The final word - a "response" to the OP's Op-Ed piece:
Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader14-03-12
TODAY is my last day at the Empire.
'I no longer have the pride, or the belief' After almost 12 years, first as a summer intern, then in the Death Star and now in London, I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its massive, genocidal space machines. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
To put the problem in the simplest terms, throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.
The Empire is one of the galaxy's largest and most important oppressive regimes and it is too integral to galactic murder to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of Yoda College that I can no longer in good conscience point menacingly and say that I identify with what it stands for.
For more than a decade I recruited and mentored candidates, some of whom were my secret children, through our gruelling interview process. In 2006 I managed the summer intern program in detecting strange disturbances in the Force for the 80 younglings who made the cut.
I knew it was time to leave when I realised I could no longer speak to these students inside their heads and tell them what a great place this was to work.
How did we get here? The Empire changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and killing your former mentor with a light sabre. Today, if you make enough money you will be promoted into a position of influence, even if you have a disturbing lack of faith.
What are three quick ways to become a leader? a) Execute on the firm's 'axes', which is Empire-speak for persuading your clients to invest in 'prime-quality' residential building plots on Alderaan that don't exist and have not existed since we blew it up. b) 'Hunt Elephants'. In English: get your clients - some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren't - to tempt their friends to Cloud City and then betray them. c) Hand over rebel smugglers to an incredibly fat gangster.
When I was a first-year analyst I didn't know where the bathroom was, or how to tie my shoelaces telepathically. I was taught to be concerned with learning the ropes, finding out what a protocol droid was and putting my helmet on properly
so people could not see my badly damaged head.
My proudest moments in life - the pod race, being lured over to the Dark Side and winning a bronze medal for mind control ping-pong at the Midi-Chlorian Games - known as the Jedi Olympics - have all come through hard work, with no shortcuts.
The Empire today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about remote strangulation. It just doesn’t feel right to me anymore.
I hope this can be a wake-up call. Make killing people in terrifying and unstoppable ways the focal point of your business again. Without it you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much non-existent Alderaan real estate they sell. And get the culture right again, so people want to make millions of voices cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced.
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Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
But, the masses will eat it up. So, more power to him. Just know that while he's sipping champagne on his yacht, he doesn't really give a crap what happens to Goldman Sachs or YOU.
maybe ... maybe not ... you don't know him ... you like to think you do based on your own bias and cynicism ...
Ehh. Sounds like a disgruntled employee that didn't get a promotion or something who wants to leave, but has a non-compete, so he can't take his biggest clients with him (irony alert!), so goes public to get sympathy. I'd be more impressed if he announced he was giving away his Mercedes, Ferrari and the 2 "extra" houses he has (I have no idea what he has, just sayin').
There's obviously truth in what he says (but we already knew that). But, it's also 1 side of a story (the one we WANT to believe is 100% true b/c it fits our view of the world). Do we honestly believe this guy is out to save Goldman Sachs (which is the underlying theme)? And if not, what's his motive?
The one point he's clearly right about - when their clients leave, their day will be over. And, he's made a very public stance on that b/c he can't get his clients to come with him any other way. So, who's the self serving one?
But, alas, in the end, it is what it is. It's like when folks come to these forums to bid farewell.... Good riddance.
This is the closest to the motivation I can see... Had very similar reaction and thoughts.
But, the masses will eat it up. So, more power to him. Just know that while he's sipping champagne on his yacht, he doesn't really give a crap what happens to Goldman Sachs or YOU.
maybe ... maybe not ... you don't know him ... you like to think you do based on your own bias and cynicism ...
oh well ... to each their own ...
Just like you don't know the people he's talking about. You like to think you do based on your own bias and lack of cynicism.....
Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
There's obviously truth in what he says (but we already knew that). But, it's also 1 side of a story (the one we WANT to believe is 100% true b/c it fits our view of the world). Do we honestly believe this guy is out to save Goldman Sachs (which is the underlying theme)? And if not, what's his motive?
haha ... dude ... this is what you wrote ... you already admitted there is truth to what he says ...
c'mon now ... i already said in various posts that i don't know the guy and that maybe your cynicism is correct ... but at the end of the day ... what he wrote is true ... you even admitted it ...
perhaps we should delete all posts related to the new article and pretend it didn't happen.
Yeah. A bit of a hack job. I just found the Jedi Olympics funny. Who cares if you did well at the Macabbai Games? Isn't THAT a short cut? (I couldn't make the real Olympics, but I made the religiously exclusive ones.) If he put that on a resume, I'd laugh. There's nothing wrong with the Macabbai Games. My cousin bowled a 300 game in it (and he didn't stop mentioning it my whole wedding weekend, so 14 years later, we still make fun of him), and I hope my kids play in the junior ones some day.
My kids always do well at Field Day. I'll make sure they put that on their college resume to point out they took no short cuts. When it was their turn to do the fill the water bucket relay, they ran ALL THE WAY to the far line before turning back....
I just find folks that feel like they need to take their member out to prove how right their view point is not only less credible, but funny (as in laughing AT them, not WITH them).
Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
There's obviously truth in what he says (but we already knew that). But, it's also 1 side of a story (the one we WANT to believe is 100% true b/c it fits our view of the world). Do we honestly believe this guy is out to save Goldman Sachs (which is the underlying theme)? And if not, what's his motive?
haha ... dude ... this is what you wrote ... you already admitted there is truth to what he says ...
c'mon now ... i already said in various posts that i don't know the guy and that maybe your cynicism is correct ... but at the end of the day ... what he wrote is true ... you even admitted it ...
As cynical as I am, I always believe there's truth in what is said. Even if it's a small kernel. For example:
Al Gore says (sic) he invented the internet.
I fully believe the internet exists.
Sorry. The world doesn't work the way you tell it to.
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Why I am leaving the Empire, by Darth Vader14-03-12
TODAY is my last day at the Empire.
'I no longer have the pride, or the belief' After almost 12 years, first as a summer intern, then in the Death Star and now in London, I believe I have worked here long enough to understand the trajectory of its culture, its people and its massive, genocidal space machines. And I can honestly say that the environment now is as toxic and destructive as I have ever seen it.
To put the problem in the simplest terms, throttling people with your mind continues to be sidelined in the way the firm operates and thinks about making people dead.
The Empire is one of the galaxy's largest and most important oppressive regimes and it is too integral to galactic murder to continue to act this way. The firm has veered so far from the place I joined right out of Yoda College that I can no longer in good conscience point menacingly and say that I identify with what it stands for.
For more than a decade I recruited and mentored candidates, some of whom were my secret children, through our gruelling interview process. In 2006 I managed the summer intern program in detecting strange disturbances in the Force for the 80 younglings who made the cut.
I knew it was time to leave when I realised I could no longer speak to these students inside their heads and tell them what a great place this was to work.
How did we get here? The Empire changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and killing your former mentor with a light sabre. Today, if you make enough money you will be promoted into a position of influence, even if you have a disturbing lack of faith.
What are three quick ways to become a leader? a) Execute on the firm's 'axes', which is Empire-speak for persuading your clients to invest in 'prime-quality' residential building plots on Alderaan that don't exist and have not existed since we blew it up. b) 'Hunt Elephants'. In English: get your clients - some of whom are sophisticated, and some of whom aren't - to tempt their friends to Cloud City and then betray them. c) Hand over rebel smugglers to an incredibly fat gangster.
When I was a first-year analyst I didn't know where the bathroom was, or how to tie my shoelaces telepathically. I was taught to be concerned with learning the ropes, finding out what a protocol droid was and putting my helmet on properly
so people could not see my badly damaged head.
My proudest moments in life - the pod race, being lured over to the Dark Side and winning a bronze medal for mind control ping-pong at the Midi-Chlorian Games - known as the Jedi Olympics - have all come through hard work, with no shortcuts.
The Empire today has become too much about shortcuts and not enough about remote strangulation. It just doesn’t feel right to me anymore.
I hope this can be a wake-up call. Make killing people in terrifying and unstoppable ways the focal point of your business again. Without it you will not exist. Weed out the morally bankrupt people, no matter how much non-existent Alderaan real estate they sell. And get the culture right again, so people want to make millions of voices cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced.
maybe ... maybe not ... you don't know him ... you like to think you do based on your own bias and cynicism ...
oh well ... to each their own ...
copy paste?
doesn't want to open for me
Just like you don't know the people he's talking about. You like to think you do based on your own bias and lack of cynicism.....
Good idea. See above.
perhaps we should delete all posts related to the new article and pretend it didn't happen.
haha ... dude ... this is what you wrote ... you already admitted there is truth to what he says ...
c'mon now ... i already said in various posts that i don't know the guy and that maybe your cynicism is correct ... but at the end of the day ... what he wrote is true ... you even admitted it ...
Yeah. A bit of a hack job. I just found the Jedi Olympics funny. Who cares if you did well at the Macabbai Games? Isn't THAT a short cut? (I couldn't make the real Olympics, but I made the religiously exclusive ones.) If he put that on a resume, I'd laugh. There's nothing wrong with the Macabbai Games. My cousin bowled a 300 game in it (and he didn't stop mentioning it my whole wedding weekend, so 14 years later, we still make fun of him), and I hope my kids play in the junior ones some day.
My kids always do well at Field Day. I'll make sure they put that on their college resume to point out they took no short cuts. When it was their turn to do the fill the water bucket relay, they ran ALL THE WAY to the far line before turning back....
I just find folks that feel like they need to take their member out to prove how right their view point is not only less credible, but funny (as in laughing AT them, not WITH them).
As cynical as I am, I always believe there's truth in what is said. Even if it's a small kernel. For example:
Al Gore says (sic) he invented the internet.
I fully believe the internet exists.
http://www.snopes.com/quotes/internet.asp
good grief