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Re: Only in America
What a character.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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‘Not great news’: US boss fires 900 employees on a Zoom call
USA firings are the best firings.Vishal Garg told the Better.com staff they were ‘part of the unlucky group’ that would be terminated ‘immediately’
The chief executive of a US mortgage company has drawn criticism after he reportedly fired 900 employees on a Zoom call.
“I come to you with not great news,” Vishal Garg, CEO of Better.com, is heard saying at the beginning of the video call made on Wednesday last week. Footage of the call was widely circulated on social media.
“If you’re on this call, you are part of the unlucky group being laid off. Your employment here is terminated effective immediately,” Garg continued, citing changes in the market, “efficiency” and “productivity” as the reasons behind the mass termination.
“The market has changed … we have to move with it in order to survive,” the 43-year-old offered as explanation. “Ultimately it was my decision and I wanted you to hear it from me.”
He then reportedly said the employees could expect an email from HR with details of severance and benefits.
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anybody know what that company works in and provides? methinks a boycott is in order, if only to teach them to do things properly, even when such things are unpleasant like a mass firing, though I guess it should be done on principle, because I bet that firing was not necessary to let the company survive, just to reduce the wage load so investors can get more.
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Online mortgage brokers Svarty. The lay-offs account for 9% of the workforce. The company had $150m invested last month. Sounds like investors are just securing their quarterlys to me.
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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Just what I said... and while I guess they don't work in France, I'm not even sure online lending services are legal here, much less ones that imply the mortgaging of real estate... Yep, just checked, you have to go through a notary public to do that here (solicitor in the UK), unless the mortgage is set up by way of justice, then the court, and likely certain public law officers (huissiers, people whose job is to look over at legally important situations to certify the facts in a way that can't be denied in court, they also serve due process and act in the forcible recovery of debts).Brian Peacock wrote: ↑Tue Dec 07, 2021 3:59 pmOnline mortgage brokers Svarty. The lay-offs account for 9% of the workforce. The company had $150m invested last month. Sounds like investors are just securing their quarterlys to me.
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"By the grace of God those two students came forward and flauted (sic) that plan."macdoc wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:35 amnear miss pardon the pun
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"By the grace of God" FFS
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did the bad guys go "curses, foiled again" and rail about having been able to get away with it had it not be for these young ne'er do wells?Hermit wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 8:24 am"By the grace of God those two students came forward and flauted (sic) that plan."macdoc wrote: ↑Sun Dec 12, 2021 7:35 amnear miss pardon the pun
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from a click bait thing
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American education
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The spectacle at a South Dakota hockey match that saw teachers scrambling for dollar bills on their hands and knees, forced an apology and some cash compensation by the bank that organized the stunt.
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... You don't think of them as human
You don't think of them at all
You keep your mind on the money
Keeping your eyes on the wall
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money
I'll do what you want me to do
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money
And any old music will do ...
You don't think of them at all
You keep your mind on the money
Keeping your eyes on the wall
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money
I'll do what you want me to do
I'm your private dancer, a dancer for money
And any old music will do ...
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Clinton Huxley » 21 Jun 2012 » 14:10:36 GMT
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The lack of maintenance:
Golden Gate Bridge’s eerie hum could be silenced by 2022
Golden Gate Bridge’s eerie hum could be silenced by 2022
The Americans just dont get it.The ‘unbearable’ noise echoing in the city since June can be fixed by aluminium clips containing a rubber sleeve costing $450,000
The eerie hum of the Golden Gate Bridge, which has elicited comparisons to “chanting monks” and a “wheezing kazoo”, may soon be muffled.
Local officials have offered a fix to the “unbearable” noise that’s been echoing in San Francisco neighbourhoods – much to the irritation of some residents – on particularly gusty days since last year. The Golden Gate bridge, highway and transportation district has proposed an estimated $450,000 project to install aluminium clips that will help reduce the sound created when wind hits the slats in the bridge’s hand railing.
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I've never had to live there so I can only speak as a tourist. It's an interesting city, both historically and geographically.
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