Flat Bear Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The excuses are getting more and more rediculous. There are still posters justifying the un-justifiable with increasing outlandish reasoning. Just for fun lets help them I AM A BANKER AND DESERVE MY VERY LARGE BONUS BECAUSE........... In no more than 25 words please Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Imminent_plunge Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The excuses are getting more and more rediculous. There are still posters justifying the un-justifiable with increasing outlandish reasoning. Just for fun lets help them I AM A BANKER AND DESERVE MY VERY LARGE BONUS BECAUSE........... In no more than 25 words please Do you know the price of cocaine and lapdancers? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flat Bear Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Do you know the price of cocaine and lapdancers? Actually that's not bad, well better than the others i've read over the last day or two. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dalkent Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The excuses are getting more and more rediculous. There are still posters justifying the un-justifiable with increasing outlandish reasoning. Just for fun lets help them I AM A BANKER AND DESERVE MY VERY LARGE BONUS BECAUSE........... In no more than 25 words please Because if i don't get one i will be sad Quote Link to post Share on other sites
General Melchett Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Look, I just do, alright? If you're not a banker you're obviously too stupid to understand why, so there's no point trying to explain it to you. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Dorkins Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 ...if I don't get it I will scweam and scweam and take my talent elsewhere. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
dalkent Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 ...if I don't get it I will scweam and scweam and take my talent elsewhere. actually thats true too. Thats exactly what i will do. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Flat Bear Posted October 22, 2009 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 Look, I just do, alright? If you're not a banker you're obviously too stupid to understand why, so there's no point trying to explain it to you. Well OK. I suppose you deserve yours You've got the main thrust of their arguement being that we could not understand why they deserve it and are much too stupid to be told so we should just accept it. So very good effort with just one very important mistake. I count 27 words? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
General Melchett Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 So very good effort with just one very important mistake. I count 27 words? Bugger. OK, I dont deserve mine, then. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
seb197 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 bonus' for the sake of them irrelevent of the employees performance is clearly not correct. But when you have say a trader who made £250 billion profit for a bank in their trades then you kinda have to pay him £25 million bonus do you not? If you don't, they just go elsewhere. An extreme example, but it goes on. i don;t really see how the bonus' are the main issue really. (i don't work in a bank i am a civil servant, so you probably hate me as much LOL) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
repetitive bleats Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 actually thats true too. Thats exactly what i will do. how will we manage without you? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
THE BALD MAN Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The excuses are getting more and more rediculous. There are still posters justifying the un-justifiable with increasing outlandish reasoning. Just for fun lets help them I AM A BANKER AND DESERVE MY VERY LARGE BONUS BECAUSE........... In no more than 25 words please ......it will match the very large k**b sticking out of my head Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Imminent_plunge Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 bonus' for the sake of them irrelevent of the employees performance is clearly not correct. But when you have say a trader who made £250 billion profit for a bank in their trades then you kinda have to pay him £25 million bonus do you not? If you don't, they just go elsewhere. An extreme example, but it goes on. i don;t really see how the bonus' are the main issue really. (i don't work in a bank i am a civil servant, so you probably hate me as much LOL) If traders were truly making £250 billion profit for their banks, then why did so many need bailing out? It was all short-term, on paper - gimme, gimme, gimme. By that reckoning if a trader makes a loss, shouldn't they have to pay the bank back? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bloo Loo Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 cos my salary is "Chicken Feed" as confirmed by the Lord Mayor of London Himself. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stars Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The forum probably needs a sober, calm discussion about the natural role of banks and bankers in wealth creation - so when you sober up and calm down, start a thread about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bloo Loo Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The forum probably needs a sober, calm discussion about the natural role of banks and bankers in wealth creation - so when you sober up and calm down, start a thread about it. here it is...Banks were bust...theyve been rescued. they SHOULD be claiming JSA...Bonuses should be coming back to the bailers. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stars Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 here it is...Banks were bust...theyve been rescued. they SHOULD be claiming JSA...Bonuses should be coming back to the bailers. and so those individuals creating the new profits for the bank agree to work for nothing in the meantime? why? I share your sense of outrage, but we should have stopped this far, far earlier; when we were enrolled. We swallowed the pill and in practical terms the banks can't be stopped from deciding their wages and expenses and this was known when the dosh was doled out. The issue is purely political profiteering on the part of politicians who want to be seen as 'the people's friend' TM Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Bloo Loo Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 and so those individuals creating the new profits for the bank agree to work for nothing in the meantime? why? I share your sense of outrage, but we should have stopped this far, far earlier; when we were enrolled. We swallowed the pill and in practical terms the banks can't be stopped from deciding their wages and expenses and this was known when the dosh was doled out. The issue is purely political profiteering on the part of politicians who want to be seen as 'the people's friend' TM nah, the individuals should be on JSA. Shareholders and savers would better spend the bonuses, which are a tax avoidence scheme in themselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
thedebtisreal Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 here it is...Banks were bust...theyve been rescued. they SHOULD be claiming JSA...Bonuses should be coming back to the bailers. Quiet. No argument here. Here's the teeth grinding irony though. If banks lose people who make them money then they lose money and we never get paid back! There is no point rescuing a bank, then hobbling it so it can't compete any longer. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Gone baby gone Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 The forum probably needs a sober, calm discussion about the natural role of banks and bankers in wealth creation - so when you sober up and calm down, start a thread about it. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stars Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 nah, the individuals should be on JSA. Shareholders and savers would better spend the bonuses, which are a tax avoidence scheme in themselves. i guess the shareholders and savers trust the managment to be acting in their interests (somewhat) Quote Link to post Share on other sites
seb197 Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 If traders were truly making £250 billion profit for their banks, then why did so many need bailing out? It was all short-term, on paper - gimme, gimme, gimme. By that reckoning if a trader makes a loss, shouldn't they have to pay the bank back? sorry i made a typo. i should have put £250 Million. Not Billion. From my very limited understanding of the whole banking crisis I don't really see how the bonus' are much of an issue. THe only issue I see people have with them is the intrinsic issue they have with people getting paid a lot of money for doing a certian job. Like I said before, I do see the issue if they don't perform, but if they do, then I see no issue with paying whatever the market deems appropriate. Like i said, if a trader made his/her bank £250 million then i would suggest the ball mark figure for that trader would be a bonus of 10%... Seems only fair. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
GrillsBears Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 sorry i made a typo. i should have put £250 Million. Not Billion. From my very limited understanding of the whole banking crisis I don't really see how the bonus' are much of an issue. THe only issue I see people have with them is the intrinsic issue they have with people getting paid a lot of money for doing a certian job. Like I said before, I do see the issue if they don't perform, but if they do, then I see no issue with paying whatever the market deems appropriate. Like i said, if a trader made his/her bank £250 million then i would suggest the ball mark figure for that trader would be a bonus of 10%... Seems only fair. It's this kind of lack of vision that allows these ******wits to continue. A trader may make his bank 250 million by risking the banks money. Like at any casino a gamble may or may not pay off. However in order to incentivise the gamblers the banks offered bonuses making risk taking more attractive. The cumulative effect of all the incentives and gambles was a banking system that gambled the farm and lost. All bonuses to that point should have been re-clawed as they represented mal risk assessment. Instead of that the farm was returned to the gamblers who then decided that since the farm was not at risk under any circumstances they could gamble on whatever they wanted risk free. They then congratulated themselves by paying bonuses to reward exactly the type of behaviour that should have lost them their jobs in the first place. No banker ever has made £250 million. They have merely appropriated it through gambling. It's not productive and it skews the entire financial system. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
Stars Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 It's this kind of lack of vision that allows these ******wits to continue. A trader may make his bank 250 million by risking the banks money. Like at any casino a gamble may or may not pay off. However in order to incentivise the gamblers the banks offered bonuses making risk taking more attractive. The cumulative effect of all the incentives and gambles was a banking system that gambled the farm and lost. All bonuses to that point should have been re-clawed as they represented mal risk assessment. It doesn't explain why all bets went south at the same time. You are missing the biggest piece of the jigsaw, and that piece is related to systemic costs which have little to do with bankers themselves. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
jammo Posted October 22, 2009 Report Share Posted October 22, 2009 (edited) Do you understand derivatives? Well do you? No?? Well we don't either, but we have a special understanding of how we don't understand them, and have the capacity to think up something even better for the next time, so neeer! Look at my car. Look at it. Consider my house. Thanks, bye. Sorry, word count++ lol Edited October 22, 2009 by jammo Quote Link to post Share on other sites
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