Working Life

Jamie Dimon should be in jail, or at least he should be jobless. But, a different point is worth making about the damage he has caused: why would any child, growing up today, or entering the workforce, listen to any lecture about corporate ethics or “doing right” after being exposed to the farce around Dimon and JPMorgan Chase?

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Jamie Dimon’s behavior has got to be a classic melding of psychosis and smugness. And a healthy dose of “I know the system is rigged and now matter how much I fuck up, I’m not getting the axe.” And, sadly, he’s got a lot of evidence to support his smug act.

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This is running right now, with further details to come, on The Wall Street Journal web site. It’s not entirely unexpected since news on this was leaking out.

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Jamie Dimon lives a charmed life. In a normal world, he would be in jail or at least be out of a job–not earning millions of dollars in pay and benefits. Which is really a parable about the world in which we live in where nothing really changes.

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For a very long time, I’ve pointed out that the little fish get charged with crimes while the big fish get away. Drum roll please…we have another example in the House That Jamie Dimon Rules, JPMorgan Chase.

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What else needs to happen before Jamie Dimon loses his job as CEO of JP Morgan Chase? Forget putting him in jail — I’ve given that up. But, when does the litany of lawsuit and criminal investigations add up to enough reasons to boot the guy? And so here is a new reason.

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Ah, yes, this is the corporate version of “I want to spend more time with my family” because you can’t actually say a lot of people didn’t want me around. Which is the truth for David Cote and Ellen Futter.

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One of the people I have zero sympathy for — and the general public should have outright antipathy towards — is Jamie Dimon, the CEO of JPMorgan Chase. If the guy isn’t in jail, he should at least be unemployed — like the millions of people he helped put out of work courtesy of his financial shenanigans. Maybe he will actually end up on the short end, though I’m still skeptical even with the raft of investigations aimed at JP Morgan Chase.

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Well, the answer is probably no — at least so far. I’m all for the Treasury socking away some money. But, the money collected for these pathetic fines (pathetic in the big scheme) does not come close to outweighing the pain these manipulators, crooks, big-shot financiers imposed on tens of millions of people around the globe. It’s a travesty.

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Have I got a deal for you. You lose a few billion dollars at your job — but you keep your job and pocket $11.5 million. Is that a bargain or what? Of course, this is not the kind of deal for the little people. Nah.This is for the real screw-ups — the people who run the financial institutions who already destroyed an economy.

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