Recent content by mingsphinx

http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/06/06/us-usa-banks-jobs-idUSBRE8550RO20120606 It is going to start up all over again. More weenie bankers out of a job and with no one to turn to. :D

http://www.nj.com/business/index.ssf/2012/03/three_questions_after_a_wall_s.html After getting dumped from his Wall Street job, he becomes a handyman and his story is one of the happier endings.

http://nymag.com/news/features/wall-street-2012-2/ A nice long article.

http://www.dailyfinance.com/2012/02/07/brokerage-failures-Kaufman-WJB-ticonderoga/ Low volumes = weak revenue = layoffs :D

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/13/wall-street-bank-tech-startups_n_1200373.html Bloomberg’s idea to funnel Wall Street refugees into high tech start ups is making a comeback. The sad subtext is that outside of finance, many of these people are actually unemployable. Hence the need to...

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204331304577147750253122844.html :D

The only way some of these people can continue doing what they do is if they medicate themselves with a high octane lifestyle. Sex, drugs, booze and lots of expensive toys. Plus, after tax and cost of living, you really do not have that much even though you may be pulling in half a million a year.

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052970204368104577139060928687098.html http://www.cnbc.com/id/45868630 Someone needs to tell these idiots at Jeffries there is no point threatening to leave if everyone knows that there is nowhere for them to go to. This is yet another sign of how...

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-12-22/london-brokers-throw-in-the-towel-as-debt-crisis-hits-revenue.html The loss of habitat might just lead to a reduction in numbers :D.

http://dealbook.nytimes.com/2011/11/21/wall-st-layoffs-take-heavy-toll-on-younger-workers/?ref=business Went to the right schools, know the right people, good at what she does and she still gets fired. What kind of world do we live in? :D Time for the munchkin to grow up.

http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-22/wall-street-unoccupied-with-200-000-job-cuts.html# Good article, well worth a read.

http://money.cnn.com/2011/11/15/markets/Wall_Street_jobs/ :D

Not everyone gets to be on welfare. They actually engage in quite a bit of racial profiling at the welfare office. Plus you would need to do things like have kids out of the wedlock if you want to state to really pity you. Otherwise if you are an able bodied twenty something, the application is...

As it is, clubs and bars that hire foreigners as staff do tend to draw quite a crowd. The people are usually hired illegally, but no one cares. When they hear that someone with white skin and blond hair is serving drinks at club such and such, they make a beeline for the place just because it...

I expect the same phenomenon to occur in China. Hostesses are a big part of China's night life culture and the high end clubs will always want to be novel and different.