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The Scooter Store could shut down operations at its New Braunfels headquarters as early as Sunday if it's not able to line up additional financing.
In a letter sent Tuesday night to the Texas Workforce Commission, The Scooter Store CEO Martin Marty Landon said the company is trying to get financing to avoid closing its doors.
The company has obtained sufficient financing to allow it to avoid the immediate closure of the New Braunfels facility until March 31, 2013, and is optimistic that further efforts will allow the New Braunfels facility to remain operational beyond that date, Landon wrote.
However, the company has informed (the remaining headquarters) employees that if negotiations over the next two weeks are ultimately unsuccessful, they will be permanently laid off, he added.
More at http://www.mysanantonio.com/business/article/Scooter-Store-could-close-its-headquarters-by-4382278.php .
Cross-posted in Texas Group.
longship
(40,416 posts)And I really love the Depends by mail (in unlabeled packaging) and the seemingly never ending "catheters delivered to your door" ads (shipping charges are free, also unmarked!).
Delivery guy responds loudly -- so all neighbors can hear -- with, "sign here for your month supply of colostomy bags."
virgogal
(10,178 posts)cares what the neighbors hear?
Along with Depends they are needed for physical disabilities,just like eyeglasses.
longship
(40,416 posts)I wasn't disparaging users of such products, I think it may be intuited that I am satiring the never-ending advertisements for such products, most importantly the implicate message delivered in their ads! That is, these are embarrassments. I merely extended this to colostomy bags to punctuate the point I was attempting to make.
It's called satire.
Too bad Strom Thurman is gone. He might have done for colostomy bags what Bob Dole did for Viagra.
That's satire, also.
REP
(21,691 posts)Guess what: if you've had a colectomy, your neighbors probably noticed you were in a hospital and rehabilitation center for a couple months. It's a hilarious surgery one has for the funny reason of staying alive.
longship
(40,416 posts)I merely want to satire the adverts on the TV for "senior" products.
Please do not reflect my satirical post on to me, personally.
I know that's difficult in a written post here. I've been on both sides of those issues here.
I apologize if you took it otherwise. I thought that I was explicit enough that my post was satire.
REP
(21,691 posts)Yeah, that's who most of the fellow patients in rehab were - Gulf War II vets in their 20s who were adjusting to their colectomies.
If you want your writing to be understood, write it so it is understandable. When a joke fails, don't blame the audience for writing bad material. HTH HAND.
longship
(40,416 posts)Maybe we need a satire tag, too.
I intended no malignment, except to those who would market 24/7 for products to exploit senior citizens. They are already advertising, mobile chairs, catheters, Depends-like diapers, fake supplements to fix prostate problems (having to pee all the time -- BTW, it doesn't work), fucking catheters (there's one ad for guys and one for gals -- remarkably the gal's ad has young women; the men's ad not so much), etc.
I see these adverts all the time on my local TV channels -- sorry, there's no cable here, no broadband Internet either.
I report, and possibly satirize. You decide.
I apologize if I offended. If you've never seen these ads I understand why my post may offend. But my post merely related what the ads explicitly say. I merely extended it to colostomy bags as a satirical and putative extension of the already existent marketing on commercial TV.