These Idiot Bankers Were Fired For Pulling A Fake ISIS Execution Stunt

Just in case you thought it might be fun to fake-execute a coworker during your next office “team-building exercise,” you are advised to read this cautionary tale about a group of British HSBC bankers. Well, former HSBC bankers. (They are still British, last I checked.) While on a company outing at a go-kart track, these unnamed chaps got the brilliant idea to stage an ISIS-style execution featuring their Middle Eastern friend as the unlucky “victim.” While chanting garbled Arabic nonsense, they threatened their colleague with a coat hanger, filmed it and put it on social media.

Well, HSBC wasn’t thrilled by the video, which echoes the extremely graphic and upsetting real executions that have been carried out by ISIS. So they canned every party involved and issued an apology:

https://twitter.com/HSBC_UK_Press/status/618172758049062913

Ye, let it be heard, the ballad of the stupid bankers. Whether they be staging fake executions or publicly snorting cocaine, let this be a sordid new chapter in what is hopefully a short book of dumb banker hijinx.

Source: The Sun via Gawker

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