lol - Barclays banker Hugh McGee wants son's teacher fired for 'sleazeball' comment

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/finance/newsbysector/banksandfinance/6712738/Barclays-banker-Hugh-McGee-wants-sons-teacher-fired-for-sleazeball-comment.html


Hugh "Skip" McGee, one of Wall Street's best-paid bankers, has launched an extraordinary attack on staff at his son's exclusive private school after a teacher allegedly claimed that all investment bankers are dishonest "sleazeballs".


Mr Mcgee, who is Barclays Capital's global head of investment banking, penned a rambling five-page letter to the board of trustees of Houston's Kinkaid School, asking that the teacher and two other staff members be fired.

In the letter, Mr McGee, who is alleged to have an eight-figure salary, claims that history teacher Leslie Lovett has a "leftist invective" which "is neither accurate nor part of the approved curriculum".

The banker, who was global head of investment banking at Lehman Brothers until its collapse last year, goes on to claim that the teacher told his son John Edward's 11th-grade class "that somehow both Lehman and Barclays made a bunch of money on the Lehman bankruptcy, and that all investment bankers were 'sleazeballs' and dishonest".

His son, apparently with "tears in his eyes" went on to defend his father, saying he had been "working around the clock trying to save 11,000 jobs and that she had absolutely no idea what she was talking about".

Mr McGee now wants Ms Lovett, headmaster Donald North and upper school principal Michael Saltman, to be fired. The banker was also angered because his son, quarterback in the school's American football team, was allegedly told he and his teammates were not allowed to dress up as cheerleaders to perform a song-and-dance skit at a pre-game rally.

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The Kinkaid School issued a statement, which read: "We take concerns by each of our constituents seriously, and carefully analyse the message and the appropriate action, if any needs to be taken."
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please don't fire the truth tellers

[Craftsman]

1. Truth hurts, Sleazeball.

[mbperrin]

6. It does, doesn't it? Sleazeball seems a little soft to me.

Arrogant, overbearing, demanding, bow-down-to-me-or-die, sociopathic fuckhead seems more accurate.


Didn't get to cross-dress for a pep rally? The horror!

Tears in the eyes? Wow; thank gawd none of those who have lost everything to the pirates ever had tears in their eyes - they're too busy looking out for a better cardboard box to live in.

This is what happens when education is perceived as a product to be bought. It is a process. The payer is not part of that immediate process, but hopes to benefit in the future from a more highly educated society. The process is student and teacher.

[Nikki Stone1]

15. "Financial rapist" seems more accurate. Sleazeball is tame.

..

[lsewpershad]

17. Sleaze Ball Indeed

Watch out you don't make your child into a bigger sleaze than you are.

[redqueen]

2. Wall Street?

Did he work there, and not in the UK? His son goes to school in the UK... so it just seems odd to see him affiliated with Wall Street, since Barclays is a British company, and this happened in the UK.

[muriel_volestrangler]

13. Nah, the school's in Houston

and plays American Football. He's an American employee (no-one British would admit to a nickname of 'Skip') who got a golden lifeboat and transferred to Barclays while his old company sank behind him.

[redqueen]

14. I see...

the terms "headmaster" and "upper school principal" had me thinking this was in the UK... not familiar with those terms here.

Thanks.


As far as names... I'm not sure you're right about that... there are tons of stupid nicknames everywhere, even the UK.


All that aside... I'm disgusted at how much money this guy was paid. I don't know how those salaries are justified.

[muriel_volestrangler]

16. Oh, yeah, British people have stupid nicknames

but 'Skip' would be one that a man wouldn't drag into his public life - he'd want to leave it behind. For a start, for anyone his age, it'd be accompanied by constant references to Bush Kangeroos and remarks of "Hello, Skip! Tch-tch! What's that, Skip? Little Tommy has fallen down the abandoned mine and broken his leg? Crikey, better get the Flying Doctor, then!"

(I don't know if you're getting the cultural references, these might explain a little: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r3HkUKoGoc4 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DCHY6n907OE&feature=related

[notadmblnd]

3. a 17 yr old boy crying cause teacher dissed his daddy?

Doesn't sound right to me.

[Hekate]

8. I have a feeling things are tense at home just now. Cut the kid some slack. nt

[notadmblnd]

10. 17 yr old boys don't take their parents and what they do for work that seriously

mine doesn't take me and my job that seriously and would never cry if someone said something mean about me. He'd tell me about it, but cry about it, I think not.

I wasn't ripping on the boy, it was the situation I found amusing.

[RaleighNCDUer]

12. Not just any 17 yr old boy - the quarterback of the school's football team.

I mean, really.

[valerief]

18. How many 17 year olds go to bed hungry in America? And this clown is

crying because the teacher doesn't worship his thieving daddy. Or is it because he can't wear a short skirt and shake his pom-poms?

[roguevalley]

21. rich fucker kicking the working class again. apparently his zillions aren't

enough for him and his spawn. they have to destroy a working person or two. I hope he chokes, both of them, the sleazy scum.

[imdjh]

4. Poor baby. Daddy's a sleezebag. Bet he'll get over it.

[Toucano]

5. You have to avoid the "always" and "all" statements.

Because you can always get in trouble.

;)

[Hekate]

7. Probably not the most tactful thing to say, considering the clientele of the school...

You don't tell the boss's kid stuff like that if you want to keep your job. Just sayin'

As for this:
> His son, apparently with "tears in his eyes" went on to defend his father, saying he had been "working around the clock trying to save 11,000 jobs and that she had absolutely no idea what she was talking about".

I actually have some sympathy for the kid. He lives with a different man, so to speak, than the one the teacher reads about in the newspaper. And it's not the kid's fault.

As for this:
> Mr McGee now wants Ms Lovett, headmaster Donald North and upper school principal Michael Saltman, to be fired. The banker was also angered because his son, quarterback in the school's American football team, was allegedly told he and his teammates were not allowed to dress up as cheerleaders to perform a song-and-dance skit at a pre-game rally.

Mr McGee is going a bit far here. Working around the clock will do that to a man.

Hekate

[Botany]

9. Truth hurts?

Derivatives, Hedge Funds, and Bundled Mortgages = sleazeball

[izzybeans]

11. Seriously? Hugh.Skip.McGee.

:rofl:

What a Hugh McGee!

[dem mba]

19. people really seem to loathe investment bankers when their 401Ks are shrinking

but I don't recall any criticisms of these folks when their retirements funds were in the black. Funny how that works.

[muriel_volestrangler]

20. No, 'merchant banker' has always been rhyming slang

for 'wanker'. The loathing has been there all the time; but now it's also about their incompetence as well as their personal shortcomings.

[StrongBad]

22. Gawker has an even better (i.e. more embarrassing) article about this tool...

http://gawker.com/5415897/highest-paid-man-on-wall-street-ignites-culture-war-at-kids-prep-school

Don't miss it!