{"id":7420,"date":"2012-03-14T13:51:08","date_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:51:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2012-03-14T13:52:05","modified_gmt":"2012-03-14T19:52:05","slug":"goldman-sucks-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2012\/03\/14\/goldman-sucks-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Goldman Sucks&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Senior executive at the firm Greg Smith, left Goldman<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7421\" title=\"Goldman Sachs silver logo\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-silver-logo-300x174.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"318\" height=\"184\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-silver-logo-300x174.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-silver-logo.jpg 616w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 318px) 100vw, 318px\" \/>(If it&#8217;s <em>Gold<\/em>man why Silver?)<\/p>\n<p>He quit in favor of saving his soul in an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/03\/14\/opinion\/why-i-am-leaving-goldman-sachs.html?_r=1&amp;pagewanted=all\">amazing Op-Ed<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You could say he pulled a &#8220;Jerry MaGuire&#8221; if you&#8217;d like<\/p>\n<p>But then again Jerry still loved being a sports agent, Greg<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7422\" title=\"Jerry MaGuire quitting with fish\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jerry-MaGuire-quitting-with-fish-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"141\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jerry-MaGuire-quitting-with-fish-300x134.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Jerry-MaGuire-quitting-with-fish.jpg 528w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>(Who&#8217;s with me?)<\/p>\n<p>Now pretty much says, &#8220;Fuck it&#8221;. in fact, he said all this:<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It makes me ill how callously people talk about ripping<\/p>\n<p>their clients off&#8221;, calling clients &#8220;Muppet&#8217;s&#8221; &amp; using terms<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7423\" title=\"Goldman Sachs sign copy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-sign-copy.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"213\" \/>(Oh, it was renamed)<\/p>\n<p>Like &#8220;ripping eye-balls out&#8221; &amp; &#8220;it&#8217;s all about getting paid&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But it all comes down to this for me. He makes it simple:<\/p>\n<p><em>It astounds me how little senior management gets a basic <\/em><br \/>\n<em>truth: If  clients don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t trust you they will eventually stop <\/em><br \/>\n<em>doing business with  you. It doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t matter how smart you are<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Bingo! No clients, no more business. It&#8217;s a damn valid point<\/p>\n<p>Before you even entertain any naysayers who are claiming<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-7424\" title=\"I can't believe this shit\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/I-cant-believe-this-shit.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"317\" height=\"323\" \/>(Nope, I can&#8217;t)<\/p>\n<p>He had an &#8220;axe to grind&#8221; or was &#8220;passed over&#8221;, he wasn&#8217;t<\/p>\n<p>He was very successful in his 12 years there &amp; managed<\/p>\n<p>More than a trillion dollars in assets &amp; two of the biggest<\/p>\n<p>Hedge funds around. You lost the soul of a great worker<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-7425\" title=\"Goldman Sachs funny\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-funny-252x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"319\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-funny-252x300.jpg 252w, https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/03\/Goldman-Sachs-funny.jpg 403w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 319px) 100vw, 319px\" \/>(Boom!)<\/p>\n<p>And that speaks to the decaying host more than anything<\/p>\n<p>To any financial broker out there worth a squirt, hire him<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"bolge-1268084208\" class=\"bolge-after-content bolge-entity-placement\"><ins class=\"adbladeads\" data-cid=\"44284-1271501652\" data-host=\"web.adblade.com\" data-tag-type=\"4\" data-protocol=\"https\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><br style=\"clear: both; display: block; float: none;\"\/>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Senior executive at the firm Greg Smith, left Goldman (If it&#8217;s Goldman why Silver?) He quit in favor of saving his soul in an amazing Op-Ed You could say he pulled a &#8220;Jerry MaGuire&#8221; if you&#8217;d like But then again Jerry still loved being a sports agent, Greg (Who&#8217;s with me?) Now pretty much says, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news-comedy-satire"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7435,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions\/7435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}