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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:10 PM Original message |
Why is media perpetuating the myth that if you dont pay big money/ bonuses- banks will lose talent? |
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anonymous171 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:11 PM Response to Original message |
1. The banking world would be better off if the greedy stupid "talent" left. nt |
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Hello_Kitty (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
2. I'm with ya. |
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Deja Q (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:13 PM Response to Original message |
3. "talent"? Try these adjectives instead: |
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BOSSHOG (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:14 PM Response to Original message |
4. The perpetuation of conservative values |
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Supersedeas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 08:15 AM Response to Reply #4 |
47. Repuke Family Values: even unsuccessful elitists deserve taxpayer funded bonuses |
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rfranklin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
5. They are repeating what they have been told... |
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msongs (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
6. business usually dump high pay staff to boost lower paid upwards - except wall street n rich |
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Lasher (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:16 PM Response to Original message |
7. Because the myth has been perpetuated loud and long for decades with little or no dissent. |
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SharonAnn (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:17 PM Response to Original message |
8. You're absolutely right. There are plenty of unemployed, qualified people available. |
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Warpy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:19 PM Response to Original message |
9. A handful of them will go offshore |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
10. If your job's salary got slashed 50% and were offered more elsewhere, would you take it? |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:48 PM Response to Reply #10 |
14. You are placing too much of a premium for talent my friend ... |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #14 |
16. Again, I'm not the one placing the premium. |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:04 PM Response to Reply #16 |
18. I would bolt faster than you would .... granted. |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:06 PM Response to Reply #18 |
19. I'm only saying the argument shouldn't be dismissed out of hand. |
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TheCoxwain (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:12 PM Response to Reply #19 |
21. NO .. my OP really questions the validity of 'talent flight' ... I am not |
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bvar22 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:34 PM Response to Reply #16 |
32. Where are they going to "bolt" to? |
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Nicholas D Wolfwood (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 07:41 AM Response to Reply #32 |
44. Addressed in post #10. |
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54anickel (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:23 PM Response to Original message |
11. Their only talent is in finding loopholes and working around the intent of the law to the point that |
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Raineyb (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:24 PM Response to Original message |
12. How talented can they be? They ran the banks into the ground |
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MadrasT (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:53 PM Response to Reply #12 |
15. +1 |
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Lugnut (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:52 PM Response to Reply #12 |
41. Exactly. |
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Hoopla Phil (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:34 PM Response to Original message |
13. Let me try to help. |
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Pharlo (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:35 PM Response to Reply #13 |
25. What you're describing here - to those of us out in 'Main Street' |
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truedelphi (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:01 PM Response to Reply #13 |
36. The situation that we are discussing is not relative too much |
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Marr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 12:58 PM Response to Original message |
17. Go to theyrule.net and you'll see why. |
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Canuckistanian (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:07 PM Response to Original message |
20. America could do without "talent" like that |
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Uncle Joe (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:15 PM Response to Original message |
22. I believe a society equating talent with greed, can be nothing but |
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rocktivity (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:17 PM Response to Original message |
23. But the execs really HAD talent |
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pansypoo53219 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:19 PM Response to Original message |
24. talent? |
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spin (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:42 PM Response to Original message |
26. The Peter Principle might apply... |
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librechik (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:45 PM Response to Original message |
27. They all want their own retention bonuses (especially becasue they are incompetent) |
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Vinca (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:47 PM Response to Original message |
28. If the bonus-receiving people were "talented," we wouldn't be in this mess. |
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Lydia Leftcoast (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:53 PM Response to Original message |
29. They should all be fired and subjected to one of the greatest reality checks there is: |
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Echo In Light (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 01:55 PM Response to Original message |
30. Because the mainstream, agenda-setting media are owned and managed by vested interests... |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:16 PM Response to Original message |
31. Because the corporate-controlled media is owned by the same persons that own... |
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2Design (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:43 PM Response to Original message |
33. yeah talent that helped them fail - like GWB - someone bails them |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
34. what "talent?" |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:01 PM Response to Reply #34 |
37. You are soooooo right! Only in neoCONjob America is greed good. |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:07 PM Response to Reply #37 |
38. it is so bizarre |
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Raster (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:48 PM Response to Reply #38 |
39. This type of fetid conundrum is only possible in a society that views corporations as... |
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Two Americas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 04:02 PM Response to Reply #39 |
42. yes |
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closeupready (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 02:46 PM Response to Original message |
35. Here's what I don't get: Air Traffic Controllers go on strike, they are promptly fired. |
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ddeclue (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 03:49 PM Response to Original message |
40. Talent? WHAT Talent? That's like saying the mid 80's Braves had "talent".. |
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ladjf (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Mon Mar-16-09 05:00 PM Response to Original message |
43. Paying them to leave would make more sense than paying them to stay. |
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tekisui (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 07:43 AM Response to Original message |
45. M$M and Greedy CEO's are one and the same. |
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ejpoeta (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Tue Mar-17-09 07:49 AM Response to Original message |
46. yeah, i got a good laugh out of that. the unemployment numbers are pretty high for that argument. |
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