Joyti de Laurey-if you had nicked all that money what would you have bought?

[banshee]

daft question i know! Can't believe she nearly got away with it!

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quick give me an alternative mental pic cod . cnt go to bed thinking about corporate loos

Banshee - the guy who interviewed me was just too intense.

He interspersed his questions with lots of staring at me very deliberately saying, 'you do get what I mean'!

Was all a bit much for a simple soul like me

soapbox, agree.

saw the beginning of this and then switched off... too sensationalised. even in the city, the proportion of people earning millions per year is very small. most city workers do not earn telephone number salaries/bonuses.

however, despite the protestations of equality, the city is, ime, a very sexist and class ridden place (and probably quite racist too). regardless of intelligence/ability, i doubt if it would be possible to succeed in the front office environment depicted (not the environment in which i work, btw) - unless your "face" "fitted".

so my point is - the inequality will cause resentment (understandably) and so i suppose it is understandable when individuals try to get a slice of the pie.

i find it hard to condemn her - the phrase "victimless crime" springs to mind.

Hee hee! Guess I didn't know he was talking about the skid marks in the loo-PMSL

Normally, I would agree with you like a shot on this one, BK, but bizarrely - but perhaps not given GS's reputation for charitable works etc - I know a couple of GS partners, and have had social and works dealings with about 30 of their employees. And they are all unnervingly nice 'sound' human beings. Intense and direct, but nice, and genuinely caring and interested in the world beyond.

But that amount of MONEY sloshing around could easily make you lose all perspective, I suppose.

WAFH mothers? Please explain?

work away from home i think willow.

Bk do you think there is some justification to what she did? It is still theft tho. I mean i have worKed some places where they count back the pens at the end of the day!

not sure if I have sympathy or not - at one level not - she STOLE but from the program it seemed quite possible she had some form of disorder. I wanted to know if that came up at all in court. Blu - I know it runs counter to common perception, and their portrayal in the media but investment bankers are just as likely to be nice as lots of other people. And, ime, more likely than many others to be interested in the big wide world. I know quite a few (including one at GS). And tbh, get a bit tired of hearing them demonised. Soapbox - a PA at GS gets a lot more than £25k

well, blu, you know me and i work for an equivalent institution to gs, and yes we (my firm) give a lot of money to charity... er unsure of my point now and also what yours was?! some nice people work in the city? yes we do!

i think it is possible to lose all perspective (as you said) working in that environment - as to what are normal, reasonable expectations as to wealth/standard of living... coupled with a propensity to dishonesty, and a disregard for the detail (engendered by huge wealth, let's not forget) - the temptation must be enormous.

i did say victimless crime for a reason - the amount she stole was less than peanuts to gs - no-one suffered - except perhaps in the ego.

i imagine the employees at GS did suffer a bit- certainly with regards to trustworthiness. when things like that go on at the work place everybody gets treated differently.
also the wee boy- i reckon he will suffer for the rest of his life beause of her greed

banshee, no i didn't say justification, you're right,l it was still theft, and that is wrong. but imo it is daft to pretend that what she did was as wrong as say, mugging an old lady for her pension... to me that is much worse, even though the amount of money involved is much less.

did she steal from gs or from individuals? BK where do you work or do you prefer not to say? dh works at an equivalent to gs. I also doubt very much anyone would have tried to get the £40k back off the pg girl

banshee, take my word for it, the reputational risk of something like this was relatively small - viewed from a client perspective.

no, she shouldn't have put her child in the situation where he would be deprived of both his parents - but then why is that different to any less glamorous crime?

Willow - Work Away From Home,

BK, Hatstand - I was just offering a devils advocate opposition to BK's proposition that maybe an opressive ethos fuelled resentment in Jyoti whatsername.
But not very scientifically - of course international invetmen bnking has lovely people working within it's institutions.

Sorry my typing is even worse on dp's laptop...

seemed to be the individuals working at Gs.but not sure

because of the publicity Bk. he will always be identifiable as HER child

She stole the money directly from her boss, not from the company.
BUT I think the co paid it back to him becaude one of thier employees stole it. And now the co are trying to recover the money from Jyoti's family. That was my understanding.

that makes sense Blu - I couldn't get why gs was recovering money when I thought it was her bosses private account she was stealing from

thinking about it she'd have had to have been a sight more clever to steal from the company. Virtually impossible I'm led to understand - certainly as a PA

crikey all that cartier bling and rolex watches. Bet thats why they charged the dh- as he took the Rolex as a pressie

yes, i think that's right, and he would have got gs re vicarious liability...

am i really the only one who thinks this is less bad than mugging an old lady?

just because the amounts of money involved are bigger, doesn't make this a worse crime - at least to me.

maybe not, but the ammounts are jaw dropping to an average jane like me. Most people don't come into contact with that amount of money in any circumstance except maybe buying a house