The General

You got to be shitting!??! Did the Priest give them the exorcist stare down?

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The company is worth whatever they (majority stock owner) want it to be worth. In your example of paying you out over 5 years, and they don't have to start until 5 years from now, they could decide that the shares are worth $0.00001/share when its time to pay you. No way in hell I'm investing money in a private company where I have no control over valuation or decision making. Even worse if you no longer work for the company and have 0 insight into how the business is doing. Roll that ESOP into 401K funds bf you leave then roll that old 401 into your new 401.

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That is complete bullshite! An ESOP is an ERISA Plan subject to the Department of Labor regulations, an annual independent valuation and oversight of a Trustee.

SOLD

The Honors Course in Tennessee. After three rounds (practice & two tournament), I seriously wanted to break every club and quit.

I have said this a thousand times. The most racist people I have personally been around in my entire life were my very liberal law school classmates from the NE. The ones from Mass, Conn & NY were the worst. They constantly accused us few from the SEC states as being racist for no reason beyond where we come from but they constantly made racist statements and believe that ALL blacks had to be helped by whites. This was during the early 90’s in Michigan so I’m assuming it has gotten substantially worse.

I have personally witnessed something almost exactly like this and it was my employee's wife. Heading to a conference in Aruba and I invited them to attend. We had a tight connection in Miami and I was very clear to them to go straight to the gate and being International, be prepared to reshow your passport. She didn't travel much and was already pissing me and my wife off because she didn't like that there were planned events & dinners at the conference, which is normal.

She decides to go shopping in the airport and talking on the phone. Wife & I get to Gate and see we have time to get a drink at the bar next to the Gate. Employee shows up 10 minutes later without his wife. I just look at him and he shrugs (I can tell he is mad as hell). My wife is looking at Facebook or some shite and sees where this dumbass is posting pics in the airport but she is in the wrong part of the airport. She got turned around somehow. I tell my employee and he starts trying to call her and she refuses to answer. We know she read the text messages.

Airline starts calling Groups to board. I told him he had a decision to make. His answer was "No Sir I don't." He waited to the last possible moment but he got on after having the Gate Agent page her for 10 minutes. When she finally called him, she was crying and didn't know what to do. He told her to go see the AA people and get a ticket home because she could not come to Aruba as he had her passport. I found out after the fact that she had pitched a fit about being "responsible" with keeping up with her passport and put it in his backpack. He had forgotten and tells me he would not have gotten on the flight if he had remembered - and had planned to put her on next flight. Screwed that up!

It was the funniest and most awkward situation at the same time. My guy calls his mother-in-law and tells him what had happened. The MIL text both of them and rips into her daughter for her actions. Tells the SIL to have a good time even though its a business trip and that she will pick her up at DFW.

They stayed married (shockingly), he stills works for me, she has apologized to me & wife a hundred times, and she has not been invited again to a Conference out of the country since.

That is my favorite name of a boat.

SOLD.

Have a friend in Orange County that bought a small place in Mexico in 2006 as a vacation home that is right on the Pacific. It is a 2:20 hour drive door to door right off Mexico 1D. He said they never planned on moving there but now it is most likely what will happen within five years. The COL in California is getting to the breaking point for him, his last kid gets out of the house in two years and his family owned 4th generation company is going to move to Arizona. Changed his mind when a hospital was built a few miles away with a ownership from US.

Thanks for the info. Based on this, I should be inside 45 days.