Bizarre conversation I had with my ex boss: BofA and the Khmer Rouge

As some of you know, I took a contract job at BofA for a few months until I landed a real job. All in all, it was a decent contract job: $48 per hour, no OT pay but plenty of OT.

Anyway, on my last day, she and I were talking about Wikileaks, and how Assange said he had dirt on BofA

"God I hope someone kills him," she said.

I was puzzled - what had he done to hurt anyone?

"No one has been hurt by any of his releases - and don't you think Democracy needs transparency?"

"No - what a business does behind closed doors is their business."

"Even if its illegal? Even if its unethical? Even if it steals from the very customers who use that bank?"

"Yes - a bank is a business, and any business has the right to make money. Getting in the way of that is wrong."


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Wow - I don't think I've ever heard that kind of nonsense before. Reminds me a lot of the Khmer Rouge, and how everything they did was excused by being done in the name of 'Angkha'

We kill 1/3 of the population and it is good because it is for Anghka

We torture children and electrocute dissidents testicles because it is for Angkha

IN fact, right before Pol Pot died, he said everything he did, he did out of love. Love for Angkha.



Kind of reminds me of the KR

wonder what has gone wrong.

Ethics have gone the way of the dinosaur

It would be okay for BofA to break law, how about murder? What if her son or daughter started a website against BofA. Would burning down the house, killing the family be just business?

If she does draw a line, where is it? Murder, torture, ruination, ...?