Re: man or muppet

2012-03-19 Thread Jerry Barnes
Just saw a story about the Goldman Sachs exec who quit alleging among other things that the company refers to its customers as 'muppets'. Just a promo for the release of the muppet movie. J - Ninety percent of politicians give the other ten percent a bad reputation. - Henry Kissinger

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-15 Thread Brian Thornton
http://www.vanityfair.com/online/daily/2012/03/goldman-sachs-quit-parody-pinkberry I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its personnel, and its flavor inventory. And I can honestly say today that I am really sick of frozen yogurt. On Wed, Mar 14,

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-15 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw a story about the Goldman Sachs exec who quit alleging among other things that the company refers to its customers as muppets. Strangely, that somehow seems worse than treating them as sheep to be shorn, but eh. If

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-15 Thread Dana
yeah, I liked that one too ;) NPR's Marketplace also had a lot of fun with it. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 5:23 AM, Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions ca...@uberwebsitesolutions.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw a story about the

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-15 Thread Larry C. Lyons
the intersticial music is pretty cool as well. I don't know whether anyone noticed but when Davy JOnes of the Monkees died, they played the group's music in between the articles. But they've also covered some interesting electronica. On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com

man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread Dana
Just saw a story about the Goldman Sachs exec who quit alleging among other things that the company refers to its customers as muppets. Strangely, that somehow seems worse than treating them as sheep to be shorn, but eh. If true, it's just another reason to not like them, I guess.

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread Casey Dougall - Uber Website Solutions
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 6:48 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw a story about the Goldman Sachs exec who quit alleging among other things that the company refers to its customers as muppets. Strangely, that somehow seems worse than treating them as sheep to be shorn, but eh. If

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread Brian Thornton
Are you telling me you think there i'snt some part of the population that are best described as muppets or that Goldman shouldn't refer to them that way? On Mar 14, 2012 6:48 PM, Dana dana.tier...@gmail.com wrote: Just saw a story about the Goldman Sachs exec who quit alleging among other

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread K-Sea - dvsDJTV.com
On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Brian Thornton br...@cfdeveloper.comwrote: Are you telling me you think there i'snt some part of the population that are best described as muppets or that Goldman shouldn't refer to them that way? I'm saying 99% of clients are Muppet. Just like the 99% of

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread PT
O_o alrighty then. We have been calling ours users for years and that's AOK. Muppet is the new thing for the financial peeps. It might yet catch on. On 3/14/2012 9:04 PM, K-Sea - dvsDJTV.com wrote: On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 8:40 PM, Brian Thorntonbr...@cfdeveloper.comwrote: Are you

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread Brian Thornton
This sums it up Like any good martyr, he made a sacrifice for the greater good of the company — and Wall Street. Not to mention a possible seven-figure book deal. http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=148616957 On Wed, Mar 14, 2012 at 9:27 PM, PT cft...@gmail.com wrote: O_o  

Re: man or muppet

2012-03-14 Thread Dana
oh sure, there's plenty to be said about the problems with his own behavior. For one thing -- twelve years it took him to figure this out? They lost *me* when they were shortselling stuff they were recommending to their customers. And it's kind of juvenile to slam the door on your way out like