Bye Bye Banks and Wall Street - Page 39

JWBear · 12-12-2008, 10:57 AM

My agency will be laying-off 210 employees in January. This is not good.

Kevy Baby · 12-12-2008, 03:52 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

My agency will be laying-off 210 employees in January. This is not good.

I thought you worked for the county gov'ment?

katiesue · 12-12-2008, 04:06 PM

I quite narrowly missed the chopping block on Wednesday.

Snowflake · 12-12-2008, 04:10 PM

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Originally Posted by katiesue

I quite narrowly missed the chopping block on Wednesday.

Thank goodness!

Alex · 12-12-2008, 04:12 PM

I think I've pieced together why I was kept. It is beyond ridiculous but I'm not complaining (and is flattering in a way while also being a bit scary in its randomness).

JWBear · 12-12-2008, 04:15 PM

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Originally Posted by Kevy Baby

I thought you worked for the county gov'ment?

I do.

Andrew · 12-12-2008, 04:15 PM

Katiesue & Alex, glad you are still safely employed!

Kevy Baby · 12-12-2008, 05:07 PM

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Originally Posted by JWBear

I do.

And then I read about it in the paper at lunch right after I posted that.

Kevy Baby · 02-04-2009, 11:17 AM

Alex's trip to Las Vegas has been canceled.

And in an example of poor writing, I present the opening paragraph to the article:

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WASHINGTON - Wells Fargo & Co. abruptly canceled Tuesday a pricey Las Vegas casino junket for employees after a torrent of criticism that it was misusing $25 billion in taxpayer bailout money.

Wow: it was going to be a $25 billion junket?

Alex · 02-04-2009, 01:01 PM

I don't work at Wells but I used to. I wonder which event it was before I think about how inappropriate it was.

That said, big banks are national affairs and there is still a need to bring large geographically diverse groups of people together. And for the Wells footprint Vegas is reasonably central and reasonably cheap if you need to store 500 people for a few days.

And meantime, through other channels I am sure someone will be trying to find ways to spend government money to revive convention business in Vegas.

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Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I think I've pieced together why I was kept. It is beyond ridiculous but I'm not complaining (and is flattering in a way while also being a bit scary in its randomness).
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Andrew Making Good Girls Go Bad Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Palo Alto, CA Posts: 734	Katiesue & Alex, glad you are still safely employed! __________________ -- Andrew Just Andrew. Do I contradict myself? Very well then, I contradict myself. (I am large, I contain multitudes.) -- Walt Whitman, "Song of Myself"
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02-04-2009, 01:01 PM	#390
Alex . Join Date: Feb 2005 Posts: 13,354	I don't work at Wells but I used to. I wonder which event it was before I think about how inappropriate it was. That said, big banks are national affairs and there is still a need to bring large geographically diverse groups of people together. And for the Wells footprint Vegas is reasonably central and reasonably cheap if you need to store 500 people for a few days. And meantime, through other channels I am sure someone will be trying to find ways to spend government money to revive convention business in Vegas.
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