Please spare me the defense of JPMorgan Chase & Co. They, first of all, put 600 of the best people I ever worked with out on the streets of Syracuse when they closed a facility that delivered, with current technology, the very products the liaison with Syracuse University is supposed to develop. The jobs that belonged to these employees were largely shipped out of state and overseas, to the detriment of the local and state economies in which both JPMorgan AND SU reside.

The betrayal of productive and loyal employees is standard operating procedure and may be viewed as business as usual in quest of profit, but the good deeds don’t end there. Read this
www.rollingstone.com/politics/story/32906678/looting_main_street/1
and then tell me that the leader of an organization that condones either behavior has a message worthy of our new graduates.

Rob Burwell
SU alumnus, (forced) retired JPMC officer