Might as well hire them while they are there:
Conservatives like to joke they could staff government randomly from the phone book and be better off. After what I have seen from Wall Street the last couple of years, I’m pretty sure the cast of Jersey Shore could sub in for anyone there. Odds are they would have higher ethical standards and would probably do less coke.
Zifnab
My bad. At first glance I thought that was the staff of Goldman Sachs.
Chyron HR
Might as well
hirepush them while they are there.Stooleo
Cool video on some research on cheating. Asks the question, who cheats more, bankers or politicians.
h/t sully
Keith G
Don’t know those idjits. Don’t want to know those idjits.
ruemara
could care less. about cramer and these tan addicted idiots.
beltane
That is more sleaze than any single room should be forced to hold-both the traders and the actors.
Somewhat OT, but here is the ad for the teabagger jackass running against Pat Leahy http://wonkette.com/416983/vermont-senate-candidate-approves-of-drowning-children-to-make-a-point. I’ve noticed that my Republican (but not insane) neighbors do not have this guy’s sign planted on their lawn.
burnspbesq
Sorry, John, snark FAIL.
No human activity has less meaning than ringing the bell to open or close the trading day on the NYSE. It is a completely inane grip-and-grin photo op. Whatever point you’re trying to make here – which is far from obvious – you need to find a symbol with some actual symbolism attached to it.
General Stuck
Okay, who brought the bubble bath?
Violet
@Stooleo:
I guessed right on that one. Didn’t surprise me in the least.
DougJ
All kidding aside, how long til we have a “Who wants to be a Congressman?” reality show?
Will we have to wait til the 17th Amendment is repealed?
Maybe the show could be called “The Intern” and at the end of each episode an intern would mysteriously die.
Jim C
Pop culture mavens seem bound and determined to make me know who any of these fools are.
So far, I know that Snooki is the tan one, and she used to sing on Your Hit Parade.
Or something like that.
maya
Wait a minute! Didn’t Probst do a Survivor season there in 2007? I forgot who won.
John Cole
@burnspbesq: Snark will always fail with the humorless. I never said ringing the bell was important. I said “WHILE THEY ARE THERE, THEY MIGHT AS WELL HIRE THEM.”
calling all toasters
You can’t replace Cramer!!! when he says “sell” I know it’s time to buy. I wouldn’t know what to do when these morons say “sell”– it could be based on their horoscopes or some shit.
Violet
@DougJ:
Exit catchphrase: “The voters have spoken.”
Mnemosyne
@Jim C:
IIRC, she’s also the one who got punched in the face on camera by a drunk guy at a bar.
Greenhouse Guy
Hotchickswithdouchebags.com needs to blog this pic. Samurai Scrote on the left side?
Jim C
@Mnemosyne:
I wish I could say I didn’t also know that.
Alas.
DougJ
@Violet:
Excellent.
Violet
@DougJ:
You know, it might not be that bad of an idea for a show. Maybe if they showed some of what happens behind the scenes in government, more people would become interested in it.
Of course there would have to be hook ups and trips to bars and so forth or no one would watch it. But they could show some of the real work that happens.
They could call it “The War Room” to give it that special reality show sense of urgency.
debbie
Bobby Moynihan on SNL does a better Snookie than Snookie.
Amanda in the South Bay
When you’re around people from Palo Alto/Menlo Park/Atherton, WFB’s famous saying rings true. I’d rather be governed by a thousand random people from Fresno than those rich arrogant fuckers.
But what do I know, I’m an angry, bitter class warrior.
Gwangung
Don’t Republicans have enough air time?
bago
@Violet: I bring you your nightmare.
randiego
@greenhouse guy:
they’re already on it.
CalD
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So true. I really think that the baseline quality of American corporate management in general has long since reached a point that bigger companies succeed, to whatever extent that they do, in spite of their senior management teams not because of them. And we owe all to our nation’s business schools where cheating has become more commonplace than studying, the rise of the professional manger class and the cult of the MBA.
Montysano
@CalD:
I used to be a conspiracy theorist until I realized that people in high places were mostly half-bright and semi-competent (at best), and had, as dear Hunter said, the soul of a hammerhead shark. No one was pulling off any brilliantly evil plans.
Doofus
@Montysano:
Yeah, I flirted with 9/11 trutherism for a couple of weeks until I remembered we were talking about the Bush administration.
Lancelot Link
@DougJ:
They tried that in Britain already;
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MVS0E-4uYOQ#t=3m34s
Citizen_X
@Doofus: Which brings to mind Taibbi’s brilliant takedown of the Truthers. An excerpt:
Mike G
Corporate life favors aggression, unencumbered by ethics, self-awareness or any independent moral sense but finely attuned to kiss-up-kick-down heirarchy; it punishes intelligence and thought. Which is why you mostly end up with arrogant, empty-headed thugs at the top. GW Bush was not an aberration.
bob h
At least Christie is right about something- this is bad for New Jersey.
Jon H
Honestly, the Jersey Shore punks aren’t much different than the Chicago Board of Trade people I used to see when I worked in that building.