Remember Project New BAC, i.e. Bank of America’s plan to transform itself from Ken Lewis’s house of fun, where everyone went home happy but the concept of making money was less of a focus than keeping the good times coming, to an institution that did things like post profits? The bank has said previously that PNBAC “will result in $8 billion in annual savings by 2015—$5 billion from the first phase and $3 billion from a second phase” and while it stands by those figures and remains committed to cutting as many employees as it takes, some people would like them to be a bit snappier about it.
Bank of America is accelerating a broad cost-cutting plan and has set a target of shedding 16,000 jobs by year’s end—cuts that would see the company relinquish its title as U.S. banking’s largest employer. The proposed year-end total of 260,000 would be the lowest count since 2008 and likely give Bank of America a smaller workforce than JPMorgan Chase, Citigroup, or Wells Fargo…Chief Executive Brian Moynihan is trying to speed the company’s transformation into a smaller and more efficient operation as he tries to persuade investors that expenses can be adjusted to compensate for revenue lost to new regulations, an uneven economy and shaky markets. Since becoming CEO in 2010, he has shifted away from a nationwide expansion strategy embraced by his predecessors Hugh L. McColl Jr. and Kenneth D. Lewis, and shed many of the businesses that he considers to be nonessential…Hitting the new staffing target would fulfill a year early Mr. Moynihan’s pledge to slash the bank’s workforce by approximately 30,000. “If they want to make any headway toward improving profitability,” said Sterne Agee & Leach Inc. senior banking analyst Todd Hagerman, “they need to accelerate the timeline.”
Can they do it? Stay tuned!
Call me, maybe?
-at kearney recruiting quant
BESS I SWEAR I'VE BOUGHT 4 PAIRS OF PANTS FROM THE GUY EYE FUCKING ME ALL DAY PLEASE MAKE IT STOP
But the good news is there are plenty of openings for caddies at Sherwood.
According to my findings the Bonobos guy accounts for 39%* of jokes and or comments, chart soon to come.
*this is based on a weighted average depending on word count, footnotes, and content
But where are all the 2nd tier Ivy League grads going to go?
You rang?
Dear BoA-ites,
Welcome to the 99%. Yes! :-)
-Occupier
But what will become of Charlotte?
I'm pretty confident my record of # of employees losing their jobs in record time will stand
- Fuld
THE BROS ALWAYS WINS!
BAC that ass up
Umm… not quite Fuld…
I'm in the running with it….
-Ken Lewis
Guy who bought Countrywide AND Merrill Lynch
"Set opportunity in motion"
"Around the corner, across the country, or across the globe; a career with Bank of America can take you as far as your talent and ambition will go. Our heritage spans more than 200 years of investing in the people, industries and communities we serve. And every day, we’re creating a larger opportunity that makes our future — and yours — even more promising."
http://careers.bankofamerica.com/careershome.aspx
At least somebody is happy to have them.
Dear Occupier,
Welcome back, it's been a long time.
-Every shower, ever.
Time to eject some of the not so super pods
dibs
Dear Occupier,
Please, leave us alone.
- Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V
Yes, because immediately upon getting fired they:
a) trade in their useful degrees for ones in art history
b) decide mom and dad's basement will make a pretttay cozy home for the next 10 years
Glad we cleared that up.
I will be conducting my own "Project new BAC" this weekend if anybody would like to join.
- L. Falcone
did this really need to happen RIGHT after Meredith Whitney made her comment about job losses last night?
Read my book and find out!
-E.B. White
When did the "BoA-ites" make it to the 1% exactly?
Damn right. Only GS / MS / JPM (I-bankers) are the ballers on Sell-Side who make it to the 1%.
-Goldman 1st year analyst
Right out of Top-Tier Ivy (H/Y/P)
Obvious fake:
– No decimal points in the percentage calculation
– Not specifying the breakdown between "jokes and or comments"…
– Chart delayed
– Not listing assumptions (depending on word count, footnotes, and content)
– Only one sentence
– Only one footnote
Confirmed for Penn (non-Wharton) grad with an HR internship.
Ready, fire, aim!
Your revolution is over, Mr. Occupier. Condolences. The bums lost. My advice is to do what your parents did; get a job, sir. The bums will always lose. Do you hear me, Occupier?
I bet he still uses the mouse
-2nd yr analyst
how's that new analyst program at GS working out for you? http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10000872396390443…
Watch your back, brah.
needs more love.
That's actually the old project BAC, but I'll take you up if there's Boone's Farm involved
The Ginger giveth and he taketh away.
But….but…….Brian told me if I take the fall he would pay all my bills and take me to a nice dinner and maybe a modest vacation.
Goldman Baller —
No sympathy for your neighbors in the next building over at Merrill Lynch?
Guest —
Two years of pain, then a lifetime of gain. Just a year and a half more before I move on to a sweet buy-side gig at a prestigious large-cap P.E. firm. With that I'll get prestige, job security and a big bonus.
You sir, what will you get two years from now?
Bess and DB Team,
Thanks for the Bonobos email notifying me of the current sales ect. It will probably be most helpful to the BofA employees who may need a new look for interviewing.
I'm gonna take a wild guess and say more thumbs up on DB
Challenge accepted.
fyi, lazily coupling bonobos with whatever bank/HF/person is featured in the DB article =/= funny.
Nah, I'm guessing gerbil.
R. Gere
"Useful degrees", are you talking about Classics Studies, Russian Literature, Government or any other liberal arts degrees that some of the top Hedge Fund managers have…
I am sure you are kicking ass and taking names, but do not shit on someone’s degree b/c they were not an accounting major at some POS Big East school.
Or mine!
Accounting major at a Big East school probably describes 95% of BofA's IB division.
So THAT is why my first year analyst friend told me to come see him bartend…
Bank of America sucks……..
I'm pretty sure she got back together with Mr Big.
- SJP
what a huge downer it has to be to work at a bank whose publicly articulated "strategy" is a long, slow contraction facilitated by bleeding people and assets.
Looking for the clients yachts, probably
Do you have a particular one in mind?
No, I was talking about Medieval Studies from a PAC-10 school. That's what real Wall Street titans get.
guest's comment was funny when i read it fast and thought he was talking about bleeding asses
Bushwood dumbass…
an MRS and house in the suburbs plus a vacation home that my eventually bored, unfaithful husband works like a dog year round for b/c i'm a girl. Pretty sweet deal actually. enjoy those all nighters!
inferiority complex much? compensating for something?
BofA's slow implosion is the equivalent of an economic stimulus act for boutique firms.
They use Apple computers so it's Command+C, Command+V
Guy sitting at his unemployed son's Apple Computer.
You sir, are a moron.
Funny how the elite boutiques have comparable deal flow to these hurting BBs, yet have absolutely no notoriety among the occupiers. MDs must be living the life at LAZ, Evercore, Moelis, Greenhill, etc.
Goldman Baller is a caricature right? There's no way that someone could be this big a tool.
She dies after laying her eggs. Most of them fly away but a few stay behind to keep Wilbur company.
The parasites are dying off.
That Slut !
Should start with Andrea Smith and the 5000 people in HR who don't produce a dime of revenue…then fire Anne Finucane and our worthless marketing department
Hey! We put together an training course the covers worthless marketing..
Hey!
I actually went to a University Athletic Association school, but close enough…
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