JP Morgan building plunge victim was IT chief at bank

[MarillionFan]

You are a poor excuse for a human being.

Why are you posting on here? Plenty of toilets to be cleaned you know. Once they are sparkling you can post some more of your jet-set fantasies.

My point proved.

[BrilloPad]

My point proved.

Your usual point being that you are a walter mitty twunt.

[BoredBloke]

Autism is just an excuse for poor parenting.

My son is autistic and I consider myself to be a good parent. Shame you don't have the intelligence to understand autism before making your stupid comment.

[mudskipper]

My son is autistic and I consider myself to be a good parent. Shame you don't have the intelligence to understand autism before making your stupid comment.

No more stupid than saying it's the fault of mothers who play their babies music in the womb.

I took it as responding to one trolling comment with another.

[BoredBloke]

No more stupid than saying it's the fault of mothers who play their babies music in the womb.

I took it as responding to one trolling comment with another.

Its way more stupid - autism is a disability and as such has as much to do with bad parenting as having a child who can't walk is. I suppose the fact that he is blind is down to bad parenting also.

[mudskipper]

Its way more stupid - autism is a disability and as such has as much to do with bad parenting as having a child who can't walk is. I suppose the fact that he is blind is down to bad parenting also.

So you think playing music in the womb causes autism? Isn't that then also bad parenting?

[doodab]

So you think playing music in the womb causes autism? Isn't that then also bad parenting?

I don't see any suggestion that he agrees with what Brillo said at all TBH. It seems he's taken offence (quite reasonably) because MF has made a snide remark at Brillo (who I believe has autistic children of his own) and in doing so implied that anyone with Autistic kids is a bad parent, which is obviously going to be a sore point for those that have them.

[mudskipper]

Fair dos. But both comments are stupid - blaming pregnant mothers for playing music is just as stupid as blaming bad parenting. And Brillo doesn't have ignorance as an excuse.

[edison]

Er, back on topic rather than talking about autism....

Many of my friends did the IB contracting carousel from bank to bank from about 94/95 to the pre-Lehman's crash. In 1998 when I was on about £30k salary as a perm at a good consultancy, they were making £2,000 a week or more. I used to be in awe, partly because of the money but also I had this image of them working with really clever people on exciting projects and using the latest cutting edge technology.

It turned out that the truth was the complete opposite. My illusion was shattered and they worked with numpties, complete lack of any kind of direction or strategy, and (especially the women) had to put up with lots of crap.

I don't feel too sorry for them, several semi-retired in their early 40s; another couple I know have a penthouse in Docklands with his and hers matching Porsche 911s and so on.

One female friend used to work at Goldmans and said it was horribly sexist and appalling to work for. Trouble is the money was so good, she couldn't bear to leave. I saw her again recently for the first time in a few years and asked her if she was still there.

'No, I left, it got too much.'

'Are you still in IB?'

'Yes, I'm at JPM - it's even worse...'

So, it seems the lesson is greed is good so make the most of it but get out while you can

[MarillionFan]

Its way more stupid - autism is a disability and as such has as much to do with bad parenting as having a child who can't walk is. I suppose the fact that he is blind is down to bad parenting also.

Blindness is a physical disability. The argument that Autism is caused by bad parenting is nothing new. The Refridgerator mother theory has been around since the 1950s and is still pushed as a controversial theory today. Tony Humphreys - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia has been the latest Doctor to be villified. The thought is that cold parenting / unemotional parents can cause their children to manifest psychological issues is nothing new.