No Faith-Based Bailout

[barondave]

A quick, if flippant, way to determine which companies have the values that make them worth using taxpayer dollars to rescue:

If the company's main HQ building doesn't have a 13th Fl (and is tall enough that it should), then leave those idiots alone. Let them wallow in their own superstition.

(Inspired by a Pearls Before Swine comic strip.)

Comments

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Hey! My apartment building has no #13 (There are ##1 through 12, and 14 through 21), but it was like that when I moved in -- I'm not responsible for that!

[barondave.livejournal.com]

You're not in line to get a chunk of $700 billion, so I'm not worried about your values. (In this regard, anyway...)

[pgdudda.livejournal.com]

*giggle* My company's address includes "Suite 1300", and yes, that is our main reception desk - on the 13th floor. *grin*

[asimovberlioz.livejournal.com]

Both captserek and I worked for many years (and overlapping for a couple of years) for a CPA firm in Century City* which took over the entire 13th floor of the building.

For that matter, IIRC the Multifoods Building in downtown Minneapolis has a 13th floor; when I worked at Target HQ, it was where you could switch elevator banks.

*  Yes, Century City, which was part of the 20th Century Fox lot until "Cleopatra" bombed so badly they had to sell off have of their land, which got turned into an office park. Even after that, it got used for some science fiction filming; the bridge I walked across every day to go to lunch is prominently seen in "Conquest of the Planet of the Apes," and I think an area around the office buildings was used in a "Star Trek" TOS episode.