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- uncajoe, on 11/29/2008, -3/+251AIG = ***** In General!
- Phylter, on 11/29/2008, -4/+206NOW you see them, unmasked! They don't give a ***** about you, they don't give a ***** about ANYONE! These ***** look upon us as a turkey slaughterer looks upon turkeys. We're just a thing to be used, then eaten, just like Tom Turkey. Make no mistake about this.
- wheresjim, on 11/29/2008, -2/+180This was enough:
Chat InformationPlease wait for a site operator to respond.
Chat InformationThank you for choosing aigdirect.com, how may I assist you today?
wheresjim: I would like to cancel my account
Maria: Hello, how may I assist you today?
wheresjim: I would like to cancel my account
Maria: I can help you with that. While I am reviewing your policy, can you please verify if there has been a change to your address, work number or email information in the past 30 days?
wheresjim: There have not been any changes
Maria: May I ask what is the reason you want to cancel your policy? There will be a $50 cancellation fee.
wheresjim: I am unhappy with the way your company is handling itself with regard to the recent government bailout it received
Maria: I'm sorry you feel this way. Eventhough we have merged with AIG, your premium or contract is not being affected by this change at all. Would you like me to review your policy today? We can verify if we are giving you the accurate rates and discounts.
wheresjim: You can review my policy if you like, but I do not wish to do business with your parent company anymore
Maria: May I have the date you wish to cancel?
wheresjim: I also got a much cheaper rate elsewhere
wheresjim: today
Maria: One moment please.
Maria: I have canceled your policy as of 11/29/08. An amendment declaration page will be sent confirming your cancellation and a refund for $49 will be mailed on 12/05/08. Is there anything else I can assist you with today?
wheresjim: Thats all. Good luck with that bailout money! - TheSkunkMonkey, on 11/29/2008, -0/+64This is exactly what needs to be done. People need to stop doing business with companies that have no regard for We The People.
If your still doing business with AIG, it's parent or subsidy companies, you are part of the problem. - budman2000, on 11/29/2008, -2/+64Being that John Q Public owns 80% of AIG now, can we have free health insurance like these thugs?
- Conwaysb0718, on 11/29/2008, -2/+59so... as a taxpayer who apparently owns a piece, when can i sell my stake in AIG? i could use the money...
- jodimcmullen, on 11/29/2008, -10/+66 AIG is fully aware that they are 'ground zero' of the credit swap insurance scam that will implode over the next couple of years. If the continued inaction of the Bush administration hasn't sunk in to your brain yet, you are still asleep and will get slaughtered. He is doing nothing to help create jobs and that is critical to reversing the downturn.
We are entering a depression that will last for several years due to failure to act by the administration. Your security will depend on your neighborhood banding together, I suggest you get to know them better. - Hazardc, on 11/29/2008, -0/+49congrats to you sir. ALL the bitching in the whining in the world wont do *****. People cancelling their accounts in masse is the only way to accomplish anything
- bwa236, on 11/29/2008, -2/+41I would rip that money back out of their hands so fast....I can't believe the douchebags that are running this company. $400k here, $300k there on retreats, knowing full well that they shouldn't be doing it (hence hiding all AIG signs and the hotel staff being instructed not to say AIG on the second incident). And what punishment? A little bad press, they have proven they can survive bad press.
And guess what...they'll do it again and again until people in congress grow a pair and say "***** you" and make them hurt.
I can't ***** believe this... - jojopumpkin, on 11/29/2008, -5/+42"AIG is fully aware that they are 'ground zero' of the credit swap insurance scam that will implode over the next couple of years."
I think AIG is fully aware that they are being used as scapegoats to divert attention away from what the real crooks are doing. The same thing goes for the, Congress, Senate and the "give the U.S. citizens to the banks" bailout bill. Here's $700BN for the bailout while the treasury throws $7.5TN out the backdoor. - DangerCollie, on 11/29/2008, -1/+36Ha! Paulson shoveling bailout cash to his buddies on Wall St. before the gravy train comes to a grinding halt. Wonder which one he'll go to work for after leaving government?
We're getting boned. - uncajoe, on 11/29/2008, -3/+37Phylter, I wish you weren't so bashful about expressing your true feelings.
You're always sugar-coating everything! :-) - voteobama4, on 11/29/2008, -1/+33If Congress had any balls it would make an example of AIG, take back its money and let the company go under.
- Echota, on 01/05/2009, -2/+32Well dressed Scum!
- kareemachan, on 11/29/2008, -4/+32Shouldn't the company be trying to get rid of these inept managers instead of keeping them? I bet they could find LOTS of younger, smarter, more eager people to take their places at a tenth the salary.
- muckemuck, on 11/29/2008, -1/+28Actually, just as in the Great Depression we're going to see this downturn last much longer BECAUSE the administration is intervening. They're propping up failed businesses and trying to reinflate bubbles that should be allowed to deflate... the same mistake they've made before.
Here.. go read what Ben Bernanke said: http://www.federalreserve.gov/BOARDDOCS/SPEECHES/2 ...
but yeah... if the administration had acted several years ago when people were telling them that this ***** was coming they might have been able to contain it. Instead they're trying to blow air into a balloon that has already popped. - Observant1, on 11/29/2008, -1/+26AIG insured police against brutality lawsuits for the conventions, is like a license to bust some American heads. the insurance is clearly unAmerican activity, they should be shut down.
- missusjones, on 11/29/2008, -0/+25Wow, altogether too similar to my experience with them...
and they STILL had to screw me & you (and everyone else) out of another $50 (cancellation fee) on the way out!
***** AIG - take your business elsewhere. I have! - douglasr007, on 11/29/2008, -1/+25Should have bitched over the $50 cancellation fee
- superman4ever, on 11/29/2008, -2/+23Perfect!
- cornerback42, on 11/29/2008, -1/+22This is ***** criminal. Period.
- voteobama4, on 11/29/2008, -0/+20Correction: OUR money.
- topgigmedia, on 11/29/2008, -1/+21Allowing Inconceivable Greed
- dalittle, on 11/29/2008, -0/+20Break up AIG already.
- MacBandit, on 11/29/2008, -1/+19Where's the Punisher when you need him!
- Super6, on 11/29/2008, -11/+29Ron Paul would not stand for such shenanigans.
- drethedog, on 11/29/2008, -5/+23We Americans should go medieval and stone to death the people responsible for this fiasco....
- deathmatch, on 11/29/2008, -2/+19WoW those fat cats just don't get it.
America is going into a spiraling downfall with this economic crisis and they just want more and more and more and more.
Why do these exec needs bonuses anyway? Its the people that deserve a bonus, the ones who can't afford to give their family a good christmas when these execs are pretty much burning money. RL situation of Ebaneezer Scrooge imo. We can see it happening, yet government does nothing about it. - ErickStevenson, on 11/29/2008, -0/+17I don't get it, why are these people getting any kind of bonus for FAILING? I would understand if these guys are actually doing a great job, hey people should be paid for the hard work they do and if they are making money for the company they deserve the bonus/incentives they get. But for a company who is staying afloat from Tax Payers money because they screwed up, I'm surprised they don't get rid of these people. Hell if I didn't perform in my job I would be laid off. ***** ***** need to go to jail for this crap, why the ***** am I even paying taxes anymore! When am I getting a bail out if I ***** up in my job! Scumbags.... I say let them ***** fail, get the tax payers money back from these *****.... This is the biggest ***** scam! GIVE ME A ***** BAILOUT!
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -1/+16No, that would be socialism.
- pintomp3, on 11/29/2008, -1/+16more socialism for the rich. a janitor gets fired when he ***** up. a ceo gets a bonus.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -1/+15I don't know why s/he's getting dugged down, this is an ideal example of recursive initialism--one that would repeat their infinite gayness forever.
- rsbryswrrl, on 11/29/2008, -1/+15I wish I had an AIG account so I could cancel it...
- thedrue, on 11/29/2008, -1/+15I think as a manager getting bonuses like that would not keep me around. I would infest them and after only a few short years be headed out the door ready to retire young with a massive retirement account!
It sure wouldn't keep me around to continue working, I wouldn't need to. - mablung, on 11/29/2008, -0/+14I could imagine he said a lot of things but he only actually said what he said. Buried for trying to put thoughts in my head.
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -1/+15Right over you head...there it goes..you see it?
- syndustry, on 11/29/2008, -1/+14I haven't seen this mentioned yet...but they've basically committed fraud.
They, claiming they would not disburse bonuses, obtained a bailout, then disbursed bonuses.
They, claimed they couldn't survive without a massive bailout, once they received the bailout, they then threw huge, garish, unnecessary parties, basically proving that they didn't NEED the money.
my stepbrother-in law is a higher up in their retention department...he's not broke, in fact, he's pretty much rich...***** him, ***** them, take the money back...show them the true definition of the word "struggle". - frygar, on 11/29/2008, -6/+19Obama hasn't even started yet, you dumb *****. If you're going to be so ignorant as to blame a president, then at least blame the ones who have already come and gone, or the one who is currently residing in the White House.
- hiikeeba, on 11/30/2008, -0/+12And all Congress has done, under Nancy Pelosi, is give the thieves your tax dollars.
The problem is on BOTH sides of the aisle. - Human2Point0, on 11/29/2008, -1/+13whataboutdave? He's a ***** retard
- muckemuck, on 11/29/2008, -2/+14Which politicians dumped money on these crooks? Work hard to get them out of office.
- nextekcarl, on 11/29/2008, -0/+11Nearly all of them, I believe. 8^(
- danwgre, on 11/29/2008, -0/+11Yeah, that would make the most amount of sense, but you have to understand that the whole point of this bailout is to keep the same well-connected people in power at these large corporations, despite their horrible failure at running these companies. In return, they will donate handsomely to the politicians that voted for their bailout, or provide them with cushy high paying consulting jobs after they leave office.
Lovely how the system works, huh?
- angusm, on 11/29/2008, -1/+11Notice that these cash awards are presented as "retention payments". This makes me think that the executives pulled the same kind of scam on whoever decides their bonuses that the company as a whole pulled on the government. AIG told the government "Bail us out, or the economy goes south." The execs probably told the compensation committee "Give us our bonuses, or we walk and you can watch the company crater."
It'll be interesting to see how long they actually stay with the company having pocketed their checks. - pgarin, on 11/29/2008, -1/+11This is despicable. You have to wonder if these people have scruples at all, but I suspect that an industry that prides itself on maximum returns and minimal payouts for people's misfortunes would foster this sort of brazen arrogance and deception.
- wheresjim, on 11/29/2008, -0/+10Yea, I'm thinking of invoicing either the CEO or Henry Paulson for that $50
- Dumbledorito, on 11/29/2008, -0/+9I'm trying to imagine "lighter skinned," but since these were pretty much all doughy white guys to begin with, I can't quite picture it unless you got Depeche Mode to pack on some weight...
- inactive, on 11/29/2008, -1/+10Off with their heads.
- austin63, on 11/29/2008, -0/+9They will pay their management bonuses, but not the regular staff. I had friends that worked there during 9/11 and the company told them due to related losses they would have to forgo bonuses that year. That same quarter the company announced a record breaking profit.
- Nauree, on 11/29/2008, -4/+12Can we be allowed to kill these people?
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