08 PM

    in the poker game of life, women are the fucking rake.

  12. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    my philosophy doesn’t seem so bad right about now, does it?
    -PJ

  13. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:09 PM

    Slores gots to get paid too.
    The Slore Master

  14. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:10 PM

    BL, you’re a Rounders fan? Excellent news.

  15. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    how many times do you think CG has been sued for sexual harassment? ball park.

  16. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    Bess, I believe you incorrectly scaled that image. You’re making that fine broad look like some disfigured tramp.
    Original image: 356×499
    Scaled image: 178×250
    Your image: 128×250
    Sincerely,
    A programmer that should not be allowed on this website

  17. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:11 PM

    finally a decent picture of bess

  18. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:17 PM

    Bess,
    Your knowledge of pop culture as well as your bawdy style of writing is very appealing to me.
    The Jewser

  19. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:18 PM

    It’s not like Nichola doesn’t contribute to the negative image of female fecundity either:
    http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-417137/So-rich-just-want-slap-them.html
    “Crispin and Nichola Pease are known as the industry?s Posh and Becks. The founder of Odey Asset Management, Crispin recently bought his wife a £300,000 diamond ring.
    Unusually in WAG circles, Nichola works– she is reputed to earn £3.5m a year at JO Hambro Capital Management– but only four days a week, so she can see her three children on Fridays.”

  20. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:20 PM

    @19 holy comb over

  21. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:26 PM

    @19– so every year she takes US near equivalent of maternity leave even though she’s not knocked up.

  22. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:28 PM

    I can think of one hot piece of ass a certain UK financial services firm has on payroll.
    -Queen E

  23. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    so rbs would be worse off if it had hot chicks like the one above? challenge.

  24. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:34 PM

    Is it true that most Jewish women prefer anal sex prior to marriage and/or Hanukkah?

  25. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:35 PM

    @24is it true that your comment was a massive failure at an attempt to be funny? yes.

  26. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:37 PM

    told ya!
    -ping j

  27. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 2:39 PM

    @24, you are such an asshole.
    @20

  28. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 3:04 PM

    @23, RBS would be worse off if it had employees. Fortunately there are fewer of those every day.
    – RBS Deck Lawn Mower

  29. Posted by UBS Sucks Guy | October 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    For the record: I’d hit it.
    I’m stunned that no one called Mancision a SLORE, yesterday.
    I’m doing that now: Slore!!!!
    There, I feel so much better.

  30. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 3:22 PM

    that’s a 9 roper. easy.

  31. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 3:28 PM

    that’s a 9 roper. easy.

  32. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 4:36 PM
  33. Posted by Perkins Maxwell | October 14, 2009 at 5:02 PM

    @Anal_yst: Bess sets the tagging standard higher with each passing week. Also we need Ping here on this coast. TG needs some help at Treasury–let’s put her on the job.

  34. Posted by guest | October 14, 2009 at 8:48 PM

    I wish I had read this article years ago.
    –David Letterman

  35. Posted by dr.tenma | October 14, 2009 at 9:50 PM

    Half these lassies are unqualified anyways… please meet my SA. Dried up manage-cants, who just committee f–k and want a piece of tail to look at because going home to a fugly wife just doesn’t cut it any longer… I got their good fors dangln’
    What goes thru their wee minds??
    1)Analyst program, tight clothes, laugh at everything
    2)Flirt try to get them to remember my name
    3)Join the banks weemans network- finalizing the deal
    4)Work 2 years get knocked up take a year off
    5)Return to work fat arse in tow, still trying to make them remember my name
    6)Hope for a package (other than the one that gave me the fat arse)
    a.) ??? -or
    b.) lawsuit

  36. Posted by guest | October 15, 2009 at 5:03 AM

    @19 “This week, Armstrong International, an executive search firm, revealed that European heads of corporation finance can expect to receive up to £5m. Senior workers will get around £1m, and even juniors at major banks such as Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan and Citigroup can expect around £350,000.”
    2006, I fn miss you.

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