Big Oil

[fflo]

Exxon's vile (record-setting) profits last year:

$ 36,100,000,000.00

That's almost $300,000 per minute of 40-hr-a-week work, all year long, no time off. And in the last quarter, when they really raked it in (post-Katrina), the $10,700,000,000 they profited (this is profit, not gross revenue, folks) comes to $5716 a second.

That's, like, the entire annual payroll of MR in, what, 8 or 9 minutes?

I'm just trying to get some sense of the big dollar signs we're talkin' here.

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[fflo.livejournal.com]

Now there's where my inner sleaze comes out---I was just today trying to get the office manager to agree to give me a paycheck every day. I said I'd accept half my normal (weekly) rate---and then offered to go down to just a third!

She did not go for it.

She did laugh sportingly, however, considering that it wasn't actually funny. Just office-superficial funny.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

I like the way you think.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

why, ty. i think. (ha)

[fflo.livejournal.com]

btw, when are you moving away? sure would love to hang with you some before then

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

sometime mid-april, mehopes. Just gotta line up somewhat of a semblance of gainful employment post-move.

I'm rather busy this month, but I'm sure we can work out some time to get together to play some bones....I've actually forgotten how to score again...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Somehow I have the feeling it won't take you long to pick it up again---and then clean up the table with me.

[aabassplayer.livejournal.com]

hehe....true true....though, I'll try some different imagery than that particular euphamism.... ;-)

don't mind me....friends of mine are really perverting my thoughts today...

[fflo.livejournal.com]

*feigning shock*