Employees Recount Their Final Hours at Lehman

摘要

Sometime around Sunday, 4 o'clock or 5 o'clock, we started getting e-mails saying the deal is dead: no Barclays. We're gonna file. And that's where the panic reached a peak. If the bank was going to file for bankruptcy, we wouldn't be able to enter the building on Monday morning. That's really the reason everybody headed back to 745 Seventh Ave.: to collect whatever personal items they might have."