Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 @Rachel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 53 minutes ago, best3444 said: @Rachel? God I miss her. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 5 minutes ago, Biggie said: God I miss her. She was definitely funny. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 1 hour ago, best3444 said: She was definitely funny. and hot 🔥 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 We had a Nortel phone in the 90s. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 11 minutes ago, CitizenVectron said: We had a Nortel phone in the 90s. From what I gathered from the video, every Canadian did Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 8 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: From what I gathered from the video, every Canadian did They probably all listened to Len too. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AbsolutSurgen Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Nortel was one of the companies that gave me a job offer after grad school (and was my second choice after the auto company I joined). I really dodged a bullet. I haven't watched the video, but was really confused about why they essentially started out arguing how the phone wasn't invented in Canada -- and stopped watching at that point. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 7, 2023 Author Share Posted November 7, 2023 4 minutes ago, AbsolutSurgen said: Nortel was one of the companies that gave me a job offer after grad school (and was my second choice after the auto company I joined). I really dodged a bullet. I haven't watched the video, but was really confused about why they essentially started out arguing how the phone wasn't invented in Canada -- and stopped watching at that point. The creator likes to provide some historical background/trivia for his videos, even if it doesn't seem relevant to the overall subject. He then goes on to a discussion about the political/economic relationship between Canada and the United States to further frame the historical context. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Remarkableriots Posted November 7, 2023 Share Posted November 7, 2023 Do they talk about the great maple syrup heist? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted November 12, 2023 Share Posted November 12, 2023 I keep forgetting to watch this video, so I am now posting in this thread to remind myself. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 18, 2023 Author Share Posted November 18, 2023 @Brick @CitizenVectron @dualhunter @silentbob @Captain Pickle @AbsolutSurgen @SeVeN CDN @kevwil Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 18, 2023 Share Posted November 18, 2023 50 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: @Brick @CitizenVectron @dualhunter @silentbob @Captain Pickle @AbsolutSurgen It's a lesson (among others) in why you should never hold any of your retirement savings in the company you work for. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nokra Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 6 hours ago, CitizenVectron said: It's a lesson (among others) in why you should never hold any of your retirement savings in the company you work for. Well now you've got me intrigued. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CitizenVectron Posted November 19, 2023 Share Posted November 19, 2023 2 minutes ago, Nokra said: Well now you've got me intrigued. Well just in general, often (at least in the 80s and 90s) people would hold a large part of their pension in company stocks. But when you lose your job because the entire company disappears...your pension is toast as well. With the olden days of defined benefit pensions it was a bit better, but you still usually lost a chunk due to restructuring during bankruptcy. Sears was an example of that. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted November 19, 2023 Author Share Posted November 19, 2023 1 hour ago, Nokra said: Well now you've got me intrigued. 1 hour ago, CitizenVectron said: Well just in general, often (at least in the 80s and 90s) people would hold a large part of their pension in company stocks. But when you lose your job because the entire company disappears...your pension is toast as well. With the olden days of defined benefit pensions it was a bit better, but you still usually lost a chunk due to restructuring during bankruptcy. Sears was an example of that. What made the Nortel pension situation even worse is that Canada -- unlike the United States or the United Kingdom -- did NOT have a governmental agency that could provide a backstop for pensioners when the company that funded their plans went belly-up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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