[PEN-L:30172] Re: Re: Unnecessary damage from the World Trade Center

[Louis Proyect <lnp3@xxxxxxxxx>]

> A private bus was licensed to transport people (mostly senior execs
> from the upper east side) to work (at 85 Broad Street) on Thursday.
> When the police stopped the bus, as per Giuliani's instructions, the
> 'people of GS' enlisted the police as escorts, concluding it was more
> important for police to escort GS employees to their offices than to
> focus on the rescue effort. Another GS group chartered private ferries
> to carry people from NJ into lower Manhattan.
>
> Nomi

Thank god I got the boot from Goldman-Sachs in 1988. I try to imagine
what it would be like to work at that place nowadays, with that
disgusting mix of pro-company piety and unvarnished yuppie greed. Two
years after my departure, I heard that Goldman-Sachs had canned at least
25 senior programming staff whose only offense was that their names
ended in a vowel and that they had started work there fresh out of high
school or the army. Supervising the purge of these old-timers was a
scumbag named Rick Adam whose claim to fame was that he graduated from
West Point and was a triathlete. He was intent on replacing all the
senior staff with Arthur Anderson consultants. My guess is that since
his number two man came from Arthur Anderson, some kind of graft was
involved.

One of these days somebody should write a first-rate expose on this
rotten firm, which never seemed to have gotten the bad press of places
like Salomon Brothers (another former employer of mine.) If I hadn't
dropped my subscription to the Nation Magazine long ago for creeping
Clintonitis, I probably would have dropped it for sure after they began
fawning over Jon Corzine.

The worst thing about Goldman-Sachs is that they believed their own
hype. They thought that working there had something to do with making
capital markets more efficient blah-blah rather than paying for a beach
house in the Hamptons. Nothing worse than hypocrisy when you get down to it.


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Louis Proyect
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