{"id":905,"date":"2009-02-26T10:41:57","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:41:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/?p=905"},"modified":"2009-02-26T10:41:57","modified_gmt":"2009-02-26T16:41:57","slug":"bank-on-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/2009\/02\/26\/bank-on-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Bank On It&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>What if I told you not every banker is Mr. Potter?<\/p>\n<p>You&#8217;d call me an idiot and throw scalding hot soup on me&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Maybe even give me an Elaine Benes &#8220;get out&#8221; shove&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/confront.jpg\" alt=\"confront.jpg\" height=\"189\" width=\"265\" \/>(No, seriously, get out!)<\/p>\n<p>A low key, Miami banker named Leonard Abess Jr. didn&#8217;t seek the lime-light or attention. But he&#8217;s got it now, and rightly so. Lenard owned City National Bank, which he sold it for a fortune last fall. He took a $60 million bonus, and gave it out to all 399 people who worked for him, plus another 72 who <em>used<\/em> to work for him&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/abess-banker.jpg\" alt=\"abess-banker.jpg\" height=\"221\" width=\"265\" \/>(Thumbs up indeed)<\/p>\n<p>He didn&#8217;t tell anyone and wanted to keep it private, but when the local newspaper found out, he simply said, &#8220;I knew some of these people since I was 7 years old. I didn&#8217;t feel right getting all the money myself.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>When every banker today looks more like this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/soup-nazi.jpg\" alt=\"soup-nazi.jpg\" height=\"202\" width=\"267\" \/>(No loan for <em>you<\/em>!)<\/p>\n<p>or this:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/02\/monty_burns.jpg\" alt=\"monty_burns.jpg\" height=\"331\" width=\"267\" \/>(Release the hounds!)<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s nice to know people like Lenard exist&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Times, they are a changing. So let&#8217;s raise your glasses high&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>To you Lenard, the richest guy in town!<\/p>\n<p>What do shitty bankers and Scientologists have in common? They&#8217;ll both boldly lie right to your face to cheat you out of money&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Have a day!<\/p>\n<div id=\"bolge-3136623668\" 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>What if I told you not every banker is Mr. Potter? You&#8217;d call me an idiot and throw scalding hot soup on me&#8230; Maybe even give me an Elaine Benes &#8220;get out&#8221; shove&#8230; (No, seriously, get out!) A low key, Miami banker named Leonard Abess Jr. didn&#8217;t seek the lime-light or attention. But he&#8217;s got [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-905","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\/905","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=905"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/905\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=905"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=905"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bolgernow.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=905"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}