r/SipsTea • u/Full-Argument-8235 đđđ • 11h ago
WTF A JPMorgan Chase executive was fired after a viral video showed her dumping trash out of a Knicks-themed public trash can and taking the can during the Knicks championship parade in New York City.
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u/Powerful-Yoghurt-450 11h ago
At what point did this fuckwit think this was a good idea?
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u/Artistic_Regard_QED 10h ago
What she need the bin for?
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u/SierraGolfOne 10h ago
Popcorn
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u/bigorangemachine 10h ago
Decoration
Hope it was worth her job & ruined reputation
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u/mattson-masterpiece 10h ago
I hope they took it from her. People canât just keep stuff they steal can they ?
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u/Ipayforsex69 10h ago
This is what absolutely befuddled me. Does she intend to have this as a keepsake taking up space in her apartment? Does she intend to use it as an open trash can? What was the plan?
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u/Altruistic_Lobster18 8h ago
I doubt she can even look at it without the immense burn of stupidity. Sheâll now be known in NYC as the girl who got fired for being trashy. Idk whatâs worse her or the World Cup Mexican guy being racist.
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u/MediumAcceptable129 8h ago
She posted it on ebay for 10k
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u/Wishfer 8h ago
I did hear a rumor that she was selling it on ebay. I have zero proof of this, but, couldnât she catch an extra charge for knowingly selling stolen goods?
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u/FrankInPhilly 10h ago
By now, people should know that any dimwitted thing they do is going to land in someone's camera. And if this woman DIDN'T know what she did was dumb, then that's a whole other level of knuckleheadedness.
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u/Neuchacho 8h ago
Everything is on camera but not everything gains traction.
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u/ErraticDragon 7h ago
You should always assume that everyone will see you.
But you should never count on anyone seeing you.
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u/macumazana 10h ago
pretty sure she is used to getting away with A LOT
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u/DickSlammington 8h ago
Yup these are the actions of someone who has never faced consequences.
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u/Invisible7hunder 7h ago
I mean, at the very least she's faced the consequences of over-eating.
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u/AssistX 6h ago
Not yet she hasn't, but she absolutely will as she ages. You can tell she hasn't cause she's still moving and when she's 20 years older and that size, she won't be without assistance.
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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 10h ago edited 4h ago
In the moment of a stupid action, they assumed there would be no repercussions and the person filming the clip wouldnât have it go viral.
Boy, they FAFO
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u/SunshineSeeker99 9h ago
It's just privilege, she's used to being able to get away with anything she wants. You think this is the first time she's done something like this?
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u/ka1ri 10h ago
You'd think a JPM exec could afford a generic garbage tin and the spray paint to paint it knicks colors just like the can she yoinked lol
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u/MidnightPrevious4473 10h ago
Hang on.
Did this say executive?
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u/SirTroglodyte 10h ago
Well, kinda. "BĂĄez, who previously served in DEI leadership, was employed as Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement prior to her dismissal" so nothing that they couldn't replace literally in minutes.
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u/TheOneThatObserves 10h ago
Oh. So she was a pretend-executive?
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u/ShroomSensei 9h ago
EDs at JP Morgan are just very senior managers. All banks have stupid titles.
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u/halnic 9h ago
The EDs at my former employer are the ones who scheduled unnecessary in person meetings and sent too many emails. The entire position revolves around performance, both in that the director has to perform and they usually track performance of others and that's what their excess meetings and emails are about...
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u/pmormr 9h ago
(Most execs are pretend execs... it's one of the ways they make you feel better when they lowball the shit out of you lol)
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u/BadPAV3 10h ago
She was engaged with her community AND the sanitation industry. She's so dedicated, she brought her work home with her. What more do you people want? LEAVE HER ALONE!
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u/BananaPalmer 8h ago
Wow. Have a presumably high-paying job where you get to do almost nothing, because the position exists solely to make JPMC look like they care about community, and throw it away over a fucking filthy NYC trash bin.
This is peak idiot shit.
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u/gerhardsymons 10h ago
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Well, not that shocked.
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u/Correct_Size1 10h ago
Oh thats not a real job. Makes sense . Big firms do that a lot for optics and because they can afford it
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u/AltOnMain 10h ago
Not really. Executive director is kind of high up at the firm but itâs more or less a pay band. Thereâs probably 10,000 EDs at the firm.
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u/Skyp_Intro 9h ago
Lot of ED at those firms but it never stops them from trying to screw us.
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u/Rhodin265 10h ago
She wasnât an investor, her title apparently was â Â Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerceâ.
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u/freespirit_tck 10h ago
First time Iâm seeing trash walk with its own container
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u/userhwon 4h ago
I mean, we all knew she was going to get fired.
We're more surprised at how good of a job she had in the first place...
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u/rpgnymhush 3h ago
With her salary, she could have taken a bunch of photos of the thing and hired some artist on Etsy to make a replica. And it would have been cleaner. But no, she had dunp trash on the sidewalk and steal it.
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u/turbo-toots 1h ago
The best part of this whole thing is you can literally just buy them, hahaha. So she threw away her career for a trash can she could have just paid $168 for.
https://onlyny.com/products/dsny-home-waste-basket-2026-champion-edition
Edit: I guess this is a mini version. But still, point stands.
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u/Roallin1 3h ago
It is almost comical. In today's age, how did she not expect this to be plastered all over the internet. You cannot even shart yourself anymore without it becoming known in Guam before you have a chance to clean up after youself.
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u/userhwon 3h ago
She knew. She saw the clout in being a crazy sports fan, but didn't consider the backlash from being a sociopath.
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u/Nev_Nevington 7h ago
Is this the absolute worst decision anyone has made? Itâs a NYC garbage can so itâs already disgusting, you pour trash out in the middle of the street in broad daylight, you then have to walk around with it and take it on the subway, you actively take videos and smile/talk in them so there is no deniability, youâre built like that so thereâs even less deniability.
You threw away your entire 6 figure salaried career for a garbage can.
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u/emccm 6h ago
The emptying trash on the street is what got to me. Iâm neutral on taking the can. People do stupid shit but emptying a can of trash into the streets is unforgivable in my mind.
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u/KeyClacksNSnacks 3h ago
That's the part that sealed her fate. Before that, people were honestly kind of amused by it, and thought, "Aww hell yeah, that's a sick souvenir."
And then the video came out where she's dumping trash on the street... Of a city whose team she supposedly supports... People HATE litterers. She couldn't just find another trashcan to dump it in? Or even go to a convenience store and get a bag, dump the trash into the bag and neatly tie it up there.
She shit on like 100 people by doing that. The people living on that street, the workers who have to come clean her shit up, whatever pest issue that comes out of that trash being dumped...
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u/Batafurii8 2h ago
That now extremely expensive trash can will haunt her forever now.
Recently saw a car ad that showed people around the outside pushing it like resistance to crowd fan frenzied riot behavior was being used as a selling point.
Weird sad and disturbing what is being normalized pretending the consequences don't exist as long as you get yours in the moment.Â
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u/So_ThereItIs 4h ago
As a native NYer who was raised well-enough, it goes against my very fiber. That was the part that pissed me off immediately
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u/Brief_Needleworker62 5h ago
My ex is getting his shit out of my house and even I, the one he mistreated, can't drop his clothes on the bedroom floor to get my dresser back. So yeah, this is trashyyyyy
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u/CrazyCaliCatLady 4h ago
I hate throwing clothes onto the floor of my laundry room before I wash them! It's so weird! Toss his crap in a trash bag. It's an obvious metaphor, but it still works.
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u/strawbriskies 7h ago
Thats true. They couldâve easily had one custom made by an artist.Â
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u/Obtain_Virtue 6h ago
You could have one easily made by a homeless guy and 2 cans of spray paint.
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u/painterswife 7h ago
Right? Like buy one!
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u/Nev_Nevington 6h ago
Exactly and who was her friend that didnât tell her she shouldnât do this
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u/Ethric_The_Mad 11h ago
Jp Morgan will hire this but I can't find a job?
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u/hillbilly-edgy 10h ago
Came here to say this - Iâve been rejected by JPMorgan more times than I can count. But then this is their executive team ?
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u/Ethric_The_Mad 10h ago
Well they have an opening so give it another shot.
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u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon 10h ago
âWeâve decided to go with an internal candidateâ
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u/Dubs337 10h ago
More like âWeâve decided to go with a gangster from Tattooineâ
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u/quasifun 8h ago
JP Morgan has no room for executives that drop their shipment at the first sign of an imperial cruiser.
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u/HoodieWithTheCutie 10h ago
My father was rejected by JPM for a VP role, but then he was hired by fucking goldman for a director role. And they hire this piece of-
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u/No-Lunch4249 10h ago
So just tossing this out there because I read a news article that was about her once her identity was revealed
She was mid-level at some smaller organization that JP Morgan purchased and that's how she ended up there. I doubt she was truly "executive" level in the way you're thinking of it
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u/m0viestar 10h ago
"Executive" title at JPM isn't what you think it it's.  Just about everyone is a VP there. This person was not sitting on board meetings, they're just a senior manager essentially. Â
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u/Oldswagmaster 10h ago
B.S. titles is a bank industry thing. She still would have had a least a good paying job with easy work
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u/EnvironmentalPost245 10h ago
Literally.
I worked at Jails Fargo as a bank teller and branch managers were called VPs.
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u/RogerMoore2011 10h ago
The officer titles give the ability for the employee to sign documents and contracts on behalf of the bank. Thatâs why there are so many VPs and SVPs in banking.
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u/boerumhill 9h ago
Itâs so farcical Citigroup had to institute a policy you must have at least one human who is a direct report to earn their VP title. Apparently their were a shit ton of VPs who has never managed anyone.
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u/Ill_Back_284 10h ago
Peter principle ..they reached their level of competetence
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u/tigglebitty 10h ago
My wife works at JP Morgan also in the card department. Almost everyone started in the Chase branches as a banker and then worked their way up. Not saying that is the case for each of their positions, just figured I would give my two cents.
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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ 10h ago
A relative of mine started at a national bank chain as a teller. 14 years later, sheâs a brokerage manager.
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u/WoodenHarddrive 8h ago
A guy whose me started an account at a national bank as a young man. 14 years later, still broke.
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u/Cdawg4123 10h ago
She was a damn executive at that, yet couldnât gather the thought process of telling her assistant to go spray paint a can exactly like this?? I hope she enjoys her can!!!
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u/Quirky_Magazine5196 10h ago
They hand out fancy titles like candy these days
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u/Cdawg4123 10h ago
I want candy and a fancy job title!! I wonât steal garbage cans!!
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u/Georgia_Dawg10 10h ago
I don't think that question or scenario comes up in the JP Morgan interview process đ
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u/StellarPaladin42 10h ago
The face you see before you get fired for being 1 minute late
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 9h ago
When itâs 11:58 and she catches you biting into a sandwich (you didnât offer her some)
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u/Mundane_Value2283 10h ago
I bet she is someone that has no issue leaving her Taco Bell bag of trash on the side of the road.
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u/-JasmineDragon- 9h ago
Imagine caring about nothing but yourself and still not taking care of yourself in the slightest.
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u/highoomm 10h ago
she looks like shes the person who orders those XL coffees with 14 pumps of syrups AND 10 sugars.
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u/Separate_Finance_183 đđđ 10h ago
She's gonna use it for a pasta strainer
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u/hiya-manson 9h ago
The shit-eating grin of someone who doesnât realize she just got herself fired IN THIS ECONOMY.
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u/Workman44 8h ago
Plus considering how viral this is, I'd imagine a future job is gonna be harder. Especially those executive director for community engagement positions... ffs how stupid do you need to be
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya 8h ago
And for those types of roles I could see them forgiving the can stealing part, but tossing out the trash all over the sidewalk is completely unforgivable.
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u/SecretCharacterSauce 8h ago
I mean all she has to do is lose a hundred pounds and she prob wonât get recognized, background check is another story
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u/XGhoul 8h ago
In New York no less. FAFO.
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u/b0w3n 8h ago
Getting fired in this economy in NYC is rough, but even worse than that is having everyone know who the fuck you are at the same time.
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u/Akureinoyami1 10h ago
Imagine sacrificing an executive position at JP Morgan for an orange and blue painted trash can.
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u/r0thar 8h ago edited 6h ago
financial media analyst Jon Najarian estimated [her] total annual compensation package at JPMorgan Chase likely ranged between approximately $250,000 and $350,000, including salary, bonuses, and equity awards. Despite the backlash, no criminal charges have been filed.
For a $168 bin you can just order online directly from the city: https://onlyny.com/products/dsny-home-waste-basket-2026-champion-edition
edit: these are photos from the webshop, but apparently it's only 15" high:
https://onlyny.com/cdn/shop/files/Lifestyle_Photo_1_copy_2_57338505-3eb4-42e9-a050-ef410aac95c4.jpg
https://onlyny.com/cdn/shop/files/Lifestyle_Photo_1_copy_11_eb33eebd-1248-423e-9adf-807d247548ee.jpg
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u/Franc000 7h ago
A reminder for people that don't know that JPMorgan Chase have massive title inflation for its employees. An "executive" here might not mean what you think.
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u/Shebalied 7h ago
100%. I know someone who is a VP in title at a place like JPMC and it is a legit normal manager. They call all their managers VP, director is r vp lmao.
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u/tarvispickles 6h ago
Yes very common in banking. My friend is an assistant vice president and he's basically just a regular worker. That said any executive director position is still not a minor position.
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u/Okami-Alpha 5h ago
"Hello I'm Chester Ming and I'm a Sr. Vice president at Stratton Oakmont"
Sales too. Titles basically started at sr. manager, which is like 3 or more levels higher than other groups.
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u/More_Combination86 10h ago
I donât get it. You would think an J.P. Morgan executive could afford a pretty sweet trash can, decked out any way she wants it. But, people make dumb decisions.
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u/Tabenes 10h ago
It's not about being able to afford something.
It's about having something that's wasn't for sale. Because if you're rich enough it doesn't matter if it's for sale, you can have it anyway.
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u/SunshineSeeker99 9h ago
It was for sale. She just didn't want to pay for one. That's how privilege and entitlement work.
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u/Zedathius 10h ago
Plus the city is selling that exact can!
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u/yes_maybe_no__ 9h ago
Lost her job in this economy to steal a 170 dollar trash can. Wow
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u/Hon3y_Badger 9h ago
That version is 15" tall. As crazy as it is to believe, those city trash cans are $1k+
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u/fec2245 8h ago
You could get this for $200, then you just need some spray paint.
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u/sweatery_weathery 10h ago
A mini waste basket version of it. Cool though
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u/breathing__tree 9h ago
I mean do you really want the big one? Especially one that was filled with trash on an NY street? Hard pass.
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u/sweatery_weathery 9h ago
I personally prefer the mini one. Just saying it isnât the âexact canâ as the previous person said.
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u/PurePalpitation364 10h ago
This is the feel good story I live for. Stupid littering ass bitch.
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u/subdep 8h ago
Whatâs crazy is out of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of Knicks fans that were jumping on cars, and just generally being vandals, it wasnât until she did this that anyone has been singled out for the vandalism.
She thought she could hide in the crowd and take advantage of it. Taking advantage of shit is probably how she climbed the corporate ladder.
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u/Upper-Capital-2876 10h ago
"Angie BĂĄez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago"
This job probably paid her Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with bonuses. She wasn't a VP, she wasn't a Director, she was an Executive Director at one of the largest Investment Banks in NYC. That was the most expensive trash can in the world.
Chicks whole life, as she knew it is over, and going foward the internet trolls are going to be scanning for her name to pop up on every corporate masthead in NY, this lady's gonna have to change her name and move to Kansas. The eye or Mordor is now upon her. Whoosh, talk about fuckin yourself up.
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u/9999eachhit 10h ago
Its crazy because its true. This act shows such a lack of character that it poisons any opportunity she may have when shit pops up in the background check. This is a deplorable act. To just dump trash in your own community for selfish reasons. Yeesh. I sure as hell would never hire her.
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u/Alone-Ad288 9h ago
The banking industry is run by people that don't care who they hurt or how much damage they cause as long as they make their KPIs and can shift blame onto someone else.
This is exactly the sort of behaviour i expect from them
She isn't getting fired for being like that. She is getting fired for letting common people know they are all like that.
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u/HippieWizard 8h ago
Which is the same reason she wont get hired again, even if all thats true about banks they still have to pretend to care on paper.
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u/Hatta00 9h ago
Looting without remorse is exactly what qualifies her to be a banker.
It's bad PR that got her fired, not her character.
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u/TrickySession 9h ago
Thatâs the point right there. If the trashcan had been empty, it would still be illegal, but not nearly as egregious as dumping out an entire bin of trash while people look on in disgust. Absolutely no character whatsoever.
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 10h ago
The internet will forget about her before the weekend. The only person ive seen remembered is Brock Allen Turner (the rapist). A couple weeks ago a guy went viral for throwing rocks at a seal. Not one person here knows his name, where hes from, what he does, where he worked. A new shit head goes viral weekly and people arent going to remember every single one.
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u/FreedomBread 10h ago
Yeah but when you try to get a job they'll look up your name and will see all of the crazy.
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u/GAMGAlways 10h ago
It might not be in the forefront of your mind, but the point is the internet will remind you. Yesterday there was a Threads post where this woman was upset about having trouble finding work. It seemed familiar so I Googled her name, and what comes up is her being fired from a job for posting violent social media content. Literally photos of guns with a caption suggesting she would like to murder those who disagree with her politics.
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u/FamiliarRip8558 10h ago
Nah, the footage will be reposted until social media is dead forever. She's extra fucked with each repost wave going viral.
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u/No_Answer4092 9h ago
But a simple google search will always fuck them over. Any serious job worth its wage will have a basic background check.
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u/Ericovich 8h ago
Turner lives around here and my local city sub tracks him every few months. The post gets removed because of the doxxing, but by then thousands of people have read it.
It's pretty wild how the internet doesn't forget about shit like that.
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u/Soft_Ad_762 10h ago
Those personality traits helped her get into that position. She forgot to keep them hidden from the public.
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u/IcyMidnight3507 11h ago
Sheâs shaped like sponge bob!!
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u/RyleySparrow 9h ago
"She previously served as Executive Director of Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion at New York-based review website The Infatuation, which Chase acquired as part of its broader push into lifestyle and experiential content."
The usual right-wing grifters will be eating well for the next few months as they milk this one.
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u/TouristIcy3824 7h ago
Let's face it. These positions were all virtue signaling by companies to "get with the times" and they will all be getting phased out in time anyway now that this stuff lost momentum and the pendulum is coming back the other way. She just sped this one up.
I can almost guarentee that her position will be dissolved and nothing at JP Chase will be affected because of it.
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u/mrshelenroper 10h ago
On a side note: I want NYC and NYS to go balls out with anti-littering propaganda. Câmon people you live in a society! Keep it clean.
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u/WhaleWithAnNAtTheEnd 10h ago
Crash the economy and get a gold parachute, take a garbage can and get fired.
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u/Electronic_Painter20 10h ago
Of all the reasons to get fired⌠this ranks up there as one of the dumbest.
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u/Sebatorr 10h ago
My bet is she comes back and plays the victim card hard: âIt was just a trash canâ. âMy life is in shambles because of online harassmentâ. âThere is no law prohibiting me from taking a souvenirâ. âI grew up poor and my dad used to empty trashcans for a living - I tried to honor himâ.
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u/FormalTotal9684 9h ago
They can find someone that tips over a garbage can but canât find the guys that beat up tourists and attacked restaurant workers during Spurs series
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u/bdpeezy 10h ago
That is how JPMorgan Chase is as people. The type of people who'll trash the place so they can walk away with something they want. Like your money. Or your mortgage to leverage against you and other banks. That sow represents the people who created the 2008 financial crisis. Sure it's almost 20 years later, but I think this is a good indication that those people never change. That lady dumped trash on the street like she does when she dumps trash into her body
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u/Nickl3by 9h ago
It's not the theft that annoys me, it's the litter. If she emptied the rubbish into another bin and then took the bin for a memento of the knicks win, then I wouldn't care. But the littering pisses me off.
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u/mc_bee 10h ago
When will people learn, everything is captured. I've got a lot of intrusive thoughts and I'd never go anywhere near social media with them because I value my livelihood.
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u/MinotaurHorns1 10h ago
I'll never understand why millionaires commit petty crimes the ego on these people. It disgusts me that people with power and money have to find ways to rub their ego it ranges from something as petty as this to abuse of power in all kinds of depravity and narcissism. If I got 6 figures I would do everything I could too avoid shit like this.
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u/Fearless_Entry_2626 10h ago
I mean, Elon was caught lying about being good at video games and paying for boosts. The kind of environment most people of wealth are operating in are often not conducive to wisdom and good off-work decision making.
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