5000 bankers given the boot

[chef]

a far better recount

the daily mash

"Since when does the free market apply to banks? I thought it was just for sandwich shops and major international airlines.

"Now I'll have to go to the store and buy tinned food and cleaning products. Who is going to moisturise my elbows? Who is going to sponge my ass?"

[bogeyman]

What's his house worth?

A lot less than his mortgage, probably.

[Bluebird]

Is now a good time to buy a 2nd hand Porche?

[ratewhore]

headline:

Tears and hugs as 5,000 bankers in Britain told to clear their desks after Lehman falls

detail:

Senior staff, informed last night that efforts to save the firm had failed, were tasked with breaking the news that all its 5,000 workers in the UK could be out of a job

Gotta love the daily mail. They probably made the number up anyway. As for the 1,000 people working in High Wycombe - they should think themselves lucky they're not working in that dump anymore...

[stackpole]

"It's not just the high-fliers who are losing their jobs. I spoke to a receptionist and she was packing up her pens."

[Cyberman]

Those that laugh at these poor people will come to regret it in due course as what goes around comes around. Unemployment in the UK is now due to reach epidemic proportions IMO. That is no laughing matter and will affect everybody.

[TimberWolf]

Won't they all just get employed in whatever entity takes over the ashes? Rinse and repeat.

[NoddY]

Those that laugh at these poor people will come to regret it in due course as what goes around comes around. Unemployment in the UK is now due to reach epidemic proportions IMO. That is no laughing matter and will affect everybody.

Yes that's right. We had our $h!t in 2001/2.

[stackpole]

Those that laugh at these poor people will come to regret it in due course as what goes around comes around. Unemployment in the UK is now due to reach epidemic proportions IMO. That is no laughing matter and will affect everybody.

Can't be true. Gordon has put an end to boom and bust.

[bogeyman]

Those that laugh at these poor people will come to regret it in due course as what goes around comes around. Unemployment in the UK is now due to reach epidemic proportions IMO. That is no laughing matter and will affect everybody.

Yeah I know, but there's nothing like a good old bit of schadenfreude eh?