caraig | Days Like These

It's days like these, when one has been jerked around, up and down, like a puppet on strings, just for a little bread and butter, that you really start to see how Sith happens.

And so, to assuage the sweet, sweet schadenfreud....

Most of you know Lehman Brothers. Lehman Bros. filed for bankruptcy last month. They also sent out notices to their front-line, non-executive employees who were getting severence packages that those packages were being axed. Meanwhile, CEO Richard Fuld walked away with his $300 million severance package.

A few weeks ago he was exercising in the Lehman corporate gym and someone up and cold-cocked him in the face.

While I generally feel that violence is not an option, and it is inappropriate to urge or approve of violence upon another human (we're getting all too many rabblerousing and incitements to violence from certain political angles of late)... I can't bring myself to feel a whit of sympathy for this robber baron. I know that makes me a hypocrite and a bad person in some ways. =(