Delaware County Times Picks Up Wells Fargo Layoff Story Broken Here
The article used Doviti’s Donhusseinsquishviti’s post as a source in today’s edition.
Although the company refused to number how many people were involved, a blogger on “Delaware Liberal” said hundreds are being laid off.
Officials at the Pennsylvania Department of Labor and Industry and at the county and city levels had no notification of the move.
I hope our sources were not on crack.
– gracias anon tipster for the link
Did you know about Wells Fargo’s Anthrax scare this summer? Hopefully a reporter reads up on that too
NICE! No not on crack…at least during working hours
How does it feel to be PUNK’d?!?!
Bwaaaa haaa haaa haa!!!
OK, seriously, it would have only been nice if you were punk’d, because then it would mean there were no layoffs. 🙁
A newspaper used us a source. Good God, what’s next, an African American President with a Muslim name!!!!
Has anyone ever seen DV and Bob Woodward in the same room at the same time?
no, but I’ve seen deepthroat in action
Oh God.
The new media wins again! Congrats to DelLib!
wonder if liberalgeek will somehow get all the credit for this too?
Everything is easier in Munchkinland.
Uh Oh. Is this the real Ex-Mrs. Viti? Let the fireworks commence. It will get the popcorn
no
I think the Delco Times would have given you personal credit, but they had to edit out “Donhusseinsquishviti “
agreed
Oh, good, I get the credit. You’re welcome.
DV reckons himself as a modern-day Winchell…
BTW – the scare was due to a sacked employee who played his childish prank and got jail time for it…
There was nothing to it and no need to alarm everyone. Why? Because the mailroom knew right away that it was baby powder. How? Because it smelled just like BABY POWDER! But according to DV, the building should’ve been quarantined and Dustin Hoffman called in to coordinate….
DV has it in for Wells for whatever reason of his own doing. Hence a post about a company that has nothing to do with politics, and nothing to do with Delaware, except for the few workers living in the state.
…and he had many reasons to be stocking up on baby powder!!!
MOTHER FreaKER!
FULL DISCLOSURE: I have an intimate knowledge of the situation and I know VC and DV personally.
I disagree a bit with VC. I think the story is news-worthy for a local political news blog. Considering some of the rubbish that’s here I’d say it’s one of the top recent stories as it dovetails nicely into the local economy. Moreover, I don’t think DV “has it in” for Wells necessarily (but he might). It is just that his weak immature writing conveys a harsh thoughtlessness. It does. Maybe that’s the impact he is looking for or perhaps his just a lousy writer. My view is that it is 70/30 toward the latter.
VC is a company man, I get it.
and it’s a little bit of both on the latter of the 2 points.
Considering some of the rubbish that’s here
Hey..?
I can’t hit every pitch out of the park.
VC,
BTW – the scare was due to a sacked employee who played his childish prank and got jail time for it…
Only because you were/are close to home does it ring so sophmoric and trivial. But, the FBI was called in so it was not just some little prank to the powers at be. It was handled by Federal Authorities and regardless of the substance no one new about it at all. I feel that the FBI being called in to handle something warrants a little scrutiny and media attention. This wasn’t an isolated incident. There were several employees at Chester and Allentown attempting to set fire tot the building. That is pretty serious, assuming something bad happened, luckily it didn’t. Idiots have a way of doing things that go horribly worse than their original selfish intentions.
So yes, it was just a juvenile prank. So were the umpteen bomb scares at MBNA after 9/11, but they made the press eventually when they were caught.
My point was and still is, that things like this escape the media when it comes to Wells Fargo and other companies for whatever reason.
Sorry you don’t feel that way and think these situations should be washed under the Commodore Barry, but I don’t. It points to a bigger problem that corporate America get’s away with a lot of negative media attention b/c no one focuses on it and they don’t talk.
These layoffs are affecting plenty of people in and around Delaware. Yet no one would know it if people didn’t tip off the media. They just get to quietly get rid of “redundancies” in their lines of business. How convenient. Wells got a sweetheart deal to by Wachovia and oh well, sorry, a few thousand of you have to go….
I don’t have it in for Wells, I have it in for poorly managed companies that shaft people or get billions of my tax dollars only to screw over my fellow man. WFAF is one of those companies in my opinion.
I’m just glad, and I mean this, that you and DG still have a job. I won’t in 2 weeks….
Ah, a company man?
Too funny.
And don’t be too harsh, DG. We must nurture Donviti’s stream-of-consciousness writing style….hone it, make it sTrOnGeR! na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na-na [/steve majors]
ps.
I put up plenty of posts that have nothing to do with politics and or delaware….
sorry,
I meant uncle tom
Schadenfreude
It’s called discretion, DV.
That situation was handled and resolved quicker than you realize. The Feds were called in solely because of the delivery method – US Mail…which in turn started a series of protocols that were required to be followed.
Your complaint seems to be that Wells didn’t blab all out it to the media… Why? What’s the purpose if it wasn’t a real, credible threat? All that would’ve accomplished would have been scaring the bejeebus out of everyone, unnecessarily, and given the perp 5 minutes of local fame….for a prank.
it was one item in a long list of things that had been occurring at that company. Perhaps you were unaware of the half dozen fires that had been started in Allentown.
And my complaint is with the media. I know why Wells wouldn’t want anyone to know that moral is low, people are getting laid off and they are having multiple employees start fires and fake anthrax letters.
that’s all. Don’t take is so personally geeze
Me thinks you have to be an African-American to be an Uncle Tom, correctomundo?
BTW – the reasoning behind the cuts had more to do with overlap pertaining to the Wachovia acquisition (Larger, and admittedly better, Indirect operations) than anything else.
Though the economic and credit climate forced the hand, fer sho.
I’m not. Just setting the record straight…nizzle.
You must feel remorseful if you have to resort to the ‘ol “don’t take it so personally” retort/deflection!
😆
I don’t want (sniffle sniffle) you to hold some freaking german hot-headed grudge against me b/c I ticked you off for one reason or another, especially one as dumb as this is all.
I (sniff, sniff) value our jaded friendship.
Me thinks you have to be an African-American to be an Uncle Tom, correctomundo?
thought we are all part African?
😥
No worries, mate!
I hold no grudge…just you wait until tomorrow! phucker!
yes, we are all Africans….15k years ago or so..
I stand corrected….