munnki
15 Oct 2009, 08:09 AM
It's nice to see what our hard earned money is being spent on (http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2009/oct/14/banking-prostitution)
City bankers entertain clients and try to generate business by offering trips to brothels, MPs heard today...
One former City worker who gave evidence to the Fawcett Society said that while working for a top international investment bank in the City, she witnessed a senior manager looking for a brothel to entertain some Russian clients. "I was out drinking with some guys in my team when a very senior guy came over," she said. "He asked if anyone knew of a good brothel in Edinburgh. He said he had some Russian clients coming over and he wanted them to sign a multimillion-pound deal."
She added that when she worked in the Tokyo office of the same company, her London-based colleagues would often bring British colleagues over to Japan for "sex trips", where they would tell the company they were introducing clients to Japanese firms, but were actually visiting a number of seedy sex clubs.
I don't mean to sound sermonizing but didn't our bailout pay the bonuses that these guys are now spending on prozzers. I'd like to think that if I want to find somebody in the 'oldest profession', I'd have the common courtesy to spend my own money on them.
City bankers entertain clients and try to generate business by offering trips to brothels, MPs heard today...
One former City worker who gave evidence to the Fawcett Society said that while working for a top international investment bank in the City, she witnessed a senior manager looking for a brothel to entertain some Russian clients. "I was out drinking with some guys in my team when a very senior guy came over," she said. "He asked if anyone knew of a good brothel in Edinburgh. He said he had some Russian clients coming over and he wanted them to sign a multimillion-pound deal."
She added that when she worked in the Tokyo office of the same company, her London-based colleagues would often bring British colleagues over to Japan for "sex trips", where they would tell the company they were introducing clients to Japanese firms, but were actually visiting a number of seedy sex clubs.
I don't mean to sound sermonizing but didn't our bailout pay the bonuses that these guys are now spending on prozzers. I'd like to think that if I want to find somebody in the 'oldest profession', I'd have the common courtesy to spend my own money on them.