This was a funny article about all the ways the Merrill Lynch CEO, John Thain, spent (wasted) a fortune redecorating his office just before the struggling company was purchased by Bank of America:
http://blog.macleans.ca/2009/01/25/c...n-office-reno/
How exactly do you spend $1.2-million on an office reno?
Sent assistant to Staples and she just sort of went crazy.
Might have something to do with the Olympic-sized swimming pool.
Trap door in front of desk was fine as is, but pit needed new snakes.
Show me one CEO on Wall Street whose office doesn’t have a Starbucks.
Instead of buying boom box for couple hundred bucks, insisted on keeping Fleetwood Mac over in the corner.