annoy-nymous

Pepperidge farm remembers...

I have subscribed to your list! Good luck and hope for a release soon!

By the way, in case no one said it yet, thank you for your hard work and service to a very misunderstood and disadvantaged part of humanity. It's not glorious, it's dangerous and depressing, but it's such necessary work for our society.

Thank you also for being so encouraging to everyone in this thread who are thinking about getting into the business.

1) What level of senior executive were you? MD? Partner? ExCo? C-level? You say you worked in general management and not a specific front-office role? Is that Legal? HR? Compliance? Risk?

2) You talk about abuses of the comp schemes and regulation for unethical ends. Can you give more specific examples?

3) I read what you said about Ken Lewis protecting himself from lawsuit and getting voted out of Chairmanship rather than work out issues with the merger to protect shareholders and employees. Was there something else he could have done that would be more ethical? (I honestly don't know).

Honestly I think the experiments with diagnosis through faking symptoms is very counter-productive. The very essence of psychiatric disorders are diagnosed through communication and dependent on self-reporting and behavioral analysis. If you lie and fake symptoms, why is it surprising you would be misdiagnosed?

This is like if you go to the emergency room, and complain of sharp chest pains. They would run CT scans, x-rays, check your various vitals, but if you insist on sharp pains, they would likely give you painkillers and may keep you for observation. If you then lied about getting bitten by a snake, they would run anti-venom tests and try to fight it. All you've proven is that you can waste a hospital's time and resources by lying. This says nothing about the efficacy of care on those with actual health issues.