How Bank of America rewards its employees
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You people are all completely missing the point. This is hilarious. Anyone who can parody themselves like these two are obviously doing is ok by me. I just can't believe you don't get the joke.
Posted by: Frank | Nov 9, 2006 1:12:16 PM
This is hilarious! And much better than when my former employer ruined "Beautiful Day" for me forever at some stupid company pep rally. They didn't even bother to change the lyrics.
Posted by: Lesley | Nov 9, 2006 3:33:56 PM
I hope this inspires Bono to stop in his activism. It's better that children die than any more of this.
(holds lighter up for)
"I Still Haven't Found What Mutual Funds I'm Looking For?"
Posted by: | Nov 9, 2006 3:47:07 PM
Genius on every imaginable level. It obliterates the Unintentional Comedy Scale as we know it.
Posted by: The Captain | Nov 9, 2006 4:33:05 PM
As a current BAC associate, I was moved to tears. Can someone please pass me my daily refill of the Bank of America "Spirit" Kool-Aid and a purple shawl, please ?
Posted by: | Nov 9, 2006 5:45:03 PM
I would SO dump The Captain for this bank nerd with pipes of gold.
Posted by: Tennile | Nov 9, 2006 6:25:32 PM
If ever there were a perfect argument for casting off corporate serfdom and living the hippie life in Thailand or Nepal and spending your days terrorizing young backpackers with horror stories of office life, this, my friends, is most definitely it.
Posted by: Danny Gellert | Nov 9, 2006 6:32:24 PM
Oh no. I am at a loss for words. Just think these 2 rehearsed for hours, did practice performances in front of the family. His wife/partner must never want to sleep with him.
Posted by: HAHA | Nov 9, 2006 6:34:24 PM
When Bank of America meets American Idol...Simon's going to have a field day with this one!
Posted by: Ryan Seacrest | Nov 9, 2006 9:07:19 PM
i just vomited a little in my mouth.
it could have been from the excessive amount of wine i consumed tonight or this god-awful rendition of one of my favorite U2 songs.
Posted by: ca | Nov 9, 2006 10:07:15 PM
Buying your competition and making yourself seem better than you are $$35 billion in stock and cash.
Ripping off a popular song for mediocre applause priceless.
Posted by: Mastercard Voice | Nov 9, 2006 10:16:04 PM
i showed to my daughter. and she cried. uncontrollably. for those two guys. for their company. for america. what do i tell her now? "honey, it was just pretend. they don't live anywhere near us. they're what's called red necks. they live in a place called north carolina, where brothers and sisters do unholy things to eachother behind the garage, and men put rotten clumps of leaves in their mouth to chew so they can spit brown juice into an empty plastic mountain dew bottle. it's a terrible place i promise you'll never have to visit. maybe if you're real good and say your prayers tonight, god will erase that place, and this horrible, horrible memory by the morning."
Posted by: kobe56 ;-> | Nov 9, 2006 10:17:12 PM
Not even clever. Pathetic. I guess this is corporate humor? Get outside people.
Posted by: Andrew | Nov 9, 2006 11:45:13 PM
So this is where all of my fees for withdrawing more than 3 times a month are going?
Posted by: Stephen | Nov 10, 2006 5:04:49 AM
what a waist of corporate money, oh...OK lets just raise our fees to cover this crap, our customers will not mind at all thaey are all a bunch of dum asses
Posted by: BOB | Nov 10, 2006 9:40:34 AM
holy jesus kobe56, you had me crying with that comment.
Posted by: twyg | Nov 10, 2006 10:28:44 AM
Are you guys kidding me? Get a life. Why do you care what they do in their own meetings? How many of us have attended boring humdrum meetings time and again? At least this is a departure from that. I would bet that the people that came out of this meeting (those the song was intended for...not us) were inspired and pumped up and proud to work for BofA.
You guys take yourselves way too seriously to criticize these guys just trying to have a little fun.
Posted by: ABR | Nov 10, 2006 10:30:38 AM
I thought it was sincere, and the guy has a GREAT voice.
Posted by: Lynn | Nov 10, 2006 10:38:32 AM
Here everyone... put on your black Nike sneakers now and were all going to take a powerbanker nap over in Finance.
Posted by: PR | Nov 10, 2006 11:14:29 AM
I think it's appropriate to note that the overpaid corporate weasel guitarist is playing a guitar that most real musicians would never be able to afford... Oh wait! He bought it on the interest rates from real musicians credit card balances! Now I get it! Grace days bloody grace days!
Posted by: what the? | Nov 10, 2006 11:19:17 AM
We Need a Hip Hop Remix!
Posted by: Don the Magic Wand | Nov 10, 2006 12:01:03 PM
I've just changed my views on capital punishment.
Posted by: Michael Moore | Nov 10, 2006 1:33:31 PM
I like big banks and I cannot lie...
Posted by: Sir Banx-a-lot | Nov 10, 2006 2:28:41 PM
Wow! A Koa Taylor and monographed shirts -- these must be well paid bankers.
Posted by: | Nov 10, 2006 3:54:38 PM
In the name of Fuck.
Posted by: davidquantick | Nov 10, 2006 5:29:28 PM
"card" does not rhyme with "world"
Posted by: boomhoo98 | Nov 10, 2006 7:27:35 PM
Forget the singing, what is worse, nobody in the audience moves a muscle, nobody even looks at each other, and then a standing ovation!! Beware of the blind submission of this man's follwowers they will carry out his ideas ...... we must never forget !!!!!!
Posted by: dd | Nov 10, 2006 8:43:25 PM
Look what I found...this guy really CAN and DOES sing!!!
Posted by: Anonymous | Nov 10, 2006 8:48:00 PM
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ethan
Posted by: anon | Nov 10, 2006 8:49:35 PM
Ayaa! I just switched my Working Assets MBNA visa over to Salmon Nation visa, issued by ShoreBank Pacific, an eco-bank committed to environmentally sustainable community development, w/half the proceeds going to Salmon Nation, a bioregional citizenship program focused on protecting the health of whole watersheds and the economies of the people that live in them. I encourage all my fella MBNA/BofA cardholders to do the same!
Posted by: fishmonger | Nov 10, 2006 9:04:11 PM
He should have smashed the guitar after the song... Its covered by that spiffy buyer protection plan, isn't it?
Posted by: smallbrain | Nov 11, 2006 8:37:22 AM
Nearly as bad as the Halifax adverts with Howard singing 'Saving' (Sailing), 'Extra' (Sex Bomb), 'You're The First, The Last, My Extra Thing'(yeah you get the idea).
Posted by: Sarah | Nov 11, 2006 12:17:27 PM
Pat Benatar was a bank teller, so there’s that.
This song is unintentionally funny, almost as good as Ricky Gervais Office Rules for Microsoft.
For those that ask ‘why are you guys laughing?’ Well, a major financial institution hijacked a popular song and used it as internal atta-boy/go-get 'em/rah-rah sales tool. They do that shit all the time.
Fine. If you like stuff like that and didn't cringe at it, well then, that's why you're financial people – and we’re not.
Posted by: makethelogobigger | Nov 11, 2006 12:20:29 PM
You're all a bunch of idiots,
Why rip this guy apart for a)having a pretty fucking good voice and b) having the balls to sing infront of his company and not freak out even one bit?
Yes, the fact that it was for, duh duh dunnnnnn "corporate business" is lame but they re-wrote the lyrics and also did a pretty god job at that.
So there! Open your minds a little and stop hating people and organizations that you are to fat/dumb/lazy to be able to emulate or be a part of.
Posted by: Gyi2os | Nov 11, 2006 12:55:42 PM
i bet he's lip syncing...
Posted by: slaphappy | Nov 11, 2006 12:55:42 PM
This is real. I do a ton of video for the Bank. The bank-ese language is too authentic and correct to be fake. Plus, I've taped worse murderings of popular songs by Bankers...
Posted by: John John | Nov 11, 2006 4:47:36 PM
That guy's a twat.
Posted by: Larry Mullen Jr. | Nov 11, 2006 8:44:48 PM
Dear GyiZos, I think you mean
"TOO fat/dumb/lazy..." Judging from the video, fat/dumb don't keep you from working for BofA, and "Not lazy" is about the nicest thing that could be said about that piece of trash, but that would be misleading.
If you're going to write a song about a bank merger, that's fine, but please, please, please set it an original score. Considering how much they paid the bankers and lawyers, one lyricist wouldn't have broken the budget.
Instead what we have here is two middle aged fat guys singing/beating the crap out of/destroying a lazy rip-off of an otherwise great song - dumb.
Posted by: rock bottom | Nov 12, 2006 12:53:28 AM
reminds me of The Office. Although i was moved by the fact "we'll make lots of money" beautiful.
Posted by: cornhulio | Nov 12, 2006 3:18:04 AM
This is so gay. I bet they went home and made out.
Posted by: Steven Kind | Nov 12, 2006 8:21:23 AM
I don't know, but think it's a funny idea... and at least his voice is not the worst I have ever heared... so I applaude :-)
Posted by: Paulus | Nov 12, 2006 8:35:36 AM
This guy can sing! Wow :D
Posted by: Ippa | Nov 12, 2006 9:55:26 AM
I'm throwing all my lighters away!
Posted by: nunya | Nov 12, 2006 10:06:53 AM
I work at BofA and they pull this crap all the time. It's full of money-grubbing, corporate bull$hit.
Posted by: noname | Nov 12, 2006 1:48:04 PM
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ethan
I just bought his CD...
Posted by: Johnnywalks | Nov 12, 2006 8:05:30 PM
They still need to reimburse "what's his name" for his legal fees.Really,I can't remember his name,y'all know who I'm talking about......'night.
Posted by: memoryloss | Nov 12, 2006 11:54:41 PM
I have one word to describe BOA. "Total A-holes."
Posted by: BOA employee | Nov 13, 2006 11:30:49 AM
You know who else had a good singing voice? Hitler!
Posted by: Ohgodithurts | Nov 13, 2006 12:18:25 PM
True brain washing at it's best. I wonder if he will sing the same song wnen the layoff's start?
Throw these monkeys a banana!!!
Posted by: Insurance-u-trust | Nov 13, 2006 12:43:05 PM
ANYONE HAVE THE LYRICS???
Posted by: | Nov 13, 2006 1:50:49 PM
