"The Daily Show with Jon Stewart: where more Americans get their news than probably should."
In the past I haven't written much about this because of, you know,
doocery, but as many of my regular readers know, until the day I left for Paris, I was a fraud investigator at Overstock.com for about 3 1/2 years. I loved the people I worked with, I loved how flexible the job was when I was in school, and I loved that I got stock options. However, it's been quite some time since the company started going down the tubes (from my point of view, which was way way way down at the bottom of the totem pole) - I stuck around mostly because I could work whenever was convenient for me and they paid me more than most companies would in Utah.
OSTK released their third quarter earnings earlier this week, and... it wasn't good. My options are now virtually worthless; the stock price hasn't been this low since I started, almost. Every time I check the price, I feel a bit nauseated. My Traveling-While-In-Paris fund is no more, and I'm quite annoyed that the company has been so affected by the lack of professionalism and perverted nature of the management. At least, that's what I'm blaming it on (as much as I'd love blame Herb Greenberg or the actual financials, which I know very little about). I used to think the Sith Lord bit was funny, and kind of cool, because what sort of CEO talks like that on a conference call? I like unorthodoxy, even if it comes from someone who thinks eye contact means staring a foot lower than a person's eyes. I don't, however, like it when it means I end up losing money. Or at least losing potential money.
Also, with the election yesterday, I must say that as much as I love Paris, I could really use a regular Jon Stewart fix. That is all.
