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Report: Citi To Spend Around $10 Million On New Office For Pandit, Others

This should go down well.

Citigroup, which has gotten $45 billion in bailout money, plans to drop around $10 million on constructing new offices for CEO Vikram Pandit and other execs, Bloomberg reports, after examining documents filed with the New York City Department of Buildings.

It sounds like the new offices will be pretty sweet:

Plans and instructions for the bank's contractors, on file with the city, specify the installation of at least one Sub-Zero Inc. refrigerator and icemaker in the renovated space, along with "premium grade" millwork and Madico Inc. "Safety Shield 800" blast-proof window film. The project encompasses 17 private offices, each with space for administrative assistants, as well as two conference rooms and open areas with "soft seating," according to the plans.

Former Merrill CEO John Thain has been widely slammed for spending $1.2 million on a 2007 redecoration of his office suite - the same year his company suffered massive losses and needed to be rescued by Bank of America*.

As for Pandit, in January he canceled an order for a corporate jet after it drew outrage, and later told Congress:

I get the new reality and I'll make sure Citi gets it as well.

* This sentence has been corrected from an earlier version.



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Pathetic. I'll remodel my house. It'll save me more money than not doing anything to my house. Yeah. Sure.

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amen, you got that right... they will NEVER get it.
Maybe we should let the banks fail, they might get it then...

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Congress doesn't understand, the broad culture doesn't understand and the media surely doesn't understand. These bankers and allied 'professions,' simply are not able to 'get it!' They have grown up in a culture so greedy, so self-sustaining, so rewarding for just shuffling other peoples money around, and so closed to ANY outside influences (morality, honesty, things like that - y'know!) that they simply think the world is theirs. They will continue to move in their favorite direction until stopped. I'm not sure we can ever stop their herding forward.

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This may well be a non-issue. It is not clear how many people will actually use the space and spending more on furniture so that you can spend even less on real estate is a good idea. (If that is what they are doing) $10M is a big number, but they may actually be buying themselves good value with it. Of course they might not, but from the information presented we don't know.

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What do you need besides a desk, a computer and a phone? The rest of it is ego masturbation for men with tiny d--ks.

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