Most of you are too proud to complain about this but there’s something that’s been irking me for a while now. We’ve dancing around the subject but neither dancing nor silence get us anywhere and it’s time to speak up. You, my lovies, are being treated unfairly. Discriminated against for something you have no control over. And not for the reason many of you transvesite beauts are thinking– the chick con dick thing– but for one simple reason. Because you work on Wall Street. Because you work on Wall Street, you’re treated like second class citizens. Because you work on Wall Street, people look at you differently. Because you work on Wall Street, in the event you were to ever take the bus, people would probably give you a hard time about sitting up front. And that’s not okay! You shouldn’t be treated differently, you shouldn’t have to drink at segregated bars and you most certainly should not have to feel shame, or hide what you do for a living from non-Wall Streeters, who don’t accept your lifestyle. Because this isn’t a choice. You were born this way, and you should take pride in who you are. And I’m not the only one who thinks so.
Things had gotten entirely too annoying. First it was White House (and populist) complaints about Wall Street recklessness and greed (humongous bonuses). Now it was White House desire to attach new regulations and taxes to banks. Enough!
And so a rally was organized at lunchtime on the 23rd floor of 14 Wall Street, directly across the street from the New York Stock Exchange, in the cushy offices of John Thomas Financial, a three-year-old investment house. It was much more comfortable than, say, the street. As Thomas Belesis, the 35-year-old chief executive of John Thomas who hatched the idea, put it, “It’s cold out.” The specific purpose was to announce a nonpartisan organization called restorewallstreet.com, devoted to “bringing the pride back into Wall Street.”
Before the rally began, Mr. Belesis explained that he had begun thinking about forming this group in the last month or so as he heard “the repeating, relentless attacks on Wall Street.”
“I wanted the people who work on Wall Street to be heard,” he said.
Johnathan McHale, 30, a John Thomas broker, said he was “blown away” by the idea of the organization. But he wasn’t angry, either. “I’m too focused on raising assets,” he said. “And there’s pretty much a no-negativism policy here.”
Wayne S. Kaufman, the firm’s chief market analyst, alluded to the insulting and “infantile language” like “fat-cat bankers” emanating from President Obama.
“At the end of the day,” he said, “we’re citizens of the United States, too.”
The event didn’t quite go the way it was foreshadowed. The press alert promised a “rally with hundreds of brokers and traders.” In fact, about 30 of the attendees were from elsewhere on Wall Street. The rest were the brokers and traders at John Thomas. Since the rally was held on the firm’s 25,000-square-foot trading floor, where some 100 brokers had their desks, most of the attendees were basically working.
But we will not be disheartened. This is how these things start. Small, with only a few people brave enough to speak up. Slowly, surely, there’ll be more.
Just what we need — those guidos at the wall st equinox leading the charge.
Hmph, nobody gives me funny looks in Darien.
YES! Its time to march on city hall, to set some tires on fire, to smash windows and overturn cars.
Enough is enough.
They are going about it all WRONG!!!!
They need unionize to get any special treatment from this administration.
-Guy who hates unions and the administration
yes, brothers, yes!!!
-PJ
I could have two in my mouth and one in each hand and still be straight.
I thought this was a real story until I read 'John Thomas Financial'. You should make up broker names that sound like real institutions.
this reeks of self-righteous douche
@7 http://www.johnthomasbd.com/
fags
I get am detecting an incredibly gay homosexual vibe going on here.
-guy who detects things
@9
anyone ever tell you that you take things to literally?
It's people like that that . . . oh, fuck it. Nevermind.
The populist bullshit is tiring enough without the douchebaggery from the inside.
–Associate, Big Willie Securities
@11 detector man – wouldn't a gay homosexual vibe essentially be a straight vibe?
Don't these dweebs know that they are easier to pick off when they congregate in large groups? They need to disperse like the roaches they are, while the rest of us BSD's make this country wealthier with our charm and good looks.
What's a John Thomas Financial? Am I the only one who has never heard of this shop? Do they just hustle equities, or what?
John Thomas?
Too easy; didn't joke
@10, hag
JTF broker
hilarious
a boiler room that thinks its being referred to as a "Wall Street Fat Cat"
i like the part where no one shows up except an intern from the new york times and the Jersey Shore guidos who work there.
We want another one of these???: http://contexts.org/socimages/files/2009/02/1dub3…
WAKE UP PEOPLE, AND RISE UP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!11111111111
@14 – nope.
~not the detector man, but a fan of his work.
CEO of $5Mill PE shop who won GOP Bronx man of the year award – too scared of the cold on a relatively warm day…bring it
- Populist Mob
Always wanted to work at JT Marlin
@6, ftw
Way off topic…but I just saw that Kerry Kittles is trying to be an investment banker:
http://www.ledgemontcapital.com/people-sub.html#k…
I'm seriously waiting for Lloyd to pull one of these on the side of the WSHwy in the next few months.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CYl9nNIoz8o
You know it's going to happen – the big freak-out.
Say it loud…Crooked and Proud!
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What do we want???
BONUSES!!!!
When do we want them???
NOW!!!
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Hey, hey, SEC?
How many Ponzis did you fail to see?
Why don't you all move to a desert island somewhere to be with your own kind- or perhaps to Darien CT
30 = setting precedent for further evolution of racism. Examine your fucking motives.
Most were there becuase they heard the Wachovia cat food eater was on tour
30- if you just give me a little attribution it will be an homage, not common plagiarism.
xo, 2
We will march down Broad Street, to Stone Street, where we will proceed to get mind-numbingly intoxicated and make lewd gestures to 'outsiders' who look down-upon us. We will ah, f*ck it, when's happy hour?
procrastinators, unite! tomorrow.
@20 is correct.
31, wait- what?
@34 – Anal_yst stopping in to see the Romanians at Nebraskas?
John Thomas Financial:
"You will make nothing for the first 3 months. In the fourth month, you will become a billionaire."
@38
Nah, prolly stopping by Ulysses (I know, I know) to see my fav lil waitress piece though
Glad to see The Street is flying the rainbow flag. Send the self-hating homophobes back to Little Rock (or whatever rock they crawl out from under).
"mommy and daddy won't love you any less" tag ftw
CEO of $5Mill PE shop who won GOP Bronx man of the year award – too scared of the cold on a relatively warm day…bring it
- Populist Mob
http://www.johnthomastransportation.com
I'm not an investment banker, I'm the owner of a transportation service.
I think we're better off having Chris Farley's character from "Black Sheep" doing our lobbying…
"Hi there, this is Mike Donnelly. I work over here at the recreational center. To be honest with you I pretty much run the place ha, ha, ha. Is this ah Pat Gyles? Good, Good. Hey, hope everything's going great in your fine town of er Avery? Edward! Ha, ha, ha. Say, the reason I'm calling is I wanted to tell you a little bit about the candidacy of Al Donnelly. Al Donnelly's a guy with a dream. His dream is to become governor of this great state of Washington. Hell, every guy's got his dream, am I right? Between you, me and the wall here, I doozy myself last night. Ha ha, ha, ha. Get this: A corn-fed harvest mouse, a hooker, a nun, a Flemish peasant woman, whips, chains, whistles yo-yo's, a circus midget. My grandmother riding by on a bicycle give me the finger, and a duck! Now, I don't know ha, ha, ha. Are you crying? Oh my lord. I am sorry honey, please don't ! Could you get your daddy on the phone. No, don't hang up please I…"
God Bless Canada.
You know it's bad when no-name firms that just started with hundreds and hundreds of dollars in assets are defending Wall Street.
John Thomas?!?!?!
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