Would You Like Some Boo Fucking Hoo With That Deli Sandwich?

Things have been pretty tough for Greg Corkett, former Senior Operating Officer for HSBC. For the past two years, instead of analyzing and negotiating mortgage packages worth up to $500 million from a cozy NYC office, he has been out in the field, “toiling at the low end of the housing-loan food chain as a mortgage broker in Great Neck, N.Y.”

And “toil” it must be indeed. Not only must Mr. Corkett help affluent people buy homes in one of the most exclusive areas on Long Island. He must also, due to his measly $95,000 yearly salary (down from somewhere in the 400k’s in past years), deprive himself of a luxury that practically everyone, even those with very little money at all, can afford.

He sometimes skips lunch.

And that’s not nearly all. When Mr. Corkett isn’t skipping lunch, which we can assume is just about every day he has time for it, he does something far, far worse. He orders from “the local deli.” If that’s not indicative of his crippling poverty, I don’t know what is. Plus, something tells me this “local deli” is no dirt-cheap bodega, but rather one of those alliterative, dual-named luxury spots, like Dean & Deluca or Guy & Gallard. Rather, since he’s working in Great Neck, I’m guessing it’s an overpriced Kosher sandwich shop, where a bagel & lox goes for no less than $8.95.

“It’s an awful lot of work for, frankly, a small fraction of what I used to make,” Corkett said about his corporate downgrade.

But seeing as this “small fraction” is still at least 3x what most New Yorkers make, and that his “toil” (a word that conveys nothing less than Gulag labor) is a cushy real estate job, this is what I have to say to Mr. Corkett:

Boo Fucking Hoo.

Article Here: http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/2010-12-03-lesserjobs03_CV_N.htm