WTF? Goldman bans email profanity
Posted in Uncategorized on 07/29/2010 05:52 pm by admin
Democratic Senator Carl Levin of Michigan holds a Goldman Sachs document by underlined sections in April. He lambasted the investing. firm for a series of inward emails, including one that described a transaction as ‘one shitty deal.’ (Charles Dhaparak/Associated Press)
Goldman Sachs workers are convenient wondering WTF is appropriate anymore after the New York investment border informed employees that blasphemy is no longer agreeable in electronic messages.
The bank has been verbally powerful employees that a whole host of altercation are no longer allowed to be used in coincidence, the Wall Street Journal reported Thursday. The move comes in the wake of the course essential being raked over the coals for one employee’s well-publicized use of the vocable “shitty” to recount investment deals it was selling to clients.
At a U.S. Senate judicial examination into the causes of the subprime mortgage juncture in April, regulators took issue with Goldman executive Tom Montag’s email describing a transaction the hard was working on: “Boy, that Timberwolf was one shitty behave,” the email decipher.
Michigan Democratic Sen. Carl Levin lambasted the firm for its cavalier attitude. While the focus was onward the bank’s selling of assets it knew were toxic, not its employment of profanity, the bank is since cracking down on the power that helped add to the negative publicity round it.
POV: Is your office expletive-free?