As you may have heard, yesterday afternoon, Morgan Stanley held a little good-bye party for John Mack, who will step down as chairman at the end of the year. What are Mack’s plans for the retirement phase of his life? Will he sail around the world? Restore old cars? Work on his golf game? Take up fly fishing? Move back down to his native North Carolina? Teach a course on business at his alma mater, Duke University? While those would all be admirable pursuits, it’s not likely Mack will have the time for them. Because John Mack, you see, has his sights set on something bigger. The realization of a dream, if you will. The dream of selling women’s shoes.
According to someone who attended yesterday’s gathering, Mack “talked about how if he hadn’t been a banker, he would have wanted to be a women’s shoe salesman. He said he loves watching the fierce New York ladies trying on Manolo Blahniks at Bergdorf Goodman–and recommends that all men go there and just sit and watch– because ladies will just walk up to you and ask you for your opinion.” In fact: “Once he told a woman, ‘Those are the ones. Get them.’ And the manager came up to him and said ‘Can you come here every day??’” Apparently Mack told people that his retirement is going to include being “a part-time salesman in the women’s shoe department at Berdorf’s.” While it’s unclear if he’s officially applied for the job yet, it goes without saying we support this wholeheartedly. Sure, there’ll be some tough days when he wonders why he got into all this (particularly when a certain Treasury Secretary looking to settle a score shows up in drag and after making Mack run back and forth fetching twenty different pairs of shoes in three different sizes, declares “You know what? I think I’m going to buy these on Zappos- don’t want to pay the NYC sales tax”), but it’ll be worth it.
Now that's a sellside lateral move that I want to know about! Any interest in some light squared shares John?
John Mack: Well, I suppose I could, uh, work in a shop of some kind, or… or do, uh, freelance, uh, selling of some sort of, uh, product. You know…
Bergdorf: A salesman?
John Mack: A salesman, like maybe in a, uh, haberdasher, or maybe like a, uh, um… a chapeau shop or something. You know, like, "Would you… what size do you wear, sir?" And then you answer me.
Bergdorf: Uh… seven and a quarter.
John Mack: "I think we have that." See, something like that I could do.
Bergdorf: Yeah… you think you'd be happy doing something like-…
John Mack: "No; we're all out. Do you wear black?" See, that sort of thing I think I could probably… muster up.
Bergdorf: Do you think you'd be happy doing that?
John Mack: Well, I don't know – wh-wh-… what're the hours?
Rex Ryan, meet John Mack. You two should get along just fine.
Lets' Rock.
- Al Bundy
And he gets a grand send off because?
-Phil Purcell
John, if you change your mind and want to start a new career in something more manly, say, losing a public office or blowing up futures brokerages, I can give you a few pointers. Call me.
J Corzine
Johnny, trust me, it's not all it's cracked up to be.
Retiring from MS to work at Payless Shoe Source is the NKI.
Does that mean if Al Bundy was not a shoe salesman he would have run Morgan?
but NYC doesn't have sales tax on clothing under $100
-Mack's sales rebuttal coach
Did you hear about the former investment banker with a lisp who took a job as a woman's shoe salesman? He got fired the first day on the job when he said to a lady, "Allow me to look up your thize….."
Al Bundy > Everything
Do they have boots in my size?
-B. Quick
Ladies shoes? Call me.
Shoes being purchased at Bergdorf Goodman are in the 300-600 dollar range. FYI.
Bundy Morgan has a nice ring to it.
Bundy & Wollensky
………..
-Mack's sales rebuttal coach
And if his wife weren't a lady-who-lunches that's into buying those shoes, she'd be a Tarp banker…. oh wait…
“Tell him to get fucked,” Mack said of Geithner. “I’m trying to sell some shoes.”
Manolos don't cost $99.99…
If I wasn't a banker, I would have been an adventurer who took an arrow in the knee.
Been there, Done That!
– John Mack
PMCO I bet he want s to sell you some FM heels
Pretty sure all heels are CFM heels. Particularly stilettos.
I had 4-1 on Intrade he'd travel the country doing Tony Shalhoub impressions
Cover your ears. You tell Mrs. Geithner to fucking blow me. I'm trying to convert an international shoe size.
Seriously? if anything, it'd be Steve Rhoades impressions. First off, he looks just like him. Second, its topical!
leaving the company to sell fuck me boots is the NKI
Come on, if anything he'd be doing Steve Rhoades Impressions. He looks just like him, AND its topical!
I wish I could give this more than one thumbs up.
Throw me the shoe-horn thrice.
-Wideclops
Awesome! Rejoins MS at $35 levers it to $68 and leaves when it hits around $16. Meanwhile collecting hundreds of millions in comp. My f'ing hero! Where are the shareholders yachts? By the way, he looks like a combo of the Soup Nazi and Monk.
Do they allow canolis in the break room at Bergdorf's? It is very important that he can win over his new colleagues with free canolis.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B48ZpNcxBL0
Penn State
Mack is no heel! Sure, he might shank bad guys financially so you have to watch your tongue. As he laces up his career and bares his sole, will he meet a Greek lady and "Buster Brown"? Will he take off in a van's security and style? He might go out instep with other leaders of his day. If the shoe fits, wear it I say. If he toes the line people won't say he was a loafer. If he meets a cute chick he won't slipper a Mickey Finn. At his physical Doc Marten said, "Bend over.." but Mack replied, "Hey, remember you're no shoe in."
He got the idea from Rex Ryan
WHy must your post always be negative?
How is saying that she wants to 'like' the post more than once negative?
You do realize that on the intensedebate commenting platform, it's not possible to give two thumbs up, which is what she would like to do, based on the hilarity of TBTF's comment, right? Or did you not?
This should have gotten more love.
Gray? is that you ?
Future Dealbreaker headline: "Bank of Tokyo-Mistubishi UFJ diversifies into designer shoes"
I misunderstood. Bess Levin articles are generally negative. Excuse me.
true MS is full of shoe and used car salesman… smells of deep country mall)
I think you will also find my experience to be useful.
John Meriwether
Now we know what makes Bess tick.
Bergdorff HR: Mr. Mack, I understand you want to work in our renowned shoe department. Do you, by chance, carry a Discover card?
Mack: Of course I do. I bought the company.
Bergdorff HR: I'm sorry Mr. Mack, our customers don't want to interact with people with a Discover card. Perhaps you should contact Sears?
Like the above one? Oh wait, except it's not and actually, many of them aren't? You're an idiot.
Comments that are funny.
You clearly do not read the site. Most articles are simply humorous, and if there's a negative aspect, like, say, a bank losing billions of dollars, that's not "Bess Levin" being negative, that's A BANK LOSES BILLIONS OF DOLLARS = SOMETHING NEGATIVE. How do you not understand the distinction?
You misunderstand a lot of things, apparently.
Mack has no idea
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