Setting The Story Straight On The Merrill Bonus Rage Earlier this afternoon, CNBCâs Charlie Gasparino reported that some guy in Merrill Lynchâs fixed income research group had âinappropriately relievedâ himself in protest of the downsizing of his bonus. Merrill has officially explained that this was simply an unfortunate accident, and then the bank turned red and scurried to the other side of the room. Weâve been digging into this story because the way itâs told by the delicate souls at CNBC, itâs way to vague. What worse, the vagueness is giving rise to rumors that are totally untrue. It's fast becoming the Wall Street equivalent of an urban legends. Hereâs what didnât happen: a guy did not urinate on his desk because he was âpissed off.â The real story is so much worse. In the first place, it wasnât piss. It was shit. DealBreaker can confirm this much. After that the details get a bit fuzzy. The way we first heard it is that a guy took a dump in the rest room, stomped in it, and then dragged it all over the place by walking around with it on his shoes. Merrillâs story is that there was âan unfortunate accidentâ in one of the stallsâwhich we take to mean that some guy smeared his shit all over the bathroom because how the Hell could you miss the toiletâand that another person inadvertently stepped in it and tracked it all over. So now you know. http://www.dealbreaker.com/2008/01/like_feces_throwing_monkeys_me.php#more
It's all unfortunate to tell you the truth. The real class act would have been to been discreet by leaving and "upper decker". Those Wall Street types, so uncreative really. Good Luck!
Merrill is lucky that all of their customers that bot CCC paper that was sold as AAA rated didn't take a deuce in the lobby....