Falling Stock Prices

As a good friend of mine watches the company he works for deteriorate with layoffs and a falling stock price, I decided to lend some encouraging words in the form of telling him a childhood story of mine.

Here goes the email response to him:

“It is always fun to be in that position.

Now for a little story:

The way we dedicate and give a part of ourselves to the company we work for reminds me of the time I thought it was cool to tie up a GI Joe to the end of a long piece of string and throw it out the back window of the station wagon while my mom was driving to watch it bounce around. Boing Boing Boing. Then, it only made sense to commit just a little more by wrapping the string around my finger a couple of times, Boing Boing Boing Boing, Then one day, it went Boing Boing, then on one bounce it got caught in a fence, and as the string zipped from the spool, and concurrently around my finger at 35 mph, you can imagine the friction did a number on my finger, I am lucky I didn't lose it.

So, it is always cool to watch a GI Joe bounce around, but don't tie the damn thing to your finger, or the relationship will end badly. ;-)

Oh, and I am not sure if you are the GI Joe or the little boy with the string tied around his finger, but either way your screwed.”