Originally posted by scooterscot
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JP Morgan building plunge victim was IT chief at bank
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The manager of my department at the Bank of England stabbed himself to death too.
Very sad.I was an IPSE Consultative Council Member, until the BoD abolished it. I am not an IPSE Member, since they have no longer have any relevance to me, as an IT Contractor. Read my lips...I recommend QDOS for ALL your Insurance requirements (Contact me for a referral code).Comment
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Originally posted by sbakoola View PostThere are IT staff taking crap there for £25-40k day in/day out, ok they may be juniors but nevertheless still emotionally vulnerable like all human beings.
I didn't know the guy when I was there but he was there a long time and most V.P. level staff like him at JP Morgan are usually the most secure in their jobs often leading a team of workers and responsible for something that cannot be done away with easily. So I am curious to find out what was the root cause of this problem. I mean no IT job in the City is worth killing yourself over, I was never sacked or made redundant ever but I didn't care if it ever came to that - for me it would have just meant a forced change not the end of the world.
If you 'really' get to know IT staff in the city most of them hate/dislike their jobs immensely and only put up with it because of the money, they don't go their to socialize regularly or to make life long friends.
Are you saying it isn't all happy families there? Isn't that corporatespeak statement not just a bit nauseating?And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostBut according to JP Morgan's spokesperson, "we are deeply saddened to have lost a member of the JP Morgan family at 25 Bank Street today."
Are you saying it isn't all happy families there? Isn't that corporatespeak statement not just a bit nauseating?
It's a nasty, vindictive place to work.'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.Comment
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Originally posted by SantaClaus View PostHow quaint, they call themselves a "family".
It's a nasty, vindictive place to work.Originally posted by MaryPoppinsI'd still not breastfeed a naziOriginally posted by vetranUrine is quite nourishingComment
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Originally posted by scooterscot View PostGreed.
Let me explain how that works. I offer you £100k to do a job. You say no. I offer you £200k. And you say well, no. So on and so forth until I offer you £XXX you're prepared to take any crap I hand you.
Eventually the money cannot cover the underlying emotions of your actions. You feel isolated. You could walk away but that would mean leaving the money. I can't do that so the isolation now becomes entrapment. There's no way out. Or is there.
Greed.Comment
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Originally posted by SantaClaus View PostHow quaint, they call themselves a "family".
It's a nasty, vindictive place to work.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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Originally posted by Mich the Tester View PostI thought it would be. I did a few months in an IB back in 2006; it wasn't my kind of place. Apparently everyone else there was a genius. I didn't meet a single one I could call a happy genius though.
The most important thing at JP was to put in an appearance for extremely long hours to demonstate you were "married to the bank". Not surprising many of them got divorced.Last edited by SantaClaus; 29 January 2014, 10:06.'Orwell's 1984 was supposed to be a warning, not an instruction manual'. -
Nick Pickles, director of Big Brother Watch.Comment
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Originally posted by MyUserName View PostAnd this is effecting people to the point where they take their own lives? :-( that is FUBAR
You'd probably find copious amounts of mental illness throughout IB.
Ex-army chaps always seem to survive the IB without much of a problem."Never argue with stupid people, they will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience". Mark TwainComment
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Originally posted by SantaClaus View PostYep, they are just run-of-the-mill average people who think they are geniuses, some of them quite neurotic.
The most important thing at JP was to put in an appearance for extremely long hours to demonstate you were "married to the bank". Not surprising many of them got divorced.And what exactly is wrong with an "ad hominem" argument? Dodgy Agent, 16-5-2014Comment
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