[rezmason]

What do y'all think of this one?

In 2009, in the midst of the financial crisis, one of my commencement speakers (and the recipient of an honorary doctorate) was Kenneth Chenault, CEO of American Express. I don't remember his exact words, but his message to the graduating class was, we have a different perspective on the world and different values— thriftier ones, necessarily— and if we stay true to them, the world will reflect them when we succeed.

"Maybe instead of having a car, like your parents' generation, your first big purchase may be a bike. Times change." Something like that.

Four days later, he laid off four thousand workers from AmEx, just a smidge more people than the graduating class.

Edit: according to Wikipedia, that year he took home $16.6 million.

[pchristensen]

There’s a huge difference between “a bad job market for new grads“ and “none of you will have jobs next year“