This is the short and the long of it . . . William Shakespeare
Or you could give me a job, that would be ok too. AIG paid $220 million in retention bonuses to employees who screwed up their financial products division. I want a job with these people. Failure is not only rewarded, but handsomely. God, make me a failure. Or a crook. I could be a crook. [...]
It sounded like cats running across the roof. Jim was in the middle of a conference call here at home with his co-workers on the other side of the mountain in Silicon Valley when the cats skittered across the roof. The conference call was canceled. The earthquake probably felt worse to people in the valley, [...]
“You had an advocate,” she said. “No I didn’t, I made myself my own advocate and found people who could help me.” “What would have happened if you were a meek person, one of those people who just accept what’s happening to them?” she asked. “I don’t know, ” I replied. I don’t understand meek.” [...]
Our mortgage re-financing came to a dead stop yet we are such an easy loan to process, a chicken could do it. We exceed all of the criteria to qualify, and our existing 30-year fixed mortgage is ten years old with the same bank we’ve been banking with since 1981. See what I mean? A [...]
As it turned out, it was the Paper Saver Loan that caused all the problems. I discovered, late in the game, that when we had gone into the bank to start the massive ton of paperwork, the mortgage people threw us into the maw of some insane automated system, hundreds of miles away in a [...]
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