A Stamford man was robbed early Sunday morning when he told police an unknown suspect put a chemical-soaked rag over the man’s face and knocked him unconscious. The East Side resident told police he was walking home from his grandmother’s home at about 3:30 a.m. when a group of people came up from behind him near the corner of Fairfield Avenue and Selleck Street. According to Stamford Police Sgt. Paul Guzda, the man told police one of the people put the rag over his mouth and nose. Just before the man passed out, the man told police he could smell a chemical. An hour later, the man woke up and realized that he was missing some personal items, Guzda said…The man said he did not see the assailants and did not know what he had been drugged with, Guzda said. Police are investigating the incident. [Stamford Advocate]
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Confidential To Denizens Of Wall Street North: This Is Not The Way Take 2012 Compensation Into Your Own Hands
By Bess Levin
Are you employed by an organization that jumped on the Holiday Party Ban bandwagon back in ’08 and never got off, or chose to downsize what were once magical affairs where anything could happen to a bunch of people milling around in the lobby? This year, do you want all that to change? Do you want to be able to go hog wild and eat more than the one bag of chips allotted per employee? Do you want to propose paying a senior staffer for a lap dance and not have it be grounds for dismissal this time? You’ve come to the right place. Continue reading »
Why does Southern Connecticut get everything? Why does it get to lay claim to all that is great in this world? A short-list includes Steve Cohen’s Cummings Point Pleasure Dome, a guy who’ll park his car on your roof, a group of asset managers who will be more than happy to do whatever you ask, be it bury a hooker you killed or claim your lotto winnings, Cliff Asness’s doll collection, The Largest Trading Floor In The WorldTM, the No. 1 Candy Theft Prevention Team in the U.S., the Great Toilet War of ’08, Paul Tudor Jones’ Christmas Spectacular, Heights and Lights (“a 20-year Stamford tradition that features an acrobatic Santa Claus rappelling down the side of of a building on his way to a local tree lighting”) and now this? Continue reading »
In this whack-job of a trading environment, everybody needs to blow off a little steam. Some people turn to hookers, other drugs, yet others combinations thereof. Some finger paint in the park. Some steal their co-workers’ yogurts. Some shave off all their body hair. Some lock themselves in the bathroom and gorge on tube after tube of sour cream Pringles, telling themselves they’ll stop on the next one and the one after that while the Fabreeze plug-in air freshener works overtime to mask the scent of failure they don’t want their families to smell. Some head to Sears and try on Levis for two hours. Here at Dealbreaker we have no problem with you decompressing however you want. Just make sure you do it in a healthy way that’s not threatening to others. Continue reading »
UBS’s Current Financial Situation May Not Cover Metro North Tickets To Grand Central And Subway Passes Downtown
By Bess LevinUBS has ditched plans to move parts of its U.S. investment bank to downtown New York and will review its options in the wake of deep cost cuts designed to boost its flagging bottom line. UBS had been in “advanced” talks to move some of its Stamford, Connecticut-based U.S. investment bank to the World Trade Center site at the southern tip of Manhattan, according to two sources familiar with the negotiations. Those talks were suddenly called off on Thursday, the sources said on Friday…”This was due to uncertainty over (UBS’s) contraction and by how much,” said one of the sources. “UBS has been conducting a review of its real estate requirements in the Tri-State area. Part of this review involved discussions with World Trade Center management in downtown Manhattan. These discussions have been productive, but we are focused on midtown alternatives at the present time,” said a spokesperson for the Swiss-based bank. [Reuters, earlier]
Cuts are apparently a’ coming next month. Continue reading »
You’re a hedge fund manager working and living in CT, catching a 7:30 showing of Harry Potter this evening in Stamford. The tickets have been purchased, the seats selected, and the previews about to begin. You tell your wife you need to take a leak and will be back in 5. You clumsily make your way through the aisle, forcing people to turn their legs so you can fit through and get outside. But once there you don’t head toward the bathroom. Because that’s not what you actually excused yourself to do. Oh, you came outside to pull down your pants and relieve yourself alright, but in a totally different way: by shoving a box of Jujubees in them. Continue reading »
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