They deny our claims, drop us when we're sick, and pay their CEOs' huge bonuses.
Grais says many people on Wall Street make huge bonuses when their business unit is making big money.
So ambitious young consultants can expect to receive huge bonuses right away, rather than waiting for a decade.
Many in New York used to use huge bonuses to pay cash or largely cash for big New York apartments.
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Will you take a smaller salary in exchange for a commission, piece of the action, the potential to receive huge bonuses?
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"Just as we learn about the huge bonuses at the top of the bank, frontline staff are having their jobs put at risk, " he said.
Economists estimate that between 2007 and 2009 nearly one million jobs were lost, while the chief executives of top companies continued to get huge bonuses.
But a succession of bankruptcies resulting from poor management decisions left the company in dire financial condition even as top managers awarded themselves huge bonuses.
That bankers make huge bonuses, trade instead of lend money, get tax breaks, helped cause the housing meltdown, and curry too much influence with elected officials and regulators.
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And Deutsche's chief executive, Josef Ackermann, has been on trial, accused of a breach of trust in awarding huge bonuses to top managers after the controversial takeover by Vodafone of Mannesmann.
But it does offend our values when executives of big financial firms -- firms that are struggling -- pay themselves huge bonuses, even as they continue to rely on taxpayer assistance to stay afloat.
Incentives matter: with higher risk charges on banks' trading books, bankers would become more discerning about how they put their money to work, and less prone to make dangerous bets in pursuit of huge bonuses.
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Huge bonuses continued to flow.
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Then Calello had the strength of purpose not to pay huge cash bonuses to his staff as other failing firms did but to use other troubled assets in the distribution of bonuses that might improve in price in the future.
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How else can we explain cuts or freezes in salaries for workers and huge pay raises and bonuses for top executives?
But there has been public outrage over bonuses following the huge bail-outs of banks.
But that would have clobbered the huge returns, salaries and bonuses that investment bankers have awarded themselves, especially since the partnerships went public.
Meanwhile bankers were taking huge sums in salary and bonuses.
This economic crisis began as a financial crisis, when banks and financial institutions took huge, reckless risks in pursuit of quick profits and massive bonuses.
"I have spoken to the chief executive of RBS, and made it quite clear - and he agrees - that no-one associated with these huge losses should be allowed to walk away with large cash bonuses, " said Mr Darling.
Whereas workers' pay depends on the labour market (and has been kept down by the huge numbers of people joining the global economy), managers' bonuses are chiefly tied to returns on capital.
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