Two Questions?

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Question 1

How many top people can you list that have left thier jobs in the financial world in the last 18 months?

Question 2

It this normal? do we alway have this kind of turnover?

-- Andre (andre@coltrin.org), October 04, 1999

Answers

I can name exactly one: me. I had to leave in order to prepare for whatever might come along, and it was the best thing I ever did for my family. Now I can sleep at night knowing they are provided for.

-- green_wolf (wintersongfarm@yahoo.com), October 04, 1999.

I don't know 'bout any high falootin' folks, but I know fer a fact we're losin' soldiers fastern' a sailor in a brothel!!!!

-- Steve Pace (space@nwaisp.com), October 04, 1999.

My question must not be very clear. Did we not have someone from IMF just leave and has thier not been others in the financial field that have left as well? Those are the people I was talking about. Kinda like the Clinton death list. thier is just so many that it stops being just a coincendence.

-- Andre (andre@coltrin.org), October 04, 1999.

Yes, I think you mean "How many "CIO's" have had an "early retirement", and how does that compare historically?" I don't know of a source that tracks that, but it would be interesting to find one. I see announcements of people stepping down but can't say if it's more than usual.

-- Gregg (g.abbott@starting-point.com), October 05, 1999.

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Andre:

Your question is objectively unanswerable.

A lot of "Baby Boomers" ( folks in their 50's ) are eligible these days for "early retirement" and/or "buy-outs" from the throes of the mergers. It's a "blip" that _happens to "conbveniently" coincide_ with the Y2K debacle.

I don't know how many times in the last three years that I've heard the pathetic, short-sighted line, "Y2K--not my problem. I'll be retired by then," roll off the lips of these (then-prospective) "retirees."

The apparent mass exodus, in conjunction with the general demise of ethical (moral) accountability, has compounded the liklihood that the Y2K recovery--whatever direction it's likely to take--will be assuredly one of the hardest historical lesson for humanity.

The name of the economic game seems to be "blame" and "victimology." The rampant mergers and buy-outs only serves to dilute and divert responsibility as T-Y2K-SHTF.

The prevailing and integrated cultures of instant gratification and slothfulness will wreak unimaginable consequences on "grazing" civilizations.

Will lessons be learned? I think not! Lessons were not heeded from the bankster-created depression, for one.

Until reality-educated civilizations are willing to act in reality-- not in the baseless 'sham'-realm of "faith"--human history will repeat mistakes over and over, again and again!

Regards, Bob Mangus

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-- Robert Mangus (rmangus1@yahoo.com), October 05, 1999.



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