Posted on 06/14/2010 8:31:31 PM PDT by Shadowstrike
Called Wachovia early this morning to reorder checks. In the process, I must have hit a button I wasn't supposed to.
The next thing I hear is a recording. "As of November First, all emergency procedures will be in place, and all Wachovia personnel should stay with their families. If you have any questions, please contact your Sector Supervisor."
Now, I'm not a nut, but the next thing I know an operator came on the line and asked me, by name what they could help me with. Got me looking over my shoulder, and I don't have nerves, just nerve.
Did you enter Obama’s Connecticut SS#?
That's probably the most likely reason for the recording.
However, just to play Devil's Advocate, why would the message say for employees to "stay with their families."
I would think that a more appropriate message would tell employees to "not report to work."
Ah yes, I had the lasagna pressed 7...
“I think its best you send me your money for safekeeping..”
LOL!
of TM interest, perhaps.
actually, it came as a surprise to me at the time, i didn’t even know our bank was in trouble. on the day the stock dropped to $0.02, i was even thinking about dropping $10,000 on it. I’d be rich today for sure.
in hindsight, what got wachovia in trouble was the purchase of ‘golden west’ and their toxic assets. if they didn’t do that, wachovia would still be around and would be the one who purchased wells fargo.
at anyrate, that’s all in the past. wells fargo’s purchase of wachovia, stablized both entity, enough to see the stock price go up for a bit.
I do. Every time.
It was a number and then the # sign, but can’t remember what number it was. I thought I’d made a mistake and was fixing to hang up when the message started.
What's ammo?
Wachovia, which lost $33 billion in the last two quarters, said 10 top executives may be entitled to $98.1 million in severance pay after the bank is acquired by Wells Fargo, Reuters reported.
http://dealbook.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/11/25/wachovia-execs-may-get-981-million-severance/
By the way Shadowstrike - thanks for sharing - it's interesting.
Now, I'm skittish, too. Enough that I hope anyone else out there who's heard anything will post it, hopefully without us jumping all over him.
After all, The FDIC has been in the red for months, now.
Well, there's only 10 digits - - how long could it take to try them all?
bump to follow later
Thank you
ammunition. The bullets that go in weapons, Hard things that fly very quickly from the muzzle of a gun :)
i’ve never heard of ‘sector supervisor’, but then again, i work in the securities side of the bank instead of the, well, bank side.
come to think of it, i remember a memo that did get passed around to everyone during the “hyped” swine flu “outbreak”. and yes it does contain instructions like if you think you have swine flu, you must stay home. maybe this had something to do with that. i don’t remember when the swine flu ‘scare’ happened.
Why on earth would they record something in JUNE for a November release. It’s definitely held over from a time in a November from some year that there was some kind of emergency.
Did it ask you to press 1 for english?
If Wachovia employees had been given that messsage, we’d know about it. You don’t keep random bank employees quiet.
If there was a button push that accidentally connected to a not-yet-in-use emergency message, hundreds of people would have heard it, because they get thousands of calls, and people push the wrong buttons all the time.
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