The General Chat Thread (2023)

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caseydog said:
I talk to employees of the financial sector company you work for. None of them seem to like their jobs since that company bought out the one they used to work for. A lot of customers feel the same.
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I was at a company that was bought by my current company (strong-armed during the 2008 collapse, they didn’t want to buy us but the government said, “You will if you know what’s good for you down the road, hint hint”).

Compared to the previous company, my current employer is a dream. The biggest downside is a breakdown in middle management, like a lot of places, being heavy-handed with some things, trying to implement various corporate strategies, somewhat overly eagerly.

A lot of financial institutions are getting ready to tighten the belt, anticipating a late-2023 recession that’s expected to go into 2024, which is why I don’t see us getting that position backfilled. To be specific on the person leaving, they’re staying with the company, just moving to a different team outside our chain of command (IOW, he didn’t like who he was working for, not so much where he was working).
 
TastyReuben said:
I was at a company that was bought by my current company (strong-armed during the 2008 collapse, they didn’t want to buy us but the government said, “You will if you know what’s good for you down the road, hint hint”).

Compared to the previous company, my current employer is a dream. The biggest downside is a breakdown in middle management, like a lot of places, being heavy-handed with some things, trying to implement various corporate strategies, somewhat overly eagerly.

A lot of financial institutions are getting ready to tighten the belt, anticipating a late-2023 recession that’s expected to go into 2024, which is why I don’t see us getting that position backfilled. To be specific on the person leaving, they’re staying with the company, just moving to a different team outside our chain of command (IOW, he didn’t like who he was working for, not so much where he was working).
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The previous company you worked for is not the same one that I was referring to.

CD
 
caseydog said:
The previous company you worked for is not the same one that I was referring to.

CD
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Yeah, I know. I was just drawing a parallel, saying I’ve been through a buyout with them, on the buyee side.

We all hated them too, at first, because the two cultures were so radically different, but it was our culture (meaning the company that got bought moments before we collapsed) that got our fat, greedy asses in trouble to begin with.

That was in 2008, and there are still people here from those days that complain about it, and I’m like, “What…would you have preferred to to have been unemployed right when everything was crashing?” :laugh:
 
TastyReuben said:
Yeah, I know. I was just drawing a parallel, saying I’ve been through a buyout with them, on the buyee side.

We all hated them too, at first, because the two cultures were so radically different, but it was our culture (meaning the company that got bought moments before we collapsed) that got our fat, greedy asses in trouble to begin with.

That was in 2008, and there are still people here from those days that complain about it, and I’m like, “What…would you have preferred to to have been unemployed right when everything was crashing?” :laugh:
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Yeah, in 2008 during the Bush almost-depression bank collapse, working for a bank had to be like being a crew member on the Titanic. Kevin McCarthy and his folks in Washington are hoping to top that financial debacle in the coming weeks. Let's hope they fail.

It really pi$$es them off that the economy has done so well since Biden was elected. They really want to tank the economy, in service to their overlord Trump.

CD
 
caseydog said:
Yeah, in 2008 during the Bush almost-depression bank collapse, working for a bank had to be like being a crew member on the Titanic.
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Yep. We were literally minutes from collapsing and all of us being unemployed when we were finally bought. Actual minutes. There were tears of joy and relief when we were purchased, especially in my division, since our new overlords didn’t have a similar division. We all knew, as much as anyone knew, that our jobs were secure.

Then, in true human fashion, within 72 hours of having our bacon saved, everybody started complaining. :laugh:
 
Soooo, I hired some roofing repair guys, and they showed up today. A storm had just passed through, so the roof was wet. I didn't want them up there on a wet roof, but the insisted they would be careful.

Then another round of storms arrived. The tornado sirens sounded. I went out and told them to get off the roof!!! :eek: They had no problem with that.

They are coming back tomorrow. The weather is supposed to be very nice.

CD
 
The Dalllas Stars (NHL Hockey Team) are in the Western Finals. If they win, they go to the Stanley Cup finals.

Weird thing is, the four remaining teams are from the Southern half of the US, and not a single Canadian team. :ohmy: What's up with that, Rock?

CD
 
medtran49 said:
As in unexpectedly?
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Yes, and no. Yes in that he never married the Jewish lady that's the mother of his 2 children. No as in it has been planned for a while. And overnight because they're in the UK, we're not.
 
caseydog said:
The Dalllas Stars (NHL Hockey Team) are in the Western Finals. If they win, they go to the Stanley Cup finals.

Weird thing is, the four remaining teams are from the Southern half of the US, and not a single Canadian team. :ohmy: What's up with that, Rock?

CD
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Some US teams have more Canadians on their roster than some Canadian teams..lol
 
Lullabelle said:
I have 2 ipods, cannot find either charger :scratchhead:
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I ended up sending hubby out to buy a new one. I still haven't found either lead (one is for a piece of medical equipment that's in me, that runs off an ipod air. The other is another ipod air that hubby bought me when my ipod classic stopped charging by anything other than the radio transmitter we have for it so that you can tune your car radio into the ipod, remember those? )
 
SatNavSaysStraightOn said:
I ended up sending hubby out to buy a new one. I still haven't found either lead (one is for a piece of medical equipment that's in me, that runs off an ipod air. The other is another ipod air that hubby bought me when my ipod classic stopped charging by anything other than the radio transmitter we have for it so that you can tune your car radio into the ipod, remember those? )
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Thing is, we have decorated 2 bedrooms over the past few weeks so things have been 'put away' whilst it is all happening. We are putting stuff back into these rooms a bit at a time so they will pop up eventually, if not then I will have to buy new. There is no rush.
 
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