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Why I Am Leaving Goldman Sachs
The New York Times ^ | 14March2012 | Greg Smith

Posted on 03/14/2012 3:24:26 PM PDT by qaz123

TODAY is my last day at Goldman Sachs. After almost 12 years at the firm — first as a summer intern while at Stanford, then in New York for 10 years, and now in London — I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its identity. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.

(Excerpt) Read more at nytimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society
KEYWORDS: banks; goldmansachs
He talks that if the company doesn't start getting back to taking care of its customers it won't last. Not true, Goldman Sachs will just get more taxpayer money from obama and the rest of the democrats.
1 posted on 03/14/2012 3:24:36 PM PDT by qaz123
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To: qaz123

GS is just another branch of the government.


2 posted on 03/14/2012 3:26:19 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: qaz123

“I’ve made my pelf, and I see the writing on the wall. Time to get out. So long suckas!”


3 posted on 03/14/2012 3:34:01 PM PDT by krb (Obama is a miserable failure.)
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To: qaz123

If it’s in the NY Times it is always suspect....I’ll save it for after the election.


4 posted on 03/14/2012 3:34:36 PM PDT by BilLies (Save your money until after the Presidential election.)
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To: dfwgator
GS is just another branch of the government.

There, fixed it.

5 posted on 03/14/2012 3:57:57 PM PDT by SlaveNoMore
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To: qaz123
Disgruntled employee.

What else is new?

6 posted on 03/14/2012 4:12:47 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum (Government is the religion of the sociopaths.)
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To: qaz123

The author of the book “F.I.A.S.C.O.” said much the same stuff about Morgan Stanley in the 1980s. Nothing has changed.


7 posted on 03/14/2012 4:36:57 PM PDT by M1903A1 ("We shed all that is good and virtuous for that which is shoddy and sleazy... and call it progress")
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To: dfwgator

The Government is a branch of Goldman (and the other toobigtofail banks). Chuck Schumer crawls on his knees to Lloyd Blankfein’s office—not the other way around.


8 posted on 03/14/2012 4:47:19 PM PDT by SC_Pete
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To: SC_Pete

The lines are pretty blurred nowadays.


9 posted on 03/14/2012 4:49:25 PM PDT by dfwgator (Don't wake up in a roadside ditch. Get rid of Romney.)
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To: qaz123

This can’t be good for business.


10 posted on 03/14/2012 5:24:23 PM PDT by mylife
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To: dfwgator

 "Fascism should more properly be called corporatism because it is the merger of state and corporate power."

 -- Benito Mussolini.

Are we there yet?

11 posted on 03/14/2012 6:48:01 PM PDT by LomanBill (Animals! The DemocRats blew up the windmill with an Acorn!)
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To: dfwgator

The unaccountable FED must be eliminated.


12 posted on 03/15/2012 6:07:03 AM PDT by SC_Pete
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