Well, this is a set-back. Anna Chapman, the only Russian spy anyone cares about, has had her British citizenship revoked, and the U.K.’s Home Secretary apparently has plans to “exclude” her from the region entirely, as it would be “conducive to the public good.” Continue reading »
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Scott Nicholson is a 24 year-old Colgate alum who’s yet to have a job since graduating college in 2008. He’s famous today not because he’s unemployed– lots of relatively recent grads are sans employment so he’s not special in that respect– but because he’s the main character in a delightful Times story about his journey to find a job that fits the mold of his dreams. The “unemployed” status, you see, is a tool of Scott’s own making. He could’ve had a job– five months ago, the Hanover Insurance Group offered him one as an associate claims adjuster in their Worcester, at $40,000 a year– but he decided to turn it down.
Rather than waste early years in dead-end work, he reasoned, he would hold out for a corporate position that would draw on his college training and put him, as he sees it, on the bottom rungs of a career ladder.
A lofty goal but as he is living at home with his parents in Grafton, Massachusetts, rent and expenses free, Scott figured he had all the time in the world to make it happen. That was until a certain couplea jerks decided to start fucking with his master plan. Continue reading »
Hey Dealbreaker!
While I don’t have a tip, I wish I did, and I think you guys can help me get on my way to getting one to help you out. I have a proposition I would like to relay to your readership: find Me a Job and I will give you my first week’s pay!
So suck it, Dick Bové, suck it, Wall Street Journal, suck it CNBC, suck it shareholder Evelyn Davis, who demanded LB resign “on Monday,” suck it anyone who even entertained the thought of a Goldman Sachs sans Blankfein. LB has “no intention of doing that,” nor is he interested in the harebrained proposal to split the CEO and chairman role, as delightful as Ms. Davis’s suggestion that role of the latter should go to “the former chairman of Sara Lee” may be. And you want to know something else? He was lying when he said he shops at Wal-Mart.
First off, let it be known that I don’t think LB should or will go anywhere. Nevertheless there are some people, some haters, talking about that very possibility. Dick Bové said it a couple weeks ago but she was on the rag at the time and not to be taken seriously. Now there’s a story out today, hopefully based on vicious lies, that there are people within in Goldman Sachs– the same people who gave Lloyd a standing ovation the other day for beating Ginger the resident chicken at tic-tac-toe– who are daring to speak of a day in which LB’s golden scrot and shining pate do not run shit at 200 West. Continue reading »
Is A London-Based Investment Banker About To Make A Few Million Pounds Off Lloyd Blankfein?
By Bess Levin
Almost three months ago, an absurd story appeared in the Wall Street Journal, which quoted an unnamed senior London-based investment banker, who’d said he’d bet a bunch of people at Davos a few million pounds that Lloyd Blankfein would be out as CEO of Goldman Sachs within two years. It was ridiculous! We thought so, Lloyd thought so, and you know Lucas van Praag thought so, having told the paper, “It is preposterous that The Wall Street Journal would even consider publishing such effluent.” On Friday, the theory was discredited even further when Dick Bové, snapping her fingers and seeing the perfect opportunity to get Ken Lewis off the couch, wrote that she doesn’t think Blankfein and CFO David Viniar will “maintain their positions in the company, and must “fall on their swords for the devastating decline in [Goldman's] persona…for public relations reasons.” All of this is bull shit, obviously. Lloyd will be doing no stepping down and not just because everything in the executive suite is already fitted to the exact measurements of his golden scrot and would be a bitch to replace. So we’ll ask this just once and then move on to more important questions, like what LB’s going to do to Messier Fantabulous once his feet touch US soil (management soliciting suggestions now). Continue reading »
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