Why Do People Love to Hate Goldman?

[flash9286]

You think Goldman Sachs cares about $110 million? They earned $13.4 billion in 2009.

Their change in practices probably cost them a lot more.

[loinburger]

All investment bankers do is move money. Much better to be a programmer who moves bits.

[Elok]

Loin's back! For now!

[Dry]

Jealousy and envy. People hate Goldman for the same reasons they hate the United States and, in many cases, it's the same people hating both. See the above post for evidence...

Ok, so nothing to do with being afraid of people who have power and could be able to crush/kill/ruin your life/country it you happen to be in their way and it would be their interest.
How wrong I was to think that hate usually comes from fear...

So if I hate terrorists, pedophiles, right-wing nutters and stupidity, it's because... I'm jealous...

[dannubis]

Don't try to reason with Drake when KH is around. The one has his head so far up the arse for the other that he can almost see daylight again.

[Darius871]

Oh ****, I'm sorry. People need to take responsibility for their small penis and stop blaming it on genetics. Got it.

[Japher]

I voted the first 2, but I won't argue with KH since he's obviously biased.

I personally have no problem with people paying themselves outragous salaries, even if they do very little work (by which i do not mean to imply that GS does not work a lot). Where I do have a problem is when risk is not inline return. I don't want to see people fired, but it's obvious that the livelihood of those investors is not tied to their performance (which is seemingly tied to my livelihood). This, however, is a compensation problem which is mired by contract lingo I do not care to understand because it is so wrong. Therefore, I blame the lawyers!

[MRT144]

KH is obviously winning the PR war on Goldman's image.

[KrazyHorse]

Time to go on the offensive.

Had protestors outside today.

Lazy bastards showed up after noon. Everybody's already in the building, morons.

[KrazyHorse]

dp

[Drake Tungsten]

Time to go on the offensive.

Had protestors outside today.

Lazy bastards showed up after noon. Everybody's already in the building, morons.

Maybe they're hoping to catch you when you leave the office at 11pm?

[KrazyHorse]

They went home after an hour of disorganized milling about.

[Dauphin]

I remember at the IPE/ICE when the traders beat the **** out of the protesters. You guys have lost your edge.

[Imran Siddiqui]

Drake, I have absolutely no problems with reading comprehension.

[Dauphin]

We need more of this:

WHEN 35 Greenpeace protesters stormed the International Petroleum Exchange (IPE) yesterday they had planned the operation in great detail.

What they were not prepared for was the post-prandial aggression of oil traders who kicked and punched them back on to the pavement.

“We bit off more than we could chew. They were just Cockney barrow boy spivs. Total thugs,” one protester said, rubbing his bruised skull. “I’ve never seen anyone less amenable to listening to our point of view.”

Another said: “I took on a Texan Swat team at Esso last year and they were angels compared with this lot.” Behind him, on the balcony of the pub opposite the IPE, a bleary-eyed trader, pint in hand, yelled: “Sod off, Swampy.”

Protesters conceded that mounting the operation after lunch may not have been the best plan. “The violence was instant,” Jon Beresford, 39, an electrical engineer from Nottingham, said.

“They grabbed us and started kicking and punching. Then when we were on the floor they tried to push huge filing cabinets on top of us to crush us.”

Mr Beresford said: “They followed the guys into the lobby and kept kicking and punching them there. They literally kicked them on to the pavement.”