Geez…what a martyr. If this guy only really cared about those hurt by the economic crisis, he wouldn't have needed to send this to the NYT to have it published.

Guys, come on - this man has been wronged by a promise-breaker… I mean, A.I.G. broke a promise, and that's more hurtful than anything - starvation, homelessness, destitution…anything!  You just don't go around breaking promises…especially to “I-was-poor-once-so-I-totally-get-it” rich people. I mean, he turned down other job offers. Job offers for even more money and less work, and that proves that he's totally in this for all the right reasons (read: not money). But now, he is forced to the streets (via his own resignation) and might end up having to dip into his family's vacation fund to keep up payments on his Maybach. All because of you, A.I.G.

I bet this DeSantis guy had no problem when Auto Executives and Wall Street investors demanded that unionized employees bite the bullet on bonuses, pensions and other benefits. Right? Right?…

Reading this poor man's letter made me cry. With laughter. I AM a teacher. I live in an apartment in the ghetto where I heard my neighbor be murdered in November. I haven't purchased meat in two months because I can't afford it. And the student loan debt for the education that allows me to do my work tops $100,000. I'm not crying, just stating facts—this is the profession I've chosen, and I love it even though I have to put up with the obvious downside of being paid a pittance. As a big boy, I can handle reality. But when schmucks like Jake DeSantis whine and moan and throw fits because the luxury rug was suddenly (and very temporarily, I guarantee) pulled out from underneath them, I can't help but feel some measure of schadenfreude. The very fact that DeSantis has the OPTION to quit his job in indignation after “los[ing] a significant portion of [his] life savings” says tons more than his tear-stained letter of resignation ever could. Likely as not, “a significant portion” of DeSantis' life savings is more than I've grossed in ten years of teaching.
Sorry you're being shafted, Mr. DeSantis—someone in the government really should have recognized that you really ARE worth that much more than the rest of us, and then you could have gotten the bonus you truly deserved.

Well let me second that Amanda because I felt the same way. I kept waiting for the punchline. I just wish I could have been his manager for 5 minutes so I could have said don't let the door hit you on the ass on the way out you whiny ass punk.