"We'll see the industry ramp back up, go back to work and maybe in a year or year and a half, we'll be back in a normal pace," Marvin E. Odum, president of Shell Oil, a major Gulf producer, predicted.
While waiting what we assumed would be just a few minutes for the plumber, the staff downed whatever food was left in the kitchen and prayed for a swift resolution so that we could open the doors, get back to work and, just maybe, pay our respective rent bills that month.
As former Hudson's Bay CEO Jerry Storch says, "That's just a bunch of poppycock". For consumers, what happens in January tends to stay in January – everybody vows to lose a bunch of weight, join a gym, clean junk out of their house, go back to work or school and maybe start to think ahead to the Super Bowl and Valentine's Day.
"I wish that everyone would put their knives down and get back to work," says Dimon, who maybe needs to read that Mann/Ornstein piece from a couple weeks ago?
He says he will now go back to work as a lawyer, and just maybe learn to cook a few more dishes than spaghetti.
Maybe he should come back to work.
Maybe if I go back to work on the outline I'll be able to readdress this with fresher eyes.
"If I can survive and actually live, maybe I can get back to work and do 21st-century work.
So maybe Clippy will come back to work as a greeter at Microsoft's new retail stores: "Hello!
"Sometimes I'll think 'Gee, maybe Alex should go back to work,'" George says, smiling.
