Name It; Clients Are Called It
From dealbook.nytimes.com
Are you a Muppet or a Clancy? A Bobblehead or a Clampett? You may be, even if you do not know it. All of these are less-than-flattering code names that companies in a variety of industries have used to describe some of their customers or clients. The topic of name-calling on Wall Street landed on the front burner Wednesday after an executive director from Goldman Sachs, on his last day at the company, wrote an Op-Ed column in The New York Times in which he said that the investment bank often derided its customers as “Muppets.” Goldman’s top executives said in a message to the company’s employees that the firm had a ...
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