Comments on: Energy companies ramp up the slideshows… http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/ Morningstar's guide to what's hiding in SEC filings Fri, 10 Feb 2012 20:24:57 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Michelle Leder http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/comment-page-1/#comment-7033 Michelle Leder Mon, 15 Dec 2008 14:45:07 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3082#comment-7033 Thanks so much for filling in the blanks on this post. So glad that my readers are so smart in so many different areas! Thanks so much for filling in the blanks on this post. So glad that my readers are so smart in so many different areas!

]]> By: Bond newbie http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/comment-page-1/#comment-7030 Bond newbie Sun, 14 Dec 2008 07:51:04 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3082#comment-7030 Michele, here's a link to the (admittedly right-wing) think tank Heritage Fdn on card check. Expect this to creep into your filings reading more frequently: "The Employee Free Choice Act [card check] would strip workers of their right to vote on joining a union.... unions have switched the focus of their organizing operations from private balloting to publicly signed cards." http://www.heritage.org/research/labor/cardcheck.cfm Michele, here’s a link to the (admittedly right-wing) think tank Heritage Fdn on card check. Expect this to creep into your filings reading more frequently:

“The Employee Free Choice Act [card check] would strip workers of their right to vote on joining a union…. unions have switched the focus of their organizing operations from private balloting to publicly signed cards.”

http://www.heritage.org/research/labor/cardcheck.cfm

]]> By: Jo McIntyre http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/comment-page-1/#comment-7027 Jo McIntyre Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:47:30 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3082#comment-7027 "union influence-card check" is shorthand for a process being advocated by unions that would make it easier to force workers into unions. In a card check election the employer agrees to recognize a union as a representative on the basis of signed authorization cards rather than a secret ballot election. “union influence-card check” is shorthand for a process being advocated by unions that would make it easier to force workers into unions.

In a card check election the employer agrees to recognize a union as a representative on the basis of signed authorization cards rather than a secret ballot election.

]]> By: Randy http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/comment-page-1/#comment-7023 Randy Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:50:13 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3082#comment-7023 Great post! MSHA is the Mine Safety Health Administration http://www.msha.gov/. I make a few choice comments below: http://rlwilsonconsulting.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/energy-companies-dog-pony-show/ Great post! MSHA is the Mine Safety Health Administration http://www.msha.gov/. I make a few choice comments below:

http://rlwilsonconsulting.wordpress.com/2008/12/12/energy-companies-dog-pony-show/

]]> By: Brian http://www.footnoted.com/buried-treasure/energy-companies-ramp-up-the-slideshows/comment-page-1/#comment-7021 Brian Fri, 12 Dec 2008 14:34:47 +0000 http://www.footnoted.com/?p=3082#comment-7021 Well, they've nailed the "too much text" benchmark. It's shame there isn't some way to work in cheezy sound effects and slide transitions. I know the standard pp criteria don't apply in this setting and that's my point. This application doesn't seem to call for a slideshow so why are they being used? I fear this is maybe a "two birds with one stone" situation and that somewhere, at some time company staff and/or stakeholders are being forced to sit in a darkened room and look at these slides while a presenter reads them aloud, verbatim and then later pats himself on the back for embracing "new" technology. Well, they’ve nailed the “too much text” benchmark. It’s shame there isn’t some way to work in cheezy sound effects and slide transitions.

I know the standard pp criteria don’t apply in this setting and that’s my point. This application doesn’t seem to call for a slideshow so why are they being used?

I fear this is maybe a “two birds with one stone” situation and that somewhere, at some time company staff and/or stakeholders are being forced to sit in a darkened room and look at these slides while a presenter reads them aloud, verbatim and then later pats himself on the back for embracing “new” technology.

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