Bankers Fired Over Fake ISIS Beheading Video

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Six HSBC employees were fired this week after posting an Instagram video of what was referred to as a “team-building exercise” depicting themselves dressed as ISIS militants executing a prisoner in an orange jumpsuit, brandishing a coat hanger as if it were a weapon and laughing. What do you think?


“Banking humor goes right over my head.”

Colin Thoms • Cabinet Sander

“I’m used to this crap from Citigroup, but good old HSBC?”

Sheila Hoyne • Systems Analyst

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“If they needed a team-building exercise, they should have stuck to mocking clients who didn’t qualify for loans.”

Jim Morton • Shirt Tester