Lehman Bros

Didn’t have a dime resting with these slimeballs but a friend of a friend worked there. A couple of months ago they told him (and his wife and new baby) that he was being transferred to Dubai. He had no choice, do it or be fired. Nice huh?
So this week, after they got shut down, he called back to America and they told him he was now completely on his own. They wouldn’t even pay for his plane flight back to the States. Scum. Now he is stuck in the sand with no way home. How’s that for a marriage stressor?
If you paid me a million dollars plus a year, I would never work for investment bankers, they are all jerks. They were the worst people in my finance courses, throat cutters with no remorse except to make money at someone else’s expense. They would strip the bones off their mother’s back for a buck.
And this is just the start. By this time next year, they will all be belly-​up without government bailouts. Do I seem mad? I am. Now I am going to have to pay for their 1,000,000,000,000 (that’s one thousand billion dollars by the way without interest) greed with my already over-​taxed burden.
Let em fall I say.
And don’t look for Bush to do anything. He can barely read the teleprompter anymore and I met the guy personally and used to like him so much more than I do now (Even took a picture with Laura and my best buddy Brad but my eyes were closed so I look like a nut and can’t use it. She is one beautiful lady in person I’ll tell ya). What a shame because he could have been so much better than he has turned out to be. He should have been on top of this mess 2 years ago when the housing market collapsed. Now it’s the 911/​Katrina of financial markets.
Take some money out of the stock markets, find out what Warren Buffett is doing and do the same. And buy treasury bills because it’s gonna get worse before it gets better because these politicians won’t get anything done and it will all deteriorate into a big political mess and the stocks will implode. Besides, you’ll sleep good at night instead of hiding under your bed.

This location may soon be available, if we are to believe the reports on Bloomberg this evening… sad.

When I decided to make the move to California from NYC, I went to my HR and asked for a transfer. «Sure, we have an opening in our Menlo Park office», says HR. «Fantastic! I’ll take it!», says I, not aware how freaking far Menlo Park is from San Francisco.
In New York, I worked in the North America Headquarters building on 7^th Avenue near Times Square. Now I work in a satellite office in the ‘burbs of Menlo Park. While in NYC, my building offered a 2 vending machines on every floor, a pantry stocked full of free coffee and tea on every floor, the entire 9^th floor was the employee cafeteria, the 21^st floor had a gym and a medical center for employees and right outside the front doors of our office was at least 15 restaurants directly across the street on the 49^th St, 50^th St, and 7^th Avenue sides. And my commute was 20 minutes door to door.
In Menlo Park, we have only 2 vending machines in the ENTIRE building, only one pantry with free coffee and tea, no restaurants within a mile of the office, no gym, no medical center and no employee cafeteria (except for the one that belongs to Heller Law Firm next door). And my commute is now 1 hour and 30 minutes door to door.
One good thing about my new office is that my desk is HUGE. Not like I have anything to put on it. But it is HUGE.