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Title: Belongs in the fiction section
Review: I worked on the trading floor (a few desks from Jett) at Kidder-Peabody during the scandal and nothing in the book remotely resembles the environment he describes.Compensation on Wall Street is BASE SALARY + BONUS. Your base salary has a maximum value (for Managing Directors at the time it was probably 150K to 250K)His much-hyped 8 million dollar bonus...was COMPLETELY discretionary! They could have paid him ANYTHING and he had absolutely no recourse except to quit.So....why would Kidder pay him ALL that money ONLY to take it back? Because they were all racists?????? Why go through all that trouble!Joe Jett had access to the head of Fixed Income 24/7....he was always in his office, no one treated him disrespectfully (he had the audacity to claim the Admin staff dissed him?????)Folks...if the writing weren't so long-winded, pretentious and over-baked the book would make a great fiction thriller.
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