5/4/2023 0 Comments The boom boom room![]() The kind of person who is often sent packing within a short period. Anyone who has ever tried to hire someone realizes that it is not an impossible task to come up with a resume that looks good, yet the person turns out to be a poor hire. While it is not surprising that there was a pattern of sexual harassment in the securities industry, a pattern that may continue to today, what is amazing is the tacit or overt institutional approval of this Animal House behavior at Smith Barney.Īny brokerage, any business, can end up with a rogue or two, male or female, as an employee. One wonders how any rep ever met his or her production quotas. This room, where brokers seemed to spend a hell of lot of time, had a makeshift bar as well as a bicycle and toilet seat hanging from the ceiling. This madhouse brokerage had a frequently used party room called "the Boom-Boom Room." Antilla, who has excellent sources because she covered the story as it exploded across the pages of the national media, provides chapter and verse of a persistent pattern of sexual harassment at Smith Barney's Garden City, New York branch. Most of what went on will not, indeedĬannot, be described here. She provides shocking and graphic detail. Reading this racy book about the sexual harassment of women at Smithīarney, certain phrases kept crossing my mind: How could it have happened? You've got to be kidding me. ![]() ![]() (Bloomberg Press, Princeton, New Jersey, 342 pages, $26.95)
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