4-31A Singing The Hard-Hit Wall Street Worker Blues

I don’t usually cover sob stories, but this one is so touching it might make you cry. Or throw up.

It’s about some workers who toiled all last year in the caverns of New York City, only to find at year’s end that their pay was being cut by up to 50 percent. Actually, it’s not their salaries that were cut – but their bonuses. You see, these are Wall Street investment bankers whose annual salaries total only a few hundred-thousand-dollars each (poor babies), but they always expect to double or triple that in bonus money.