“No matter what we pay people, it is never enough and they always find something to complain about,”

[JanMichael]

http://finance.yahoo.com/news/This-Bonus-Season-on-Wall-St-nytimes-3737575928.html?x=0

[gratuitous]

1. Can't get around that old minimum wage, Mortimer

Turn those machines back on!

[Hassin Bin Sober]

13. Ooohhh, five dollars. Maybe I'll got to a movie - by myself.

[RUMMYisFROSTED]

21. ...after the layaway plan is finished.

[DBoon]

2. No matter how much profit they make, it is never enough...

So the investor class gets to be greedy and everyone else is supposed to stay in their place?

When was the last time THEY settled for less than the absolute maximum?

[aquart]

5. There is no absolute maximum.

Are you trying to give the rich nightmares?

[gratuitous]

14. QUIET! You want them to go Galt on us?

Whatever would we do without the wise wisdom of the sages who rule over us so wisely? We would be lost, I tell you, forever lost if we were deprived of their wisdom which they so wisely share with us.

[JVS]

17. Yes

[Marr]

18. I know! We have to make them feel confident!! Turn out your pockets and fork it over!

:D

[DBoon]

19. when do we start with human sacrifice?

If we sliced open the chest of a young warrior and tore out the still beating heart to offer it to the Capitalist gods, would that get the economy going?

[JackintheGreen]

3. Oh, please, by all means

give them something to placate them:

“we’ll throw $20,000 or $25,000 at each of the Zeros so they’re not discouraged.”

So long as it tops the annual income of 25% of American families. Fucking dickbags.

[valerief]

4. Are they talking about how Congress pays the very wealthy in tax bonuses? nt

[old mark]

6. dupe - delete.

[old mark]

7. ...or how much Congress is paid by lobbyists?

[valerief]

9. That's the Circle of Life. Lobbyists pay Congress. Congress passes bills

that favor the businesses lobbyists represent. To reinforce that circle, retired members of Congress become lobbyists, too.

[old mark]

12. and we are the taxpayers who fund it all, and get no support from anyone...nt

[valerief]

15. Hey, speak for yourself. I've got buckets full of broken promises from them!!!! nt

[old mark]

22. Well, I hope you cherish them fondly...I got a Christmas card from Bill Clinton!

(It has HIS picture on the front...is it Bill's birthday, too?)


mark

[Nikia]

8. The year that we all got $50 instead of $500-$1000 people were upset

I know that those people are a lot wealthier. In our cases, many people counted on the Christmas bonus for Christmas shopping or travel. I suppose that if some of these people spend a lot of their high earnings, they might have the same problem.

[pscot]

10. No matter how much the CEO steals

it's never enough.

[midnight]

11. I love the fact that their base pay was bumped so high that the overall compensation

from last year to this year was the same, and they lost nothing... But it is "the psychological blow of not getting a bonus"!

At Goldman, for instance, the base salary for managing directors rose to $500,000 from $300,000, while at Morgan Stanley and Credit Suisse it jumped to $400,000 from $200,000.

These lucky, lucky people ought to have to review person by person what their jobs did to remove thousands of families from their homes... Then let them explain this "psychological blow".

[Brickbat]

16. Funny, I thought it was the factory worker or locomotive engineer or copy editor or nurse who was

always complaining and whining and finding ways to cheat the company. Huh.

[MicaelS]

20. Oh please .....

While Zeros are turning up in the ranks of back-office employees and midtier bankers and traders who typically earn $250,000 to $500,000, their bosses way up the compensation ladder are still expected to notch handsome paydays in the millions.

People making $250,000 to $500,000 and they're thinking they are somehow being cheated?? God, Wall St makes me fucking sick. They exist in their own little Dark Mirror Universe, that just barely intersects with this one.