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A sign of the times

I'm sorry, but I just had to share this story, because I think it is morbidly funny and quite emblematic of the times in which we live.

I have a friend who is a really smart management consultant and he recently did a project for someone who did not have any money with which to pay him. The company had a habit of rewarding their best salespeople with Amex gift cards, in increments of $200. Since sales haven't been that great, the company had a lot of those gift cards laying around. And so that's what they paid my friend with.

The poor guy didn't quite know how to use them, so most of them expired.

I expect that we will soon reach the point where we are bartering chickens or molasses for work performed.

Steve Alburty

Posted by alburty on April 17, 2009 08:22 PM |

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