IO: I'm good at picking acquisition targets...

melon · 07-01-2005, 10:13 PM

Goodbye Fleet, AT&T Wireless, Bank One, and MBNA.

Hello Bank of America, Cingular, JP Morgan Chase, and...oh look...Bank of America again.

There's too many mergers these days, and I'm tired of getting "We're changing our name" things in the mail.

Melon

MrBrau1 · 07-01-2005, 10:17 PM

My underpants are still "Fruit Of The Loom."

the rockin edge · 07-01-2005, 10:23 PM

coke and pepsi is the same thing WAKE UP PEOPLE

**KhanadaRhodes** · 07-01-2005, 11:25 PM

i wonder if that's what someone i know at mbna was referring to earlier this year...

For Honor · 07-02-2005, 12:49 AM

Hmm... do the hustle....

nbcrusader · 07-02-2005, 01:24 PM

It makes for a fun time when you are an employee of a merging company...

**KhanadaRhodes** · 07-02-2005, 07:38 PM

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Originally posted by nbcrusader
It makes for a fun time when you are an employee of a merging company...

that's what i was thinking about/referring to/whatever in my post. late last year i used a connection in delaware and was trying to get a job there. they knew someone who worked at mbna and worked in hr. they said they wouldn't be doing any hiring until the first of the year. no big deal, it was like november or maybe even early december at this point.

then come late january all of a sudden my connection tells me there's been a hiring freeze. i was surprised as it's not like mbna hasn't been making money. now i know why.

i hope i won't get in any trouble for saying any of this, it's not like i'm a former employee or anything

melon · 07-02-2005, 08:26 PM

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Originally posted by KhanadaRhodes
i hope i won't get in any trouble for saying any of this, it's not like i'm a former employee or anything

The cat's out of the bag, and the merger has been publically announced. The only trouble that occurs is when "insiders" start blabbing before the announcement and then people start buying and selling stock based on that information.

Melon

**Sicy** · 07-05-2005, 12:40 AM

merge

zonelistener · 07-05-2005, 02:12 AM

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Originally posted by nbcrusader
It makes for a fun time when you are an employee of a merging company...

Your not an American if it hasn't happened to you.

**KhanadaRhodes** · 07-05-2005, 05:52 PM

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Originally posted by melon
The cat's out of the bag, and the merger has been publically announced. The only trouble that occurs is when "insiders" start blabbing before the announcement and then people start buying and selling stock based on that information.

oh okay good, i didn't know the reason for the hiring freeze or anything. i didn't know about this until you posted really!

things like this is how i know i wouldn't make a good investment banker or anything. let's say that he did tell me there was a hiring freeze because they were about to merge with bank of america. my first thought? "oh, i bank with them!" not "oh, better buy stocks!" it wouldn't occur to me at all that i could make money from something like that and i wouldn't even if i knew how. my parents raised me with values and ethics.

unosdostres14 · 07-05-2005, 05:56 PM

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Originally posted by Sicy
merge

hahaha...

Power corrupts!

07-01-2005, 10:13 PM	#1
melon ONE love, blood, life Join Date: Oct 2000 Location: Ásgarðr Posts: 11,790 Local Time: 06:55 AM	IO: I'm good at picking acquisition targets... Goodbye Fleet, AT&T Wireless, Bank One, and MBNA. Hello Bank of America, Cingular, JP Morgan Chase, and...oh look...Bank of America again. There's too many mergers these days, and I'm tired of getting "We're changing our name" things in the mail. Melon __________________

07-01-2005, 10:17 PM	#2
MrBrau1 ONE love, blood, life Join Date: Aug 2000 Location: Verplexed in Vermont Posts: 10,436 Local Time: 06:55 AM	My underpants are still "Fruit Of The Loom." __________________ __________________ "If you needed my autograph, I'd give it to you." Bob Dylan

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KhanadaRhodes Paper Gods Forum Administrator Join Date: Jun 2001 Location: a vampire in the limousine Posts: 60,696 Local Time: 06:55 AM	i wonder if that's what someone i know at mbna was referring to earlier this year... __________________

07-05-2005, 12:40 AM	#9
Sicy Sizzlin' Sicilian Forum Administrator Join Date: Jan 2001 Location: Bay Area, CA Posts: 71,103 Local Time: 04:55 AM	merge __________________

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the rockin edge Blue Crack Addict Join Date: Aug 2003 Location: tomorrow's just an excuse away Posts: 26,816 Local Time: 05:55 AM	coke and pepsi is the same thing WAKE UP PEOPLE

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