Goldman-Sachs lifts ban on talking in elevators :lol:

This is a story with more laughs than "Something About Mary." Also a good excuse to post an Obama joke:

"Listening to Obama talk about the economy is like listening to a chick talk about football"

For three years @GSElevator - GS Elevator Gossip - "Things heard in the Goldman Sachs elevators do not stay in the Goldman Sachs elevators" was a twitter feed terrorizing interfloor travelers at Goldman-Sachs.








or tweets like:

#1: Some chick asked me what I would do with 10 million bucks. I told her I'd wonder where the rest of my money went.

#1: I actually thought the sign language guy's speech was better than Obama's.

#1: Clearly the NSA doesn't monitor Facebook. That's where all the experts are solving this Government standoff.

#1: I would pay like $500k to watch the Kardashians play Scrabble.

They were upsetting enough to Goldman Sachs that GS launched an investigation. Then GS joked with reporters they were banning any conversation in their elevators.

The NYTimes reported the elevator conversation ban as fact. Then broke news about GS lifting the ban.

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Whoops: NY Times Ombudsman Really Thought Goldman Sachs Banned Talking in Elevators
by Evan McMurry | 2:56 pm, February 25th, 2014

D'OH

@GSElevator has claimed one last victim in his three year prank pretending to be an employee at Goldman Sachs: New York Times Public Editor Margaret Sullivan (who, for the record, is widely respected).

After the puppeteer behind the Twitter account was revealed Tuesday morning to be John Lefevre, a former CitiBank employee now living in Texas, Goldman Sachs said, in a tongue-in-cheek statement, “We are pleased to report that the official ban on talking in elevators will be lifted effective immediately.”

Sullivan apparently thought they were serious, writing in a follow-up piece on the Times’ reporting of @GSElevator that, “Goldman brass took his purported presence at the firm seriously enough to forbid its employees to talk on the elevator.”

Goldman was amused, tweeting "for the @nytimes regarding reporting on @GSElevator, we were kidding about the elevators."

It does appear that Goldman had conducted an investigation into the identity of the tweeter. But you are just as free to speculate aloud on the identity of @NYFridge in GS’ elevators today as you were yesterday.

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So, for the rest of the story, @GSElevator got outed. Turns out he never worked for Goldman Sachs.

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The account was so popular that Lefevre landed a book deal with Touchstone Publishing. The non-fiction book is tentatively called Straight to Hell: True and Glorious Tales of Deviance, Debauchery, and Billion Dollar Deals and is scheduled to be on sale Oct. 28, according to an email from Touchstone.

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