I do wonder how these bankers get to this state
A friend of mine was laid off from Lehman Brothers. Now this was cause for a bit of a panic: he'd not been there very long, and, being Russian, needed to find another job pronto which would offer him a work visa, lest he be deported back home.

This could have been really quite tragic as his girlfriend, who is Vietnamese, was due to return to the UK about the same time his visa would have run out. (They're a really lovely couple, and the idea of them being separated in this fashion seemed unbearable to the rest of us)

So what did he do? Did he get drunk and disappear? Did he take it out on his friends? Did he swallow any drugs he could find and spend an amphetamine-fuelled 24 hours onanising continuously over whatever sordid filth the interweb could provide?

No. He came to the pub that night with us, got up the following day and applied left, right and centre for any jobs similar to the one he'd just lost. Two weeks later, he'd been offered a job - by the sound of it, a better job at that, and probably more secure. And, if his luck holds out and this company doesn't fall through, he'll get to stay in this country, which is one thing he dearly wants. Perhaps this may be down to good fortune, but I suspect it owes a lot to his determination and perseverance.

Whinging bankers take note.

EDIT: And is it bad that I'm really tempted to troll the comments on that site?
(LongJohnBaldry, Wed 28 Jan 2009, 11:09, Reply)