[quote=B24] This is no joke - he gave his resignation on the Friday before the Monday that ML announced the sale to BAC.  Needless to say, he sh1t himself.  [/quote]
If it wasn’t for bad luck, he’d have no luck at all.   

I know a guy who was hit by lightning while golfing, and fortunately survived, but now refuses to set foot on a golf course.   People need to be aware of the risk of very rare outcomes, because they happen.  But if they base their plan on avoiding these rare outcomes, they’ll never take the risks necessary to most worthwhile outcomes.

A ship in port is safe, but that’s not what ships are built for.

[quote=duster10]Yes, EDNET is a WS term, although it is changing and going away as of the end of this month.  As a “Legacy” WS employee, we have never paid for licenses, mailng, remote access, pencils, paperclips, although they have gotten rather strict on sticky notes.[/quote]

They let me order the real small ones, but i do use a lot of them

[quote=Go_Long]Still no retention announcement.  The silence is deafening.[/quote]

I told you a couple of weeks ago you won’t hear anything until some time between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Maybe Danny will have a nice Christmas presant for you or maybe a lump of coal

They already know what it is … now they are just trying to figure out the best way time and place to spin it to the brokers.

They already know what it is … now they are just trying to figure out the best way time and place to spin it to the brokers.

Maybe Wells is waiting to see if they can survive 

yawn,yawn,yawn

If Wells had anything motivating and positive to put out there and encourage the ranks it would be out right now.  Advisors are defensive, standing up for the firm, putting clients first  and its not recognized at all at the senior level.  The ultimate ‘deal’ is not going to be positive and not going to be encouraging or rewarding for FAs at any level.  Come back here WEEKS from now when management finally gets around to telling the troops how screwed they are and tell me I got it right or tell me why I’m off base here if you disagree. If you have facts otherwise, share them.

My manager spoke to our regional today who said we should know our retention packages on the Monday after Thanksgiving.   

hmm.  from the conference call today they were pretty quite about the retention.

yawn, yawn, yawn

Wow…Danny really shed some light on retention in his call today.  If you blinked, you missed his entire micro sentence about a retention package.  35-40 minute call for a micro-sentence…  “we will know something within the next SEVERAL WEEKS??”  Way to keep the advisors pumping it out Danny!  Doesn’t sound like Monday after Thanksgiving. Sounds more like December 2012.

[quote=Vet20]Wow…Danny really shed some light on retention in his call today.  If you blinked, you missed his entire micro sentence about a retention package.  35-40 minute call for a micro-sentence…  “we will know something within the next SEVERAL WEEKS??”  Way to keep the advisors pumping it out Danny!  Doesn’t sound like Monday after Thanksgiving. Sounds more like December 2012.

I can’t imagine the logic of no retention.  I lost an opportunity from a doctor with a $1 million portfolio (who was a referral from another doctor) because he was not going to move his accounts to Wachovia.  That’s a lot of revenue lost.  FA’s will not take it much longer and someone needs to communicate that to our newly found West Coast friends.

you’ll stay. you have no other choice. you’re too chicken to go indy.

I’m already “indy” with FINET. That’s the catch 22.

bad choice. i had tickets in hand for a due dilligence meeting with Finet 11/2  ago. Cancelled the last minute when I realized what I was doing. Feel for you.

[quote=Ferris Bueller] So once again: INDY=SMART, WIREHOUSE=DUMB, LAZY, and AFRAID[/quote]
Do you have a Cliff Notes version?  Not sure if I have the time to read through all of that.  

Ferris, I’m not following.  Can you be more clear?

Could this be the page that Danny is hiding in??? Oh Danny boy!!! Come out, Come out wherever you are!!!