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Old 04-27-2012, 02:34 PM
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What says the AO to this news story?
Very bad day at Aviva
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:41 PM
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we say you are a week late
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Old 04-27-2012, 02:56 PM
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Poor control environment at HR, HR Internal Audit battle royale is the only solution.
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Old 04-27-2012, 03:21 PM
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we say you are a week late
Well, I only check once a month for "Industry News."
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Actuaries (as a general rule) are uniquely UNqualified to work with derivatives.
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learning what the data are, what they mean, why they are plural, etc.
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StompStomp kept saying "Happy Day!" rather than Happy Birthday. It was cute.
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Machines do not make human-errors but make machine-errors; humans do not make machine-errors but make human-errors ... even when the technology is there, it'd be a tough call as to which makes driving safer.
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Radio shack did do this a few years ago:

http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/20...-layoffs_x.htm

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FORT WORTH (AP) — RadioShack followed through on its announced plans to cut about 400 jobs, but the electronics retailer has been forced on the defensive about its method of notifying laid-off employees by e-mail.

Employees at the Fort Worth headquarters received an e-mail Tuesday morning telling them they were being dismissed immediately.
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A terrible, horrible, no good, very bad day! I think I'll move to Australia!
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I know of one company that notified people by voicemail.
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Pretty lame to get fired via e-mail.

Think you might walk right over to your boss and 'insert terrible reaction here'
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