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We are silly. We thought "managing through crisis" meant leading the company out of a non-self-inflicted crisis with honor and courage. But when it comes to Big Banking it means manufacturing a crisis using management's very own ineptitude and greed, and then managing to use the situation to cut jobs and benefits among the rank-and-file employees, which delights the board of directors so much they manage to find millions for executive pay.

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Wait. You're a poor black man in charge of a global financial institution?

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Who the hell does his yearly job reviews and how can I get him/her/they to do mine?

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I've been screaming "HOLY FUCK" into a half-empty whiskey bottle since I read this. Okay, shit, now it's totally empty, be right back.

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Well, hello, Uncle Sugar!!

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Why, it's Carlos Danger, Third Eye!

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From CNN: <i>In a government filing Friday, JPMorgan Chase (JPM, Fortune 500) said Dimon would receive $18.5 million worth of restricted stock that will vest over the next three years as his 2013 bonus. That's up from a $10 million bonus for 2012. His $1.5 million base salary remains unchanged.</i>

Will screaming "HOLY FUCK" really loud for a few hours or a few bottles of cheap whiskey be better at this point? [asking for the entire planet]

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Look at the lineup of the directors and I conclude some of them are believers in trickle-dow-my-leg economics: <a href="http://www.jpmorganchase.co..." target="_blank">" rel="nofollow noopener" title="http://www.jpmorganchase.com/corporate/About-JPMC...">http://www.jpmorganchase.co...

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Come the revolution, it's shit like this that's going to put Mr. Dimon at the front of the line at the guillotine - with votes from the board, of course.

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