11 Dec
2002
11 Dec
'02
8:25 p.m.
on 12/11/02 8:06 PM, J.C.Wren at jcwren(a)jcwren.com wrote:
Most likely because of end-of-year budgetting. By
laying people before the
first of the calendar year, they can write off the benefits packages, if I
understand this correctly.
Of course, my idea of high finance is actually getting my checkbook to
balance once a year.
There's a great line in an episode of the Mary Tyler Moore Show where Rhoda
says, speaking of her checkbook: "I have to go over the figures again.
There's something wrong - It balanced." The actual line was better, I can't
remember it exactly. It's been a few years.
--
Owen Robertson