Goldman Sachs workers on executive's exit: 'We can't, we're not… no comment'

The company's employees had little to say about Greg Smith's scathing resignation column – but it's still the talk of Wall Street

Again and again, employees shut down. One man stared at his shoes and shook his head. Another, when asked how he felt about the article, held up his hand and walked away, saying "not interested".

Not far from Goldman's headquarters, the Occupy Wall Street movement camped out for three months in protest against the kind of destructive ethos described by Smith.

For many Occupiers, Goldman typifies exactly what the movement seeks to address; the concentration of wealth and power in the hands of an elite few, maintained through indefensible means.

"The fact that he wrote this certainly fundamentally corroborates everything we've been saying."