Thursday, January 29, 2009

BANQUEIROS E DESEMPREGADOS


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A Chata said...

DBA = Dating a Banker Anonymous


A self-help group for women whose partners are troubled bankers

By Ravi Somaiya
Published: January 28, 2009

NEW YORK: The economic crisis came home to 27-year-old Megan Petrus early last year when her boyfriend of eight months, a derivatives trader for a major bank, proved to be more concerned about helping a laid-off colleague than comforting Petrus after her father had a heart attack.
For Christine Cameron, the recession became real when the financial analyst she had been dating for about a year would get drunk and disappear while they were out together, then accuse her the next day of being the one who had absconded
Dawn Spinner Davis, 26, a beauty writer, said the downward-trending graphs began to make sense when the man she married Nov. 1, a 28-year-old private wealth manager, stopped playing golf, once his passion. "One of his best friends told me that my job is now to keep him calm and keep him from dying at the age of 35," Davis said. "It's not what I signed up for."
They shared their sad stories the other night at an informal gathering of Dating a Banker Anonymous, a support group founded in November to help women cope with the inevitable relationship fallout from, say, the collapse of Lehman Brothers or the Dow's shedding 777 points in a single day, as it did on Sept. 29.

In addition to meeting once or twice weekly for brunch or drinks at a bar or restaurant, the group has a blog, billed as "free from the scrutiny of feminists," that invites women to join "if your monthly Bergdorf's allowance has been halved and bottle service has all but disappeared from your life."

Theirs is not the typical 12-step program.
Step 1: Slip into a dress and heels.
Step 2: Sip a cocktail and wait your turn to talk.
Step 3: Pour your heart out.
Repeat as needed.

About 30 women, generally in their mid- to late-20s, regularly post to the Web site or attend meetings.

Now, many Wall Street wives, girlfriends and, increasingly, exes, are living the curse of cutbacks in nanny hours and reservations at chic restaurants like Masa or Megu. And that credit card? Canceled.

(One such mistress wrote on the blog that when she pouted about not having been taken on a trip lately, her married man explained that with money so tight, his wife had taken to checking up on his accounts.)
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http://www.iht.com/articles/2009/01/28/business/daba.1-417368.php

5:23 PM
Rui Fonseca said...

É o outro lado da crise ou a crise do outro lado.

Penso voltar um dia destes ao assunto.

6:32 AM

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