Any of them from the risk management department?



/hot like a margin call

What is wrong with you people? Can't you see that these poor thieves Wall Streeters need help?

We could push them.

But it won't involve anyone eligible for a bonus.

They could become Fark mods.

sucks people are going to lose their jobs.

But since most of their jobs could be replaced by a computer script not surprised.

Another Government Employee: But it won't involve anyone eligible for a bonus.

Actually they probably all were bonus eligible. You get rid of them before bonuses are paid so that there are fewer people to spread the pool to.

Poor job creaters.

As someone who was informed after working my ass off all Christmas weekend that our company won't be giving out time-and-a-half pay this year, I can but laugh.

Beats cryin' or punching someone.

1%ers welcome to the 99%.

Problem?

This just in: Morgan Stanley to open offices in low-cost regions, having let go of their middle- and lower- tier employees in the NYC area.

/guess where I used to work ?
/guess where my job moved?
/guess what? Once they had my replacement hired and up to speed (in middle-america) they let me go (from New York City).

kindms: But since most of their jobs could be replaced by a computer script not surprised.

At my last company during my first week of work I met a woman who worked in the data center control room but didn't monitor any systems. When I asked her what her job was, she said she synced one of the company directories with another every night to reflect changes (it was Banner syncing to Sun LDAP). I was trying to impress my boss, so I scripted the sync and scheduled it to run three times a day, which at the time was a vast improvement over waiting for this woman to run the job whenever she felt like it.

They laid her off a month later. I felt horrible, but they had apparently been trying to get rid of her for years, and my script gave them ammo for a "redundancy" layoff, which was the only real way to fire people at the company. Later I found out she would routinely "forget" to sync the directories and refused to learn to do anything else, so I felt a little better. If your entire job requires 20 minutes of work a day, you damn well better make sure you do it.

I initially mis-read the headline as "...more of them should have jumped in 2001" and thought it was a reference to 9/11.

/Would have been just as funny
//Unless its too soon?

CokeBear: I initially mis-read the headline as "...more of them should have jumped in 2001" and thought it was a reference to 9/11.

/Would have been just as funny
//Unless its too soon?

I thought the same thing, as well. Morgan Stanley lost some big offices in that.

Old enough to know better: As someone who was informed after working my ass off all Christmas weekend that our company won't be giving out time-and-a-half pay this year, I can but laugh.

Beats cryin' or punching someone.

No, punching someone would certainly be better.