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Thunder-LipsHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:23pm
600k in yogurt a year? Holy shit I am in the wrong business.
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  HypnoCatThunder-Lips
  11/02/15 5:26pm
  Agreed. To the yogurt business we go!
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  Thunder-LipsHypnoCat
  11/02/15 5:28pm
  If I am reading that right, that was just at the KC office.
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Hip Brooklyn StereotypeHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:16pm
All I’d like is a simple K-cup machine around here and these guys are getting snacks up the wazoo.

-Over Caffeinated Goose
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  Couch Man DoHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  11/02/15 5:26pm
  How about you meet your employer halfway and instead just watch this video of non-K-cup coffee brewing? It’s almost like being there.
  
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  NoButWait Hates Your GoT Fan TheoriesHip Brooklyn Stereotype
  11/02/15 5:27pm
  K-Cups are way more expensive per cup. Good luck on that front.
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Negative, I'm a Meat PopsicleHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:35pm
Lol. $600,000 is 0.024% of that $2.5 billion goal, basically approaching Office Space-level rounding error. Fuck this guy.

If you’re shaving costs by basically counting paperclips, you’re probably already long gone past the point of any hope.
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  larryherkimerNegative, I'm a Meat Popsicle
  11/02/15 5:55pm
  I remember years ago Worldcom ‘loaned’ $300 million dollars to their CEO Bernie Ebbers. Later that year they ‘forgave the loan’ on the same day they cut out free coffee for their employees to save money.
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  Negative, I'm a Meat Popsiclelarryherkimer
  11/02/15 6:13pm
  Well, WorldCom is to financial propriety as Bill Cosby is to being a fatherly role model. I mean WorldCom was an epically awful company.
  
  But regardless, the uber rich and powerful exist in a completely different moral and ethical realm than us. I’m willing to bet he and the board even couched the loans as a sacrifice, just like his employees were sacrificing. (I remember something of it being along the lines of them loaning Ebbers the $300mil so he wouldn’t sell his stock and tank the stock price.)
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BleedingFromHerWhereverHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:21pm
It’s 2015. Who the hell still uses Sprint?
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  Jim OdieBleedingFromHerWherever
  11/02/15 5:52pm
  I do. Not dealing with band width caps with an 19 year old daughter on my account!
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  NicoJim Odie
  11/03/15 1:14pm
  The boyfriend and I have been sharing 3 gigs for years and we never go over 1.5. If you have wifi in your home her data shouldn’t get too out of control, if it does anyway, perhaps you need to teach her some responsibility and tell her to keep track of her data usage or buy her own phone plan.
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Jim OdieHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 6:08pm
Sprint customer. Sitting in Mudville 9 Pub, lower Manhattan. 6pm on a Monday.

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  The_devil_made_me_do_itJim Odie
  11/03/15 3:56am
  Your screenshot seems to show your phone connect-ed to an Wi-Fi access point (with a good signal), there is no indicator lit up for your network. It really appears as though you just tested your pub’s network.
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  The_devil_made_me_do_itJim Odie
  11/03/15 4:00am
  It looks like you just tested your pub’s connection. There is no indicator light for your cellular network but there is a Wi-Fi connection established in your screenshot.
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LotharHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:28pm
Sprint is the worst phone carrier I’ve ever used, and everyone else here in Chicago would agree me. It only makes sense that this turd of a company’s CEO is paid higher than all others in his industry.
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  EasttoMidwestLothar
  11/02/15 8:12pm
  Yes. At some point, I started getting emails from people asking why I wasn’t returning calls or texts and was I okay? What calls or texts?
  
  Turns out sometimes my phone did everything except... take or make calls and texts. I’d have to reboot it and then it would be fine. So I called Sprint about getting a new phone.
  
  Turns out, it wasn’t my phone. One of their towers right on the Chicago River had a problem throwing phones to the tower to north and to the south. Somehow, every time my Sprint phone got transferred to and off this tower, it would shut down my phone’s ability to receive and make basic cell phone capabilities (data still worked). It may have been particular to the kind of phone I had but ... how is that even possible? (I had a coworker with the same service and phone and it happened to him too, he got the same answer from Sprint.)
  
  I work in the South Loop and live on the North Side, so I cross the river twice a day five days a week. Sprint knew all about the problem and planned to have the tower fixed within the next six to ten months. No, there was nothing they could do to ameliorate the situation.
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  4thdeskonrightLothar
  11/02/15 8:58pm
  Yes! I was literally standing at Madison and Canal a week ago (for those from outside Debtinois - this is where the main passenger train stations are) and I got the “1x” icon indicating no data. The only reason I keep Sprint is that I basically hop from wifi to wifi but sweet Jesus they suck everywhere else.
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PunditGuyHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:44pm
I’ve been with Sprint for more than 20 years. Just this afternoon, I ordered a Nexus 6P. I’m going to pay my ETF and head over to Cricket.

I have no idea why Claure thinks that cutting back on staff would make his network more attractive to customers. Seems like a move designed to make the company a better takeover candidate instead.

See ya.
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  Jim OdiePunditGuy
  11/02/15 5:55pm
  He is not trying to make Spri t more appealing to customers. He has to keep the share price up and the dividends rolling in for the shareholders.
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e.nonHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 6:07pm
and you can bet that all of those ‘breakfast/lunch/dinner’ meetings held at assorted restaurants are reimbursed; along with the company picking up the tab for the daily car service.. and free phone/internet/cable services that are at his home — for ‘work’...

i once worked at a nonprofit where the director did this, but obviously at a much smaller scale. but it still ended up being worth thousands of dollars that he never had to shell out from his own pockets.
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  shelwoode.non
  11/02/15 6:32pm
  It truly is amazing that when we see these CEO salaries, they are almost just pure play money — like you said, these guys make sure the company is already paying for 100% of their living expenses, including housing, food, clothes, everything.
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TheTruthisHereHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:18pm
Dude has some big balls to cut $2.5B by freezing wages/firing employees but not taking a hit when it comes to his own salary...or he is a fucking douche hypocrite. Either or.
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  Adrian LucaTheTruthisHere
  11/02/15 5:41pm
  The cost-cutting will be lauded and his salary will be increased.
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  Jim OdieAdrian Luca
  11/02/15 5:51pm
  Sad, but true.
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Yup You Know DisHamilton Nolan
11/02/15 5:33pm
To be clear, out of that $22 million, only about $3 million of that is cash. So yea, he could theoretically cut into his $18 million in stock comp, but it’s non-cash compensation. It really wouldn’t help boost company EPS anyway, since most investors look at EPS adjusted for things like stock-based executive compensation.
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  shelwoodYup You Know Dis
  11/02/15 6:29pm
  Or the billionaire could waive that $3million in cash, which may be monopoly money to you and him, but is actual money to most people (and if the yogurt money is a meaningful savings, then 5 times it means something too).
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  Yup You Know Disshelwood
  11/02/15 7:03pm
  Yea that’s true, it’s still only $3 million in cash on a massive P&L
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