Desperate Bank of America Employee Ready to Jump 3.18K Owen Thomas 02/11/09 07:36PM Filed to: sign of the times sign of the times Bank of America metlife Recessionomics Jobs "Met: Are you hiring?????" That's the question a Bank of America worker pasted on his office window in a midtown-Manhattan skyscraper. The giant, troubled bank's building is next to MetLife, a more solvent insurance firm.