And just in time for this QOTW...
www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-02-29/wall-street-bonus-withdrawal-means-trading-aspen-for-cheap-chex.html

Schiff, 46, is facing another kind of jam this year: Paid a lower bonus, he said the $350,000 he earns, enough to put him in the country’s top 1 percent by income, doesn’t cover his family’s private-school tuition, a Kent, Connecticut, summer rental and the upgrade they would like from their 1,200-square- foot Brooklyn duplex.

“I feel stuck,” Schiff said. “The New York that I wanted to have is still just beyond my reach.”

“People who don’t have money don’t understand the stress,” said Alan Dlugash, a partner at accounting firm Marks Paneth & Shron LLP in New York who specializes in financial planning for the wealthy. “Could you imagine what it’s like to say I got three kids in private school, I have to think about pulling them out? How do you do that?”

Won't someone please think of the poor investment bankers?
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:33, 9 replies)

can we start a collection for him?

(magictorch, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:44, closed)

I'll fetch the ming vase to keep it in.

( number5 has been fighting tramps and losing., Thu 1 Mar 2012, 14:47, closed)

The collection started last year
They raised billions from us.
(bROKEN aRROW PUA HVI Master, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:18, closed)

I contemplate their screaming, gaping mouths
every time I have a shit.
( MisterPunch did it that way on, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:02, closed)

This is a spoof,
right?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:21, closed)

Sadly, no.
It reads like The Onion, but it isn't.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:22, closed)

Oh dear.
Fire up the meat grinder!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:53, closed)

My heart bleeds for them.
Oh no, hang on. I meant: I want to murder their families in front of them while they are tied to a chair and soaked in petrol (or even gas).
I used to work with someone who got very stressed because of a property dispute over his French gite and the difficulty of finding people to rent out his investment property, what kind of horse-box trailer to buy etc. etc.

I managed to avoid killing him by tuning out whenever he started a whinge.
(Che Grimsdale Best before:, Thu 1 Mar 2012, 15:47, closed)

Yeah.
Back when I was a drafter one of the fresh-from-school junior engineers was complaining about having to pay $600 in taxes on his Christmas bonus check. He was having to pay more in taxes than I had gotten over the previous two years.

I'm still not sure how I kept myself from force feeding him his computer keyboard.
( The Resident Loon Not a demographic. Do not measure., Thu 1 Mar 2012, 16:04, closed)