Indictment against banker's macho Wall Street

amsterdam - Banker Maureen Sherry was at Bear Stearns offered a bag of money if she would remain silent at her departure about how she was harassed and humiliated. She refused and wrote a protest against Wall Street.

The book 'Opening Belle' is as fiction in the store. But the wise else read it as a firm settlement with dozens of her colleagues and superiors in a ten-year career on Wall Street, where they had to swallow the most raunchy jokes and humiliation in order to survive there.

Maureen Sherry became the youngest managing director at Bear Stearns. But after ten years unhooked them off, while Bear Stearns during the financial crisis went under.

For 'Opening Bell' (publisher Simon amp; Schuster), she later said a dozen female colleagues who confirmed her account of life in the financial headquarters of the United States is still very topical. The book caused recent weeks for new tumult on Wall Street; Sherry behavior machos again put on the agenda.

Warner Bros. also makes a film of the book, with Reese Witherspoon in the lead.

The book appears in a climate of continuing dissatisfaction with banks, expressed in the film 'The Big Short over the same period as the story of Sherry takes place.

The book received generally positive reviews in the US. Sherry, accustomed to propose attacks on 'Wall Street' claims in this book highly targeted inappropriate behavior on the jaw.

Among all sexual comments and other attacks on wives and mothers Sherry had it in his own words are not so bad. Executives reported openly that they are new colleagues only on their appearance selected.

A colleague hair cut pumping breast milk in the fridge drank, and another condoms in a pizza box left behind was typical and offensive.,, But I never touched , they did interviews in recent days at the book launch.

The story of Sherry on a trading floor with mostly men full of adrenaline, news and shouting in an attempt to earn millions, stands in a long tradition with scandals.

Will change a lot, asked an interviewer from The Guardian.,, It is like Downton Abbey , replied Sherry.,, Nobody wants to change.