The problem is choosing which week to fight it. And what if some other country has already made reservations?
Timeshare tycoon: If Obama re-elected, "I'll have no choice but to reduce the size of this company."
Dear Mr. Seigel:
Thank you so much for your recent letter that you copied and pasted to your employees. I have been in the market for a timeshare, but had not realized that your company was in such a precarious financial state. I appreciate the candor with which you shared your inability to weather such an ordinary state of affairs as the re-election of a president who has presided over some of the lowest tax rates in recent history.
Since your company (by your own admission) seems to be teetering on the point of collapse, I will certainly not consider investing in anything you own or promote. I will also be telling everyone I can about your announcement of your inability to proceed successfully in business.
Good luck in whatever career you try next after your company fails. I’d suggest you don’t try anything that calls for original thought or writing though.
Yours sincerely,
A formerly interested customer
“Well, I was thinking about voting for Obama but I got the boss’s letter and that’s really given me a new outlook.”
“So you’re not going to vote Democrat?”
“Yeah, I’ve decided to become a Maoist.”
For some people, more = better. And there’s always room for more assholery.
Problem now is do we spend in the special forces or just hit him with a drone strike and hope to get the rest of his family as well?
Yep. In short, the neighbors he whines about presumably do honest work for a living and deserve to live the good life; he scams people for a living and deserves to be in L’Hotel Crossbarre.
There’s the thing though, isn’t it? You see, we have an economy which isn’t zero sum - Bricker is convinced as much. CEOs contribute 50 times as much value as the average employee with pitiful remuneration for their effort. Employee’s wages are too high and taxes are too onerous, which hampers the productivity of CEOs. Once management disengages to the Caribbean or the Utopia hidden in Colorado’s mountains in order to escape a country rapidly descending into socialism, we’ll quickly learn not to call for class warfare by threatening to strike or leave the country due to cuts in petty entitlements like healthcare and food.
The letter would be more effective had he attached a photo: link.
Well, for a fee, he can always trade weeks, and maybe even upgrade to a better war.
90,000 square feet? I guess we know where to find the hypothetical mansion for Skald.
The real question is which doper is the long lost nephew/niece.
I guess we’re going to have to go for the drone strike to wipe them all out so it can be the no longer hypothetical.
Shit. Couldn’t we just send over a couple of MP’s to take care of business before their shift guarding the PX starts?
Or we could just lure them into a trap with promises of free Disney World tickets and restaurant gift certificates.
Surely the peiople who work for this guy know about his circumstances and his outrageous house, and can factor that in when deciding how much value to attach to this letter.
Or are we collectively too stupid for that sort of reasoning?
Now I wish I remember the name of the timeshare company I interviewed with a few years ago. The owner had put up pictures of W all over the lobby, and my interviewer asked me what I’d do differently if I were like Al Gore and invented the Internet, at which point I , in the spirit of bipartisanship, immediately corrected “you mean Internets”. Thankfully he didn’t immediately end the interview. I’m glad I didn’t get the job, though, because timeshares.
But anyway, if this is the same guy, he’s been biased for a pretty long time.
Was it a place that sold its own timeshares or other developers’? There are a few of the latter, but only really one of the former around here (Westgate).
I doubt the people who work for him know he made his first fortune renting $10 TVs for $5 a week. Anyway, it’s a company with thousands of employees. I don’t know all that much about my boss’ finances and he’s fourteen feet away.
Might be. As I said in the OP I got suckered into one of his company’s timeshare presentations years ago. When they were taking us around the resort, they pointed out a wall covered with pictures of this guy standing next to various celebrities, including a bunch of conservative politicians, like George H.W. Bush, Dick Cheney and Colin Powell.
Your boss probably wasn’t locally famous for trying to build the largest private residence in the US, either.
All they know is that they don’t get coffee.
A just God would teleport the building onto one of the worthless and inaccessible swamp lots this crook sold to investors.
True, but I’d never heard of him before yesterday, for what it’s worth.