Basking in uncertainty?
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Basking in failure
Take my word for it! The grilled cheese sammich at the Basking Ridge Cafe is to die for. Gobs of melty cheese, expertly toasted bread and a smile from the chef is all it takes!
The Taco Truck is pretty good too, you just have to catch the right Taco Truck chef to truely enjoy the experience.
Remember, you can always take calls and do some work upstairs on the second level to get away from any department Cat Ladies. I miss those days when I'd walk past 400+ empty workstations in building 5 or 6!
Cheers!
@p9 is talking out of his backside. Yes, BR, like Hiddden Ridge, is tied up in ugly lease financings.
"The Vodafone 'Put'" needed to be exercised with VZ buying out VOD or VZ would have to get VOD's assent to declare a dividend from VZW so that stock Ticker VZ could completely fund their dividends. This is partly how VOD's CFO ended up being the VZ CFO.
But to finally break away from that ugly tangle, VZ bought out VOD and here we are. The problem is not the VOD put but the people put in charge after that who bought things like .aol, Yahoo!, and 5G.
The company was flying high after VOD was gone the problems began with Hans predecessor's faulty lookout and weak telecom chops, and then Hans.
Verizon used to be the be all and end all in telecom from wireline to wireless.
Basking Ridge is leased now. McAdumbs sold that and others during his reign and his brainstorm to buy the rest of BA Mobile from Vodaphone at the hi valuation of the British Sterling. Then watch the debt pile on. He retired und now ve have Hans.
@e8
Basking Ridge was Ivan Seidenberg’s temple — a fortress in the Jersey grasslands where the Baby Bells were stitched together into Verizon. It was supposed to be the heart and soul of the company. Instead, it became a monument to executive ego, legacy thinking, and the illusion of permanence.
What once symbolized the future of telecom now stands at risk of becoming exactly the opposite:
a mausoleum for Verizon.
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Amen! Very moving, a river of tears is running to the good 'ol days
Basking Ridge made sense to only one person in the company, Ivan Seidenberg. Ivan was the former Chairman, CEO, and Co-Founder of Verizon.
Before that, he was a union card-holding cable-splicer down deep in the steaming manholes and bowels of New York City pulling dial tones together.
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Above the ground and across the Hudson in the rich grasslands of New Jersey lived the AT&T Pagoda. We now call it "Basking Ridge." But back in the day it was an architectural phenom in New Jersey. It was the heart & soul, and future of AT&T.
It also held The Divine Derrier of the Chairman & CEO who was able to luckily flush his steaming piles into the swamps around the Pagoda, while Ivan had to work it out with a can.
SO....
When Verizon was finally consolidating all of the Bell Atlantic, GTE, NYNEX, Contel, MCI people into major hubs, Ivan picked the long empty, and abandoned AT&T Pagoda. A dr-g company picked it up and put it down and cobwebs moved in until the choice of where to put an HQ was: status quo /do nothing & stay in NYC 6th Ave, move to Virginia, or move to Basking Ridge.
AT-NPV Cheapest was to move to Virginia, followed ever so slightly by status quo / do nothing, and Door #3 move to Basking Ridge where Ivan can also sit and build his own massive steaming pile while sitting in the same place as the guy when he was working it out with a can, down a manhole.
This is why Verizon is in Basking Ridge.
Methinks you should have taken the package