Wednesday, August 1, 2012

Meredith Whitney’s Advice For Laid Off Wall Streeters: Don’t ask about your corner office, instead ask do you want this collated and stapled?



On Bloomberg TV this morning Meredith Whitney put it as bluntly as it gets — laid off Wall Streeters need to lower their expectations and take a pay cut. It's that simple.

Obviously this isn't what anyone wants to hear, but here's what she said word for word:
“The problem to date has been that those that have been laid off have been sitting on their couches because they do not want to take a downgrade in pay. They are not going back to work and the longer you are out of work, the more difficult it is to get a new job. My advice to them is take what you can get. It is very hard to transfer skills from a high-paying job…so recalibrate your expectations.

As if it could get worse, the famed bank analyst had more dark words for Wall Streeters on top of that. Basically, that we’re only half finished; more layoffs are coming, especially in investment banking.....


Read more: http://www.businessinsider.com/meredith-whitney-on-wall-street-compensation-2012-7#ixzz22H6j2GFV

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