Sounds Like The Greatest Job Ever!
What happens when the boss is under house arrest:
Posted: January 5th, 2009 | Filed under: All Over But The Shouting, Follow The Money, Followed By A Perplexed Stroke Of The Chin, Well, What Did You Expect?Every day, dozens of employees of swindler Bernard Madoff’s firm report to their Midtown offices. They’re still paid — but they do no work.
The phones at Madoff Securities are turned off. The few computers that remain aren’t plugged in.
“It’s pretty bad,” one employee said. “We can’t conduct any business. We basically get there at 9, hang around, and go home at 5. It’s surreal. It’s also scary, because we don’t know what’s going on.
“We’re basically just sitting around and waiting for the call that dismisses us,” he said.
