“I had two things going against me. I was a reporter with a camera and I was a woman,” she says of her early days reporting live from the bedlam of the testosterone-fueled boys’ club on the exchange floor. “One day, I was standing by the General Electric post and there were maybe 25 guys within earshot when one of them who was about three times my age said, ‘Run along, little girl, and don’t come here again.’ I had knots in my stomach. I looked at him and said, ‘Don’t talk to me that way’—and I ran along! But I came back! And I kept coming back. And 20 years later, I’m still there.” [VF]
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Chirp….chirp…
and she kept giving BJs to all the old guys down there as well.
Stop…stop with Maria.
She hasn’t been of any importance, even at CNBC, for three years.
Anyone of the other CNBC staffers will tell you…done, baked.
Stop…stop with Maria.
Maria Bartiromo = Mama Barrio Riot
She better not bring that sass around the GE post at my favorite tavern.
- Guy who would never hit a woman, but would shake the shit out of one
Bess, were you received similarly upon joining Breaking Media? How about Greg?
@6 yeah, that’s a verbatim exchange between me and Carney.
Mmmmmmmm little girls
Lights on. Socks on. Bessar in the corner drawing a picture Titanic style.
Go on and get them out.
Calling her a “little” girl? No wonder everything has gone electronic.
She’s got the most annoying voice on TV, period. Next time I hear that “4PM on Wall Street, do you know where your money eeeeez?”, I’m pulling a JetBlue flight attendant number.
And she kept coming back until all the Sun and light was blocked out of the NYSE floor (by her giant can).
@10 I appreciate you.
Maria … I remember her from Red Hook
20 years on and she’s there amidst a sea of computers. Is that social progress or technological progress?
She’s still there…. and she’s probably the only one on the antiquated NYSE floor anymore.
maria does a great job…
The brooch says “I am a sophisticated business woman” while the red lipstick says “stick in my can”
@12, i totally agree, i started laughing when i read that.
@12 “my money is on her being 220lbs in a few months”
“One day, I was standing by the General Electric post and there were maybe 25 guys within earshot when one of them who was about three times my age said, ‘Run along, little girl, and don’t come here again.’ I was there that day and I distinctly recall the GE trader trying the old ‘hole in the bottom of the popcorn bucket trick’ on her. She reached in the bag, grabbed a handful, smiled and said “I been gangbanged by more people then are here on the floor, so get in line a take a number fatso”.
I can verify she delivers a great knobber
@12 just about the time Maria and her can hit the air, I switch to Fox Business. Liz Claman and Sandra Smith: no annoying voices, no huge cans. Just pure unadulterated red hot …uh.. stock news. Try it, you’ll never go back. Unless you miss Kneale.
–guy who tried it and then got hearty back slaps from traders on his floor who finally appreciated him after pulling practical jokes on him for 2 years
Man hands!
- Guy who would never paint his nails, but if he did, his hands would look just like Maria’s