The G-20 has come to Toronto! And with it, the threat of potentially angry protesters! Guess what though? The Canadians aren’t scared. Not at all, actually. They’re not gonna be pushed around and in fact, if you must know, they’ve got a plan, for how they’re gonna deal with these bullies. Several in fact. The first is to go home, lock the doors, get under the covers and not come out until it’s safe. The second is to tell anyone listening to piss off– they’re not going anywhere. This is their house (office) and they will defend it. And you wanna know something else? They’re not afraid anymore.
While most of Toronto’s companies in the financial district are sending employees home to avoid run-ins with G-20 demonstrators, workers at the StatPro North America, a provider of asset management software based there, will hunker down. The company’s office is on the border of the “red zone” — the two-block radius around the Metro Toronto Convention Center, where G-20 summit is being held. The city strongly recommended those in the area to leave. Andrew Peddar, chief operating officer of StatPro North America, said that the firm wanted to ensure that its clients, which include asset managers and hedge funds, could be assured of uninterrupted service during the week. The campout was the employees’ suggestion. That way, they’ll avoid potential disasters on the client front and also sidestep protestors. “We have sleeping bags, lot of food and lots of liquid,” said Peddar. The axes? “In case we need to break out.”
Not sure if he’s in the minority but at least one guy thinks the whole thing is aces. Let’s do it again!
Junaid Zia, a risk analyst at Deloitte, had most of the week off. When he left the office Monday night, he said he didn’t see any protestors, only a lot of policemen. He has been updating his resume and taking courses on the Deloitte website. “They should just do G-20 every year,” he said.
Also, this is neither here nor there, but a word to the wise: this chick is watching you.
Debbie Kiladze, an underwriter at Swiss Re Toronto, worked at home Thursday and Friday because her office closed, although it isn’t in the red zone. While Kiladze seemed to have followed the rules nearly to a T, some of her colleagues may not have been as diligent. “When I logged on this morning, having slept in, a few people still weren’t on,” said a pajama-clad Kiladze.
Why did they name the economic summit the “G-20″? I mean, that is some kind of fancy private jet, right?
~AIG Quant
@1 I giggled
Toronto Financial Services… Is this the group that goes around mutilating squirrels?
A man walks into a bar with a giraffe. They both get pissed. The giraffe falls over. The man goes to leave and the bartender says, “Oy! You can’t leave that lying there.” And the man says, “No. It’s not a lion. It’s a giraffe.”
“While Kiladze seemed to have followed the rules nearly to a T, some of her colleagues may not have been as diligent.”
Story of Erin Callan’s life.
Bring on the tree-huggin hippies!
lot of uglies are gonna get laid bc of this sleepover
As the fire raged through the server room, Guy screamed to his pajama clad compatriots.. “GET OOOT! GET OOOOT!”
Thank god for those GS body pillows they passed out two years ago for Staff Appreciation week.
pajama-clad is the new killing it
Hopefully they don’t trash Toronto. Someday, we will all be working there once this administration & congress gets done destroying our industry here in the U.S.
10 – Examine your borders.
Sod off swampy!!
Still not as bad as Caribana each year
I prefer G-69
I want to stab these protesters and play around with their blood.
@15
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@all others in Toronto.
What are you guys/girls nutz? Take a break! Go on Vacation!
“working from home”
ahahhahahahahahahahahahhaha yeah sure. To me that means “I don’t do much at the office anyway”
they have axes?? i thought they were supposed to trade those?
Please bring the G-20 to Texas, it would bring memories of the Kyoto protest but with guns. http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article515384.ece
O Canada!!!!!!
@9&@19 yeah I totally agree. I would still go to work wearing my trenchcoat as usual, except underneath I’d be storing an 18 gauge pump action loaded with double ought rock salt rounds. I figure the first shot you fire into protesters would get the message across. Or at the very least a taser or pepper spray and just claim self-defense.
@19 FTW, have you ever taken a cattle prod to a hippie/liberal? it’s the best.
no terrorism threat at G20. An attack would do the developed world a favor. Arabs ain’t into that shit
@2
Change your nickname, douche, save that bullshit for the Fox Biz boards.
sleeping bags is the new killing it.
WTF? They’re Canucks; they were supposed to go to the Air Canada Centre, grab the Make Beliefs hockey sticks and give two-handers to the douchebag protestors. It’s not like the Make Beliefs use the sticks for scoring goals.
Two minutes to the Toronto financial community for not giving the d-bags what the effing need.
Detroit would give them a welcome they would not forget.