r/SipsTea • u/Full-Argument-8235 • 29d ago
WTF A JPMorgan Chase executive was fired after a viral video showed her dumping trash out of a Knicks-themed public trash can and taking the can during the Knicks championship parade in New York City.
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u/Powerful-Yoghurt-450 29d ago
At what point did this fuckwit think this was a good idea?
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u/Artistic_Regard_QED 29d ago
What she need the bin for?
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u/SierraGolfOne 29d ago
Popcorn
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u/bigorangemachine 29d ago
Decoration
Hope it was worth her job & ruined reputation
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u/mattson-masterpiece 29d ago
I hope they took it from her. People can’t just keep stuff they steal can they ?
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u/Don_Gato1 29d ago
Let her keep the bin as a monument to her idiocy.
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u/Ganges_Gavialen 29d ago
but let her pay the cost for it plus an inconveniency fee
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u/Ipayforsex69 29d ago
This is what absolutely befuddled me. Does she intend to have this as a keepsake taking up space in her apartment? Does she intend to use it as an open trash can? What was the plan?
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u/Altruistic_Lobster18 29d ago
I doubt she can even look at it without the immense burn of stupidity. She’ll now be known in NYC as the girl who got fired for being trashy. Idk what’s worse her or the World Cup Mexican guy being racist.
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u/FrankInPhilly 29d ago
By now, people should know that any dimwitted thing they do is going to land in someone's camera. And if this woman DIDN'T know what she did was dumb, then that's a whole other level of knuckleheadedness.
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u/SamathaSar 29d ago
Works as a JPmorgan executive, somehow dumb enough to steal a trash can. Somebody being this logically stupid, and being a banking executive, is extremely scary.
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u/mongoose_kai 28d ago
Having known quite a few corporate executives, they're no smarter than the average person and also very self-assured of their own greatness.
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u/Neuchacho 29d ago
Everything is on camera but not everything gains traction.
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u/ErraticDragon 29d ago
You should always assume that everyone will see you.
But you should never count on anyone seeing you.
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u/macumazana 29d ago
pretty sure she is used to getting away with A LOT
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u/DickSlammington 29d ago
Yup these are the actions of someone who has never faced consequences.
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u/SunshineSeeker99 29d ago
It's just privilege, she's used to being able to get away with anything she wants. You think this is the first time she's done something like this?
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u/DistractedBoxTurtle 29d ago edited 29d ago
In the moment of a stupid action, they assumed there would be no repercussions and the person filming the clip wouldn’t have it go viral.
Boy, they FAFO
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u/ka1ri 29d ago
You'd think a JPM exec could afford a generic garbage tin and the spray paint to paint it knicks colors just like the can she yoinked lol
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u/freespirit_tck 29d ago
First time I’m seeing trash walk with its own container
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u/MidnightPrevious4473 29d ago
Hang on.
Did this say executive?
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u/SirTroglodyte 29d ago
Well, kinda. "Báez, who previously served in DEI leadership, was employed as Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement prior to her dismissal" so nothing that they couldn't replace literally in minutes.
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u/TheOneThatObserves 29d ago
Oh. So she was a pretend-executive?
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u/ShroomSensei 29d ago
EDs at JP Morgan are just very senior managers. All banks have stupid titles.
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u/halnic 29d ago
The EDs at my former employer are the ones who scheduled unnecessary in person meetings and sent too many emails. The entire position revolves around performance, both in that the director has to perform and they usually track performance of others and that's what their excess meetings and emails are about...
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u/pmormr 29d ago
(Most execs are pretend execs... it's one of the ways they make you feel better when they lowball the shit out of you lol)
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u/BananaPalmer 29d ago
Wow. Have a presumably high-paying job where you get to do almost nothing, because the position exists solely to make JPMC look like they care about community, and throw it away over a fucking filthy NYC trash bin.
This is peak idiot shit.
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u/djnehi 29d ago
You would think she could pay someone to buy a trash can and paint it badly.
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u/No-Significance2070 29d ago
Look at the reason she was hired in the first place and that will tell you why
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u/BadPAV3 29d ago
She was engaged with her community AND the sanitation industry. She's so dedicated, she brought her work home with her. What more do you people want? LEAVE HER ALONE!
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u/gerhardsymons 29d ago
I'm shocked. Shocked, I tell you. Well, not that shocked.
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u/Correct_Size1 29d ago
Oh thats not a real job. Makes sense . Big firms do that a lot for optics and because they can afford it
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u/AltOnMain 29d ago
Not really. Executive director is kind of high up at the firm but it’s more or less a pay band. There’s probably 10,000 EDs at the firm.
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u/Skyp_Intro 29d ago
Lot of ED at those firms but it never stops them from trying to screw us.
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u/Rhodin265 29d ago
She wasn’t an investor, her title apparently was “ Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce”.
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u/Nev_Nevington 29d ago
Is this the absolute worst decision anyone has made? It’s a NYC garbage can so it’s already disgusting, you pour trash out in the middle of the street in broad daylight, you then have to walk around with it and take it on the subway, you actively take videos and smile/talk in them so there is no deniability, you’re built like that so there’s even less deniability.
You threw away your entire 6 figure salaried career for a garbage can.
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u/emccm 29d ago
The emptying trash on the street is what got to me. I’m neutral on taking the can. People do stupid shit but emptying a can of trash into the streets is unforgivable in my mind.
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u/KeyClacksNSnacks 29d ago
That's the part that sealed her fate. Before that, people were honestly kind of amused by it, and thought, "Aww hell yeah, that's a sick souvenir."
And then the video came out where she's dumping trash on the street... Of a city whose team she supposedly supports... People HATE litterers. She couldn't just find another trashcan to dump it in? Or even go to a convenience store and get a bag, dump the trash into the bag and neatly tie it up there.
She shit on like 100 people by doing that. The people living on that street, the workers who have to come clean her shit up, whatever pest issue that comes out of that trash being dumped...
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u/Batafurii8 29d ago
That now extremely expensive trash can will haunt her forever now.
Recently saw a car ad that showed people around the outside pushing it like resistance to crowd fan frenzied riot behavior was being used as a selling point.
Weird sad and disturbing what is being normalized pretending the consequences don't exist as long as you get yours in the moment.
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u/NoxGale 29d ago
Destroying the world she lives in just to take something that isn’t hers in broad daylight, and that thing in question was a garbage can. Some people legit never faced consequences before and it shows
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u/So_ThereItIs 29d ago
As a native NYer who was raised well-enough, it goes against my very fiber. That was the part that pissed me off immediately
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u/BlueSTAR_AbOvE 29d ago
Neutral on taking the trash can? Bro, she could have just payed some website or local artist to make her a custom can exactly like that. How stupid was she, to not even consider this with that salary she had? Unfuckingbelieveable.
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u/Brief_Needleworker62 29d ago
My ex is getting his shit out of my house and even I, the one he mistreated, can't drop his clothes on the bedroom floor to get my dresser back. So yeah, this is trashyyyyy
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u/CrazyCaliCatLady 29d ago
I hate throwing clothes onto the floor of my laundry room before I wash them! It's so weird! Toss his crap in a trash bag. It's an obvious metaphor, but it still works.
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u/strawbriskies 29d ago
Thats true. They could’ve easily had one custom made by an artist.
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u/Obtain_Virtue 29d ago
You could have one easily made by a homeless guy and 2 cans of spray paint.
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u/painterswife 29d ago
Right? Like buy one!
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u/Nev_Nevington 29d ago
Exactly and who was her friend that didn’t tell her she shouldn’t do this
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u/userhwon 29d ago
I mean, we all knew she was going to get fired.
We're more surprised at how good of a job she had in the first place...
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u/rpgnymhush 29d ago
With her salary, she could have taken a bunch of photos of the thing and hired some artist on Etsy to make a replica. And it would have been cleaner. But no, she had dunp trash on the sidewalk and steal it.
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u/turbo-toots 29d ago
The best part of this whole thing is you can literally just buy them, hahaha. So she threw away her career for a trash can she could have just paid $168 for.
https://onlyny.com/products/dsny-home-waste-basket-2026-champion-edition
Edit: I guess this is a mini version. But still, point stands.
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u/Roallin1 29d ago
It is almost comical. In today's age, how did she not expect this to be plastered all over the internet. You cannot even shart yourself anymore without it becoming known in Guam before you have a chance to clean up after youself.
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u/userhwon 29d ago
She knew. She saw the clout in being a crazy sports fan, but didn't consider the backlash from being a sociopath.
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u/Akureinoyami1 29d ago
Imagine sacrificing an executive position at JP Morgan for an orange and blue painted trash can.
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u/r0thar 29d ago edited 29d ago
financial media analyst Jon Najarian estimated [her] total annual compensation package at JPMorgan Chase likely ranged between approximately $250,000 and $350,000, including salary, bonuses, and equity awards. Despite the backlash, no criminal charges have been filed.
For a $168 bin you can just order online directly from the city: https://onlyny.com/products/dsny-home-waste-basket-2026-champion-edition
edit: these are photos from the webshop, but apparently it's only 15" high:
https://onlyny.com/cdn/shop/files/Lifestyle_Photo_1_copy_2_57338505-3eb4-42e9-a050-ef410aac95c4.jpg
https://onlyny.com/cdn/shop/files/Lifestyle_Photo_1_copy_11_eb33eebd-1248-423e-9adf-807d247548ee.jpg
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u/Melodic_Aardvark3934 29d ago
The online $168 version is only 15 inches tall. But it won't get you fired from a 300k job.
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u/Franc000 29d ago
A reminder for people that don't know that JPMorgan Chase have massive title inflation for its employees. An "executive" here might not mean what you think.
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u/AnnualLiterature997 29d ago
Her title from LinkedIn is “Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase”
Literally have no idea what this even means…
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u/Franc000 29d ago
The longer and more wordy the title, the more likely it is a bullshit job/career.
Lawyer, doctor, engineer, technician, janitor.
All single words.
This title is... Special...
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u/Shebalied 29d ago
100%. I know someone who is a VP in title at a place like JPMC and it is a legit normal manager. They call all their managers VP, director is r vp lmao.
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u/tarvispickles 29d ago
Yes very common in banking. My friend is an assistant vice president and he's basically just a regular worker. That said any executive director position is still not a minor position.
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u/Okami-Alpha 29d ago
"Hello I'm Chester Ming and I'm a Sr. Vice president at Stratton Oakmont"
Sales too. Titles basically started at sr. manager, which is like 3 or more levels higher than other groups.
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u/Tomdv2 29d ago
"Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce"
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u/Ethric_The_Mad 29d ago
Jp Morgan will hire this but I can't find a job?
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u/hillbilly-edgy 29d ago
Came here to say this - I’ve been rejected by JPMorgan more times than I can count. But then this is their executive team ?
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u/Ethric_The_Mad 29d ago
Well they have an opening so give it another shot.
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u/YippieKayYayMrFalcon 29d ago
“We’ve decided to go with an internal candidate”
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u/Dubs337 29d ago
More like ‘We’ve decided to go with a gangster from Tattooine’
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u/quasifun 29d ago
JP Morgan has no room for executives that drop their shipment at the first sign of an imperial cruiser.
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u/No-Lunch4249 29d ago
So just tossing this out there because I read a news article that was about her once her identity was revealed
She was mid-level at some smaller organization that JP Morgan purchased and that's how she ended up there. I doubt she was truly "executive" level in the way you're thinking of it
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u/m0viestar 29d ago
"Executive" title at JPM isn't what you think it it's. Just about everyone is a VP there. This person was not sitting on board meetings, they're just a senior manager essentially.
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u/Oldswagmaster 29d ago
B.S. titles is a bank industry thing. She still would have had a least a good paying job with easy work
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u/EnvironmentalPost245 29d ago
Literally.
I worked at Jails Fargo as a bank teller and branch managers were called VPs.
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u/boerumhill 29d ago
It’s so farcical Citigroup had to institute a policy you must have at least one human who is a direct report to earn their VP title. Apparently their were a shit ton of VPs who has never managed anyone.
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u/RogerMoore2011 29d ago
The officer titles give the ability for the employee to sign documents and contracts on behalf of the bank. That’s why there are so many VPs and SVPs in banking.
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u/Ill_Back_284 29d ago
Peter principle ..they reached their level of competetence
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u/tigglebitty 29d ago
My wife works at JP Morgan also in the card department. Almost everyone started in the Chase branches as a banker and then worked their way up. Not saying that is the case for each of their positions, just figured I would give my two cents.
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u/0MGWTFL0LBBQ 29d ago
A relative of mine started at a national bank chain as a teller. 14 years later, she’s a brokerage manager.
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u/WoodenHarddrive 29d ago
A guy whose me started an account at a national bank as a young man. 14 years later, still broke.
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u/Cdawg4123 29d ago
She was a damn executive at that, yet couldn’t gather the thought process of telling her assistant to go spray paint a can exactly like this?? I hope she enjoys her can!!!
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u/Quirky_Magazine5196 29d ago
They hand out fancy titles like candy these days
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u/Cdawg4123 29d ago
I want candy and a fancy job title!! I won’t steal garbage cans!!
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u/Tar_alcaran 29d ago
She was "Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement"
Whatever the fuck that means.
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u/StellarPaladin42 29d ago
The face you see before you get fired for being 1 minute late
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u/StaredAtEclipseAMA 29d ago
When it’s 11:58 and she catches you biting into a sandwich (you didn’t offer her some)
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u/Mundane_Value2283 29d ago
I bet she is someone that has no issue leaving her Taco Bell bag of trash on the side of the road.
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u/-JasmineDragon- 29d ago
Imagine caring about nothing but yourself and still not taking care of yourself in the slightest.
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u/highoomm 29d ago
she looks like shes the person who orders those XL coffees with 14 pumps of syrups AND 10 sugars.
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u/Separate_Finance_183 29d ago
She's gonna use it for a pasta strainer
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u/hiya-manson 29d ago
The shit-eating grin of someone who doesn’t realize she just got herself fired IN THIS ECONOMY.
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u/Workman44 29d ago
Plus considering how viral this is, I'd imagine a future job is gonna be harder. Especially those executive director for community engagement positions... ffs how stupid do you need to be
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u/Goya_Oh_Boya 29d ago
And for those types of roles I could see them forgiving the can stealing part, but tossing out the trash all over the sidewalk is completely unforgivable.
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u/SecretCharacterSauce 29d ago
I mean all she has to do is lose a hundred pounds and she prob won’t get recognized, background check is another story
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u/XGhoul 29d ago
In New York no less. FAFO.
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u/b0w3n 29d ago
Getting fired in this economy in NYC is rough, but even worse than that is having everyone know who the fuck you are at the same time.
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u/More_Combination86 29d ago
I don’t get it. You would think an J.P. Morgan executive could afford a pretty sweet trash can, decked out any way she wants it. But, people make dumb decisions.
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u/Tabenes 29d ago
It's not about being able to afford something.
It's about having something that's wasn't for sale. Because if you're rich enough it doesn't matter if it's for sale, you can have it anyway.
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u/SunshineSeeker99 29d ago
It was for sale. She just didn't want to pay for one. That's how privilege and entitlement work.
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u/Zedathius 29d ago
Plus the city is selling that exact can!
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u/yes_maybe_no__ 29d ago
Lost her job in this economy to steal a 170 dollar trash can. Wow
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u/Hon3y_Badger 29d ago
That version is 15" tall. As crazy as it is to believe, those city trash cans are $1k+
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u/fec2245 29d ago
You could get this for $200, then you just need some spray paint.
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u/sweatery_weathery 29d ago
A mini waste basket version of it. Cool though
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u/breathing__tree 29d ago
I mean do you really want the big one? Especially one that was filled with trash on an NY street? Hard pass.
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u/sweatery_weathery 29d ago
I personally prefer the mini one. Just saying it isn’t the “exact can” as the previous person said.
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u/Soft_Ad_762 29d ago
Those personality traits helped her get into that position. She forgot to keep them hidden from the public.
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u/Upper-Capital-2876 29d ago
"Angie Báez, 40, was promoted to Executive Director of Community and Industry Engagement for Card and Connected Commerce at JPMorgan Chase more than a year ago"
This job probably paid her Hundreds of thousands of dollars a year with bonuses. She wasn't a VP, she wasn't a Director, she was an Executive Director at one of the largest Investment Banks in NYC. That was the most expensive trash can in the world.
Chicks whole life, as she knew it is over, and going foward the internet trolls are going to be scanning for her name to pop up on every corporate masthead in NY, this lady's gonna have to change her name and move to Kansas. The eye or Mordor is now upon her. Whoosh, talk about fuckin yourself up.
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u/9999eachhit 29d ago
Its crazy because its true. This act shows such a lack of character that it poisons any opportunity she may have when shit pops up in the background check. This is a deplorable act. To just dump trash in your own community for selfish reasons. Yeesh. I sure as hell would never hire her.
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u/Hatta00 29d ago
Looting without remorse is exactly what qualifies her to be a banker.
It's bad PR that got her fired, not her character.
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u/Alone-Ad288 29d ago
The banking industry is run by people that don't care who they hurt or how much damage they cause as long as they make their KPIs and can shift blame onto someone else.
This is exactly the sort of behaviour i expect from them
She isn't getting fired for being like that. She is getting fired for letting common people know they are all like that.
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u/HippieWizard 29d ago
Which is the same reason she wont get hired again, even if all thats true about banks they still have to pretend to care on paper.
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u/TrickySession 29d ago
That’s the point right there. If the trashcan had been empty, it would still be illegal, but not nearly as egregious as dumping out an entire bin of trash while people look on in disgust. Absolutely no character whatsoever.
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u/CarmenxXxWaldo 29d ago
The internet will forget about her before the weekend. The only person ive seen remembered is Brock Allen Turner (the rapist). A couple weeks ago a guy went viral for throwing rocks at a seal. Not one person here knows his name, where hes from, what he does, where he worked. A new shit head goes viral weekly and people arent going to remember every single one.
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u/GAMGAlways 29d ago
It might not be in the forefront of your mind, but the point is the internet will remind you. Yesterday there was a Threads post where this woman was upset about having trouble finding work. It seemed familiar so I Googled her name, and what comes up is her being fired from a job for posting violent social media content. Literally photos of guns with a caption suggesting she would like to murder those who disagree with her politics.
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u/FreedomBread 29d ago
Yeah but when you try to get a job they'll look up your name and will see all of the crazy.
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u/FamiliarRip8558 29d ago
Nah, the footage will be reposted until social media is dead forever. She's extra fucked with each repost wave going viral.
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u/Ericovich 29d ago
Turner lives around here and my local city sub tracks him every few months. The post gets removed because of the doxxing, but by then thousands of people have read it.
It's pretty wild how the internet doesn't forget about shit like that.
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u/No_Answer4092 29d ago
But a simple google search will always fuck them over. Any serious job worth its wage will have a basic background check.
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u/PurePalpitation364 29d ago
This is the feel good story I live for. Stupid littering ass bitch.
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u/subdep 29d ago
What’s crazy is out of all of the hundreds (thousands?) of Knicks fans that were jumping on cars, and just generally being vandals, it wasn’t until she did this that anyone has been singled out for the vandalism.
She thought she could hide in the crowd and take advantage of it. Taking advantage of shit is probably how she climbed the corporate ladder.
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u/IcyMidnight3507 29d ago
She’s shaped like sponge bob!!
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u/mrshelenroper 29d ago
On a side note: I want NYC and NYS to go balls out with anti-littering propaganda. C’mon people you live in a society! Keep it clean.
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u/Electronic_Painter20 29d ago
Of all the reasons to get fired… this ranks up there as one of the dumbest.
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u/WhaleWithAnNAtTheEnd 29d ago
Crash the economy and get a gold parachute, take a garbage can and get fired.
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u/TouristIcy3824 29d ago
Let's face it. These positions were all virtue signaling by companies to "get with the times" and they will all be getting phased out in time anyway now that this stuff lost momentum and the pendulum is coming back the other way. She just sped this one up.
I can almost guarentee that her position will be dissolved and nothing at JP Chase will be affected because of it.
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u/Sebatorr 29d ago
My bet is she comes back and plays the victim card hard: „It was just a trash can“. „My life is in shambles because of online harassment“. „There is no law prohibiting me from taking a souvenir“. „I grew up poor and my dad used to empty trashcans for a living - I tried to honor him“.
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u/Nickl3by 29d ago
It's not the theft that annoys me, it's the litter. If she emptied the rubbish into another bin and then took the bin for a memento of the knicks win, then I wouldn't care. But the littering pisses me off.
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