The tradition of having your wedding announced in the Times Sunday Style section is a long and venerated one. Not to minimize the whole finding of one’s soul mate aspect, but for many, the announcement is reason they’re getting married. So it had to have chafed pretty badly for one couple when the husband’s employer, a shop known for its intelligence but apparently not so much its sensitivity, ruined the whole thing.
Until last week, the bridegroom, 33, worked at D. E. Shaw & Company, an investment and technology development firm in New York, where he was a developer of software for trading and investing on stock exchanges.
It’s one thing to layoff ten percent of your staff but when you fuck with the Times announcement, you go too far. This could’ve waited.
I am a genius. What is unemployment?
That’s far too much integrity for Wall Street. Bridgegroom could have massaged the dates a bit to cover the bad news– unless his U5 was included in the wedding ceremony program.
WTF is this guy complaining about? Being a genius he should have known this kind of shit happens at DE Shaw all the time and it’s no big fucking deal.
What an idiot savant.
Increased NYT Wedding Section potential was one of the reasons why I considered making gf #2 into gf #1, but ultimately I couldn’t stomach the extra lbs. I’d have to deal with on a more regular basis, among other things.
You’re in a good spot if you make it to that esteemed section, but very unfortunate timing for the aforementioned ex-Shaw genius.
know how I know you’re gay?
The geeks at the Shaw shop need to goose up on EQ. And stock up markers.
- P. Jiang
Did the wedding actually take place? It’s not like he works for D.E. Shaw anymore.
Wow in less than 50 words you’ve proven yourself to be insecure, immature, morally-bankrupt, petty and nearly illiterate. Other than that…
I’ll concede that came off a bit gay but the underlying point is that the connections from the other family that would presumably get you into the NYT would be at your disposal for life. Just weighing all the factors.
Meet me at Minetta’s. I’ll be the one passing out Abacus prospectuses and looking insecure while wearing Ray-Bans and a backwards Yankees hat. Read the menu to me before you punch me in the face so I know it’s you.
I am fluent in 3 sections
In Soviet Russia, he would have always been unemployed.
-Guy trying to see if bludgeoning the horse will revive it.
The NYT will check the details, and you have no real control over what they decide to put in the announcement beyond the basic facts. That, and the frustrated journalism-school types who edit the Styles section (but would rather be in the Washington bureau or Afghanistan) probably get their jollies putting in s*** like that about Wall Street guys.
-Guy who’s been there…
STAR is loving this right now. *Meep* *whirr*
Soo … Hoo?
Guy is from Serbia, loses his job and presumably his visa, then immediately gets married to an American citizen. Coincidence?
I wanted to know DE Shaw’s trading secrets, so I grabbed one of their 5 1/4″ floppies and typed the following:
LOAD “$” ,8,1
Let me tell you firsthand, their code is impressive.
Umm… not sure the “society”/whatever connections required to get on the NYT wedding page are necessarily those that lead to a stable/normal relationship, let alone one that lasts “for life.” More likely to involve Daddy on wife #3, Mommy on live-in boyfriend #3, little sis smoking dope and making socks out of soda can rings in Bennington, VT, big brother a “performance artist” with his “companion” in San Francisco, and Grandpa downing 10 scotches a night whilst reminiscing about the good old days when insider trading was legal and they wouldn’t let Jews and Catholics into the Racquet Club.
This posting is consistent with all NYT Sunday Styles announcements, where the Times has to verify employment. There have been may other announcements, which state that “until recently or until September…” Regards, David E. Shaw
So Amelia Katherine Seewann walks into a bar and orders a chardonnay. Bartender says “why the long face?”
Is that a hairy, black flounder on the Brown Guy’s head??
wow.. I cannot believe it but the Minetta’s thing never gets old…
“where he was a developer of software for trading and investing on stock exchanges.”
Score! She got herself an unemployed nerd! That’s the NKI.
Free advertisement in the Times when looking for work is the NKI, bitches.
No. I ate it.
Good to see you were concerned about the timing of the firings too.
happy holidays. hope you found some work!
Ditto to Ginny re: posting the earlier letters for new subscribers. Alsocan you inform us who wrote the January letters?
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