Clutching forks & knives to eat their bacon: 56 percent of bankers say bonuses ‘not enough’

[Amerigo Vespucci]

56 percent of bankers say bonuses ‘not enough’

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2010/12/bankers-bonuses-not-enough/

Wall Street's five biggest banks had a banner year in 2010, racking up their second-highest revenues on record, and to celebrate they put aside some $90 billion for year-end bonuses. But an informal poll suggests that more than half of the people receiving those bonuses feel they aren't getting enough.

Vanity Fair's Foster Kamer went to Wall Street and carried out an informal poll asking bank employees how they felt about their bonuses. He found that, of the 98 people surveyed, 56 percent said their bonuses were "not enough."

Sixty-one percent of those polled said they received a bonus this year, while 39 percent said they didn't. Even if all the respondents who didn't get a bonus were among those who wanted more, that still leaves about one-third of those with bonuses wanting more.

"Of the 61 percent who said they received a bonus, 85 percent were men — and just 15 percent were women. And we really tried to talk to women," Kamer writes.

[OhioChick]

1. Disgusting n/t

[msongs]

2. meanwhile govt tax codes and business laws provide them with welfare all over the place nt

[SmileyRose]

8. Sickening isn't it.

They suck the life out of the rest of the planet and then bitch about how THEY created all the wealth, are the only ones who earned it.

Chinese slave labor didn't contribute.
God and 6 million dead people in the Congo another millions dead and maimed in the middle east didn't have anything to do with cheap resources either.......

In an actual civilized world predators like that would be dealt with.

[WCGreen]

3. I just listened to that song a few minutes ago.....

[appal_jack]

4. BUT, BUT, BUT!!!

It's the public employees (and their unions where applicable, not in my state unfortunately) who are the really greedy and overpaid ones in this nation.

:sarcasm:

k&r

-app

[Zoeisright]

5. Shouldn't that read "to eat their filet mignon"?

Greedy assholes.

[Rex]

6. I don't blame them, the govt has enabled them to steal from

the treasury without any cares in the world and with a big thumbs up! Hell, they need more money! All of it!

[opihimoimoi]

7. GOP enabled the mess through persistent conniving

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[Initech]

10. Meanwhile we're prepping our pitchforks and torches.

[Anakin Skywalker]

11. Greedy corporate bastards! And the RepubliCONS want us to worship these @$$holes?

"Captains of industries" and all that sh*t!