One man, dressed in business casual garb, walked by and asked for me to take his picture on his phone. He kneeled in front of the building, and requested that I get the company logo in the picture. As he left, I asked him if he had just been laid off. He told me that he was given an offer to work at Deutsche and had declined.
"If I had taken this offer, I would have been laid off today," he yelled with a smile as he walked away.
Later, a man, wearing a suit and talking on the phone, said, "Two of my friends left, they were fired on the trading floor." We were not able to speak with the man to learn the details of his story.
Another man gave the doorman a loud high-five that echoed through the street, sounding as if they had practiced for years.
"Goodbye," he said to the doorman as he walked away.