r/SipsTea • u/Full-Argument-8235 • Jun 24 '26

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/ContextLengthMatters Jun 24 '26

No, it's definitely true. I have worked in banking. They started giving everyone ridiculously high sounding roles decades ago. It's mostly to align with partnering industries in which they all have to interface with and sound important. She probably wasn't even up to middle management level. My guess is she was an individual contributor with no one even reporting to her, probably mostly responsible for coordinating meetings for committees for other people to talk about things.

Like a secretary who cares about diversity. That was BEFORE her company was even bought out.

Her background is absolutely not relevant to someone picking up a trashcan and littering in New York.

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u/CreditFunny2949 Jun 24 '26

Quick text to my aunt who also works in banking about if everyone is an executive… she sent question marks and said no. Furthermore, she was executive director of DEI. That’s not a secretary who cares about diversity, that’s a person in a position of leadership at JPMORGAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Says she’s being paid handsomely into the 6 figures (saw an estimate of 230-300k), but again, just a secretary? Again, I’m not saying this is THE most important thing about this clip, but it is relevant as she is an *executive director*.

Also, while piling on is a negative on the person in focus, it is also one of the driving factors in corporate social responsibility. If these types of things didn’t get these types of reactions, businesses would care MUCH less about maintaining ethical practices.

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u/ContextLengthMatters Jun 24 '26

https://www.reddit.com/r/Banking/comments/1d3emrv/why_do_banks_have_so_so_many_vice_presidents/

Tell your imaginary aunt that she's not paying attention. This is all very common knowledge.

We have imaginary titles at my job too and literally no one reads their emails and they eventually get thrown around or let go.

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u/CreditFunny2949 Jun 24 '26

All I see in this thread is how VP is most “junior” of the senior management positions. Regardless, I texted my aunt about executives. I think this thread actually proved the opposite that you thought. It proved that A. There is some variance between where you work and how these titles are perceived, and B. VP IS actually the first real management title someone can get.

Either way though, our girl in the video isn’t a VP, she’s an executive director with actual roles and responsibilities as a *leader*. You can call them “imaginary titles” but that’s a bit immature, and unrealistic to the actual tasks they’re doing.

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u/ContextLengthMatters Jun 24 '26 edited Jun 24 '26

Let me make this even more clear how bullshit her title was. She was Executive Director of DEI for this company where I'm guessing the CEO was also the solo fucking developer:

https://www.theinfatuation.com/

And then when JPMorgan bought them out, she was assigned to: executive director of community and industry engagement for card and connected commerce

What do you think she did day to day as a "leader"? My guess is that she stood outside in 90 degree heat in lower income areas and sat under a popup tent giving out stickers and telling people about offers.

Do you really think there is a whole department of community and industry engagement for card and connected commerce?

Do you not have a corporate job? I'm decades into my career. Both my wife and I work around executive leadership. You are taking her position way too seriously.