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      <title>Comments On: It&apos;s Started
    
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    <author><![CDATA[happyhedonist]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[banks have no soul.<br />
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i was put through this same bullshit several times in the early 90s when mortgage companies kept selling themselves to each other.  U.S. Bancorp to Mellon to Chase to whatever came after that - and each time, the 'extended transition period' was us, trying to keep the boat from sinking immediately when the new, lesser-paid staff of the overtaking bank took our jobs.  <br />
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to this day i have no idea why i stuck around for the 'transition periods', other than the train-wreck factor (can't look away!), but my advice to the WaMu crowd would be to stay on and be as little help as possible.  oh, and office supplies!  stock up now on your office supplies.
        
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      <![CDATA[Let me know when it starts depressing the commercial real estate market.  My office lease is up for renegotiation in March.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[The Artist Formerly Known As Sigourney Beaver]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[I spoke with one of the branch managers in San Francisco shortly after the takeover was announced.  He said layoffs were more likely to hit the east coast since that's where JP Morgan Chase has most of its workforce. One of the reasons they decided to acquire WAMU was to gain a footprint out west.  He thought most of the folks who work at WAMU branches in WA, OR and CA would keep their jobs and just wear a different uniform.  As for the upper management folks in Seattle, he couldn't say.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[jaaaaaaaaay!]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Oh, I think it was evitable.
        
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      <![CDATA[There aren't a lot of overpaid execs keeping their jobs - what, you think jpm didn't have execs of their own that they liked better?  If I had to guess I'd say around 20% of the upper few levels stuck around.  Many parts of their contracts weren't honored either, so they got screwed out of a fair amount of severance.  JPM has been very fair to the rank and file workers though.
        
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    <author><![CDATA[monkey]]></author>
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      <![CDATA[Yeah, where did Kerry K go anyway?  I'd like to send him a Christmas card.
        
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      <![CDATA[Keeping their jobs?  Probably about half, I would assume.  How many of those cut loose and land on a big pile of their already-accummulated wealth?  All of them.

Kerry Killinger has disappeared off the face of the earth with his pockets stuffed with money the taxpayers had to backfill; I don't expect the rest of the bailout execs will be much different.

Bastards.
        
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      <![CDATA[It occurs to me that the U.S. Government is involved in this merger. How many overpaid execs are keeping their jobs?
        
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