Quite so. And much more of a tempered response than some hereon.
I don’t think we have enough info to say that ‘stay with family’ makes 0.00000% sense.
It is just a puzzle piece. Maybe it’s too tiny to make much of. It is a puzzle piece.
There are thousands of puzzle pieces.
Two other less likely but still plausible explanations:
1) A test of an emergency response system that was accidentally activated. If more than one person heard it, I’m certain some would mention it to the operator when they picked up, and it would get fixed.
2) An actual message about new emergency procedures that are in place, that include if there is an emergency, having employees stay at home and call into their sector supervisors. Each year around November my company sends out e-mails reminding us of emergency closure procedures in case of snowstorms, so it could be something like that, again that was mis-activated.
What seems highly UNLIKELY is that Wachovia has a message for their employees about some disaster that won’t happen until November, that Wachovia will take months to get into place the response for that emergency, AND that Wachovia programed their voice response system to tell employees about it in June, letting them know what to do in November.
Even if the highest levels of the company WERE planning for a November problem, they wouldn’t be voice-responsing their employees about it today, and they wouldn’t have prepared a voice response for it today. It simply doesn’t make sense.
Lastly, and this is more of a legal argument — if any of the conspiratorial thoughts about this message were true, Wachovia is part of a publicly traded company. If they had any knowledge about something in the future that could possibly effect the business, they would be required by law to publicly disclose that information.
Yes, they might decide to break that law, but if so they wouldn’t also try to tell all their employees about it. That would guarantee someone blows the whistle on them.
Also, you’d see employees selling their Wells Fargo stock.