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11/06/09

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Okay. I worked at GS and we were treated very well. Not just the millionaires. When I worked there, it was the kind of place that employed nurses who sent every woman there confidential letters to say that you needed a mammogram, and you had to call extension 2XXX to schedule yours, which took place on the premises. I'm sure the boys got the same letters about their prostates or other boy parts.I can't see how this is a bad thing. I was working so many hours, I'd never have gone for a mammo if Mama Goldman hadn't made me do so.But carry on hating. I'm proud to be a former employee. I left ten years ago, but I will always be proud to say I worked there.Here is a little story about GS. On my first day of work, I smoked a cigarette. In my office, with the door closed; It was legal at the time. The secretary in the cubicle outside, not my secretary and not a secretary to anyone important, complained to HR that the second-hand smoke aggravated her asthma. Goldman took her complaint seriously and made me swap offices with a fellow several doors down. It was a major pain to swap both offices out, but it was done and the fellow who was moved never complained to me. It was a bit embarrassing to me, to be moved in my first week. HR called me as soon as I had resettled, to ask if all was okay and if I was upset. Nobody asks a smoker if things are okay when they are moved, but GS did. I said the only thing I could, that I was sorry to have caused so much chaos. I didn’t say what I was thinking, that two very well paid executives had been moved because a secretary complained. That would never have happened in any other place I have worked. The secretary would have been canned.

But, hey, carry on, John. #aporkalypse
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b4nt4
11/05/09

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also my little brother has swine flu now and i've had food poisoning that is 10x worse. everyone shuttup! #aporkalypse
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b4nt4
11/05/09

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i used to work for the head of a bank whose lady is a celebrity and i cant remember if it was when this whole swine flu thing began last year?? or some other flu or illness thing was going around but ALL of the pharmacies were out of cipro yet she managed to get some (and my co worker had to go hold it hostage at the duane reade until her flack came to pick it up). #aporkalypse
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pollyannacowgirl
11/05/09

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Okay, it's not fair, but H1N1 is not ebola. And there's a window between getting the jab and actual immunity, so I don't count the vaccine as being some kind of holy grail.

My family has swine flu now. It is unpleasant, but I'm able to care for three sick children and myself. It isn't pretty, but we're essentially okay.

I've been sicker with other flus, in fact. #aporkalypse
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Lymed
11/05/09

@pollyannacowgirl: I am happy that you are your family are okay. One woman from my office ended up in the hospital because of H1N1. It is not ebola, but the flu does kill people. Particularly people who have compromised immune systems and asthma. #aporkalypse
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Cagliostro
11/05/09

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As Mort Sahl once said, "The ship of state is sinking, and the rich are making sure the first class cabins are water-tight". We apparently have an unlimited capacity to be played for chumps - at least until we really run out of money. #aporkalypse
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uncivilly obedient
11/05/09

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If everyone at Goldman Sachs got sick from the flu or died, this country would collapse. #aporkalypse
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Beau Nerd
11/05/09

@uncivilly obedient: If that's the case, everyone at Golman Sachs has been sick with the flu or dead for years now. Which renders the vaccine pretty much moot. So wasteful, these bankers! #aporkalypse
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Unsolicited Advice
11/05/09

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Citigroup has been supplied with 1,200 units and Goldman with 200, says Jessica Scaperotti, press secretary for the Department of Health & Mental Hygiene. The agency has so far approved orders by 29 employers—including 16 that have yet to receive any vaccine—after they were cleared by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC). Big employers that have received or are scheduled to receive vaccine so far include Time Warner (TWX), JPMorgan Chase (JPM), Memorial Sloan-Kettering, New York Presbyterian Healthcare System, and New York University.

The biggest health risk with H1N1 is absenteeism. From work, at big companies. Babies and children will not die unless there are complications. Everyone in my family save my wife and I have had the virus, including an 8-year-old with asthma - it's easily combatted with Tamiflu.

Pulitzer-worthy post, John. #aporkalypse
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
11/05/09

@Unsolicited Advice: I'd counter that the biggest risk with H1N1 is DEATH.

Which, unless Goldman and Citi have recently taken to hiring teenagers and pregnant women exclusively, means that there is zero justification for them having, much less STOCKPILING these vaccines.

But it's not surprising that Wall Street once again has a tin ear for public relations. When the NY Fed, Goldman, Citi AND Chase get these vaccines while pregnant women wait for hours in lines, it's another great demonstration of how fucking clueless the bankers are. #aporkalypse
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Unsolicited Advice
11/05/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat:

The CDC dispensed the vaccine - there is a limited supply and they are charged with determining how to distribute it.

[www.cdc.gov]

The report John linked indicates that the vaccine is for high-value personnel within corporations. Since absenteeism is the most critical highest risk presented by H1N1, prevented large losses by inoculating executives is numerically wise. Sorry! There are federal guidelines alluded to in this memo - we should see if Goldman's receipt of vaccine is somehow abnormal rather than distorting every piece of news related to the firm in some yellow fever of mudraking rage:

[www.opm.gov] #aporkalypse
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AndPreciousLittleofThat
11/05/09

@Unsolicited Advice: Ha ha, yellow fever.
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Unsolicited Advice
11/05/09

@AndPreciousLittleofThat:

I really do try to be the funny fatalist. #aporkalypse
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