‘Ask Me For My Resume’: Occupier’s Jobs Sign Leads to Employment on…Wall Street
- Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:50pm by
Christopher Santarelli
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New York Post Photo of Former Occupier at New Wall Street Job
“…. This is what democracy looks like.”
What did Tracy Postert, a 30-something Upper West Side resident with a Ph.D. in biomedical science specializing in pharmacology, do when she couldn’t find a job in academia? Blame Wall Street and Ronald Reagan of course!
My Fox New York reports on the “down-on-her-luck” occupier who spent 15 days making sandwiches for fellow Occupiers in Zuccotti Park only to be rewarded with a job at a Financial District investment firm thanks to a passer-by who grabbed her resume:
“She held signs that read, ‘Reagan sucks,’ and, ‘I’ll vote after the revolution.’
But she still needed to get a job, so she made a new sign that read, ‘Ph.D. Biomedical Scientist seeking fulltime employment,’ and on the back, ‘Ask me for my resume.’
It caught the eye of Wayne Kaufman, chief market analyst for John Thomas Financial Brokerage. The exec was not looking to hire, but he took Postert’s resume anyway.
The next day, Kaufman, impressed by her CV, sent her an email asking if she would like to come for an interview two blocks from Zuccotti Park at 14 Wall St.”
The New York Post reports that Postert landed the job as a junior analyst making a low salary now, but “in time“ should earn ”a cool six figures” according Kaufman.
“She was ranting about Wall Street, and now she’s working on Wall Street. Banks are not so bad. I hope we have opened her eyes,” CEO Thomas Belesis told the Post of Postert, who he believes will be a great asset.
Postert explained her decision to accept the interview despite participating in a movement highly critical of the industry which she admits to have had no background in.
“I had been unemployed for so long, I thought why not?” Postert told the Post.
The man who hired Postert spoke with Fox and Friends Monday:
“of the irony of Postert working on Wall Street when she was protesting it just weeks earlier, Kaufman said, ‘It is ironic, but intelligent people, I think, are open-minded. Just like I was open-minded to speaking to the people there and taking her resume, she was equally open-minded. She’s a very, very smart young woman.’”
What do you think of this story? Do you agree with Belesis’s assessment that it shows “banks are not so bad.” Are you bothered that after exhibiting Occupy Wall Street behavior, Postert was rewarded with a job? Or, are you happy she at least was looking for a job, got one, and put aside her differences?
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Comments (85)
JustMel71
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:28pmIf her salary after 6 months is still low paying and she hasn’t moved up to the six figure salary they mentioned, she’ll be back at her post on OWS (occupy wasted space) and blame the banks & Reagan again.
Report Post »Yoselahonda
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:23pmIf I were a banker, I’d hire one of them just so I could fire them for being a hippie anti-capitalist.
Report Post »drattastic
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 6:14pmI’m guessing when she finds out that she might have to do some actual work & they just don’t hand you the six figure salary & corner office, she’ll file a sexual harassment lawsuit. So when she gets her settlement she can kickback, financially secure & rail about the man.
Report Post »WeekendAtBernankes
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 8:54pmLazy people don’t earn PhDs in Pharmacology. Even idiots can work hard.
Report Post »maumau
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:48pmi guess shes all for giving all her money away, right? well maybe now that she has some she’ll change her mind. gutless flip floppers
Report Post »USATrucker
Posted on December 6, 2011 at 3:10pmWe’ll see if she lives by her priciples and gives the money she makes to her fellow 99%ers. My guess is….no.
Report Post »moreteaplease
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:21pmHypocrite? I think not. There is nothing hypocritical about securing employment. And in today’s job market I say “ more power to ya ”
The OWSers are each into this protest for themselves. Remember how agitated they got over the homeless people dropping by for dinner?
Report Post »RossPoldark
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:20pmNo one with those type of credentials should have a hard time finding a job in the medical field, unless they really aren’t trying.
Report Post »THX-1138
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:20pmIntelligence and Wisdom are very different things.
Report Post »Perhaps Wisdom will come to her more quickly now…
boston-rightwinger
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:47pmWisdom will come when she starts paying Federal, State and City taxes.
Report Post »loriann12
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:56pmYea, let’s see her attitude change if she becomes one of those making $200,000 or $250,000 if she’s married. Let’s see if she still wants that tax bracket taxed more, to “pay their fair share.”
Report Post »toomuchgovt
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:15pmIt only proves one thing. The people in this movement don’t really know what their principles are. I don’t disagree or agree. Only a few short years ago, I don’t know if I could have answered who I was, what I believed in. I always knew I was a conservative, I believed in God and the Lord Jesus Christ as my Savior, but really knowing the principles behind that statement? Well that was another thing. Only if we take the time to find the truth, understand what we are standing for and fighting for do we truly develop character and principles. I don’t think many of these OWSers know what they are doing. It is just a big party.
Report Post »since1629
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 10:33pmGreat comment. I’m with you, these kids just haven’t the life experience or wisdom to know what they believe and why. It’s as simple as showing them them that this really is the land of opportunity regardless of who is more, or less, successful than you have been.
Report Post »grayling646
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:12pmI wouldn’t hire Einstein if he said Reagan sucked. But then again, most people on Wall St thought Reagan sucked.
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:12pmI somehow suspect that she will end up saying something like Obama did in his pseudo-autobiography, in which he described his experience working for a private firm by saying that he felt like a spy behind enemy lines every day he went to work.
this idiot woman can’t be trusted as an employee.
Report Post »kentuckypatriot
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:23pmI was thinking the same thing.
Report Post »marthasusan40
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:05pmI am sure that once she is making six figures, she will in turn, give half of her salary(after taxes) away to the idiots who will still be protesting as OWS…..NOT………..
Report Post »drybackinpi
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:02pmAdd her to the list of people who got jobs because of OWS, The list must be somewhere…
Report Post »mankind7375
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:01pmI think she was just so frustrated that she was looking for a way to vent and got caught up in the situation.
Report Post »JLGunner
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:51pmThe bald guy looks shady, I don’t trust him.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:02pmBecause he’s bald or shady or both??? LOL
Report Post »IAMMADDOG
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:06pmWhich one?
Report Post »shakedowncrews
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 3:10pmJLGUNNER….which bald guy, they are both bald!
Report Post »I‘d have to say that it’s obvious that a person with a PhD is obviously not automatically “very, very smart”. I’ve had professors who were boneheads, and I’ve debated one on a live TB broadcast, a PhD in Latin American policies who was a supporter of Castro and Chavez–and I have the video demonstrating that I was right, and he was totally wrong. His fancy degree did not give him any common sense.
George Patton
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:30pmThese are the same people who get angry because they say wall street buys off politicians and then they are so easily bought off too.
Way to stick to your principals ows. “Down with wall street, down with wall street….wait what…..oh you want to hire me…ok…..yeaaaaaa wall street is great!”
Wow.
Report Post »metalurgy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:35pmShe will be fired in a year. Watch and see.
Report Post »tzion
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:24pmWelcome back to society. We‘re happy to see that you’re ready to make your contribution. Congratulations and well done.
Report Post »meamerican
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:38pmI am sure once she gets that first check for her hours worked she will head back to her fellow Occupiers in Zuccotti Park and share her weeks pay with them.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pmAn OWS success story. See ya OWSER’S…..Typical Progressive taking advantage of a “CRISIS”. “Oooooh, I’ve been unemployed for so long, I figured Why Not?” Just pay for my college loans and let me get ahead. Share the wealth, gimme gimme gimme.” Whah, whah, whah………………………..Meanwhile, the tax-payers suffer from the stupidity, chaos, and expense this movement has shoved down our throats. Why not just let everyone default on any kind of loan like credit cards,house and property loans, etc that would be fair wouldn’t it?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:14pmWhy was a Ph.D. in biomedical science specializing in pharmacology trying to find a job in academia? Tenure? No wonder she was unemployed, she rejected jobs she COULD do for a job she wanted. Kinda sounds like my unemployed union brother-in-law, who is sleeping on my couch.
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:35pmI hope that’s a dirty couch on an uncovered back porch.
Report Post »OniKaze
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:40pmTime to sell your couch and claim, “With times being tough, I needed some extra cash.. And since I have a job and don’t have too much time to sit on the couch, I decided to sell it…. Maybe if you got a job you wouldn’t miss it not being there…”
Maybe that will get rid of your free-loader problem…
Good luck
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:14pmSo I guess she will now be redistributing her new-found wealth with her unwashed 99% brethren? No? Didn’t think so.
Anyhoo, congrats on leaving the fetid stench behind and going to work.
Report Post »Detroit paperboy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:13pmBut im sure she loves our , national hemmorhoid “ JIMMY CARTER ”
Report Post »kaydeebeau
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:21pmLet’s make sure we get a report about how she worked out after her 90 probation period is over – see if her actual worj ethic matches her whine ethic
Report Post »goodgrubguy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:07pmNo, I don’t think that it shows how good the banks are but really shows that the protesters are really just in it for themselves, like the banks. I’m not a bank hater or lover….banks are places to store your money and lend you money to buy big things when needed. I could use the same agument for the banks as I do for guns – “banks don’t screw people over, people do”. There isn’t a bank out there that has a mission statement to screw people over. But some upper-mid level exec trying to “make a name for himself” that comes up with a legal but smarmy finacial product that can make big bucks but may not be a good thing for the common Joe is the one that needs to be held accountable.
Either way, good for her for getting a solid job and for them to be open to potential employees from every avenue.
Report Post »Marci
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:16pmThey are idiots for hiring her. But that is their problem–a P.R. stunt that will cost them in the end.
Report Post »Therightsofbilly
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:22pm@MARCI
My thoughts exactly.
Report Post »eternal_vigilance
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:07pmThis is kindness in action. Without prejudice, he took her resume and judged her on her merits.
Report Post »THIS is how you win friends and influence people.THIS is how you win.
Ookspay
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 4:28pmUh-huh… Just wait a few weeks, this is a lawsuit in the making, GUARANTEED!
Report Post »CCRYDER
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:06pmAn apology would be appropriate, but probably not forthcoming. At least she’s now working and now really contributing to society rather than being on the government dole. If only the point could be made to the other occupiers that working is much better than not working.
Report Post »COFemale
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:04pmI sure hope he does not regret his decision. I would not hire anyone who protested no matter how well their resume looked like. It tells me they have no discipline or logic when it comes to accessing a political stance.
Report Post »sWampy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:09pmWould depend on what they were protesting. Someone so stupid as to think Reagan was a bad president, and that overthrowing the democracy to be replaces with socialism sure shouldn’t be hired for any position other they dog catcher or ditch digger.
Report Post »randy
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:03pmHypocrite!
Report Post »KickinBack
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:03pmI’m happy for her. I’ve heard of some dolts who quit their jobs to join the hippies full-time.
Report Post »abbygirl1994
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:01pmBut meanwhile Ronald Reagan sucked.. now that is almost unforgiveable.. I hate to say.. but isn’t it kind of hypocritical to Occupy Wall St and then go to work on it??? Maybe an apology would be in order??
Report Post »TXPilot
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:05pmLike Adam Carolla said, this is all about envy. The Occupy people just envy the people that work hard and have the things that they cant afford. But, I guess this particular protester is willing to sell out the cause, if it means she can have her slice of the capitalist pie……that is nothing more that flagrant hypocrisy.
Report Post »pamela kay
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:09pmOh how they weave a tangled web. This is yet another ploy to convince the American people that the OWS are credible. Just like yesterday when the OWS stood up for the TEA PARTY. Don’t fall for it and think that suddenly the OWS movement is anything but what it is. Nothing more than a union, Acorn, Black Panther, Van Jones, Reverend Wright, Bill Ayers, Francis Fox Piven, and Sorus organized “CRISIS”.
Report Post »bikerr
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 5:50pmI think she was talking about the Actor Reagan,when he was a Democrat. He then opened his eyes and brain and changed.Typical liberal read only first few lines of a bio and then “flame and blame”.
Report Post »gmoneytx
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:55pmNow she’s part of the 1%…what’s she gonna do now?
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:11pmSure as hell won’t be sharing her salary, will she?
Report Post »AlansTigg
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 1:54pmthe word hypocrite comes to mind
Report Post »jhrusky
Posted on December 5, 2011 at 2:04pmDisagree. The word “learning” comes to mind. Every one of us make mistakes. The hope is that we learn from them. Additionally, anyone with some amount of intellectual honesty will at least look at the other side and see if perhaps they are thinking erroneously. Sometimes minds are changed that way. This could well be a case of that and if so, bravo for her for learning and adjusting.
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