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Minding Your Business: National Boss Day
Aired October 16, 2003 - 07:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Economic news today. Cubicle drillers -- dwellers, rather, across the country are going to say...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Do you want to try again?
HEMMER: I'm having a good day, aren't I?
O'BRIEN: Back it up, let's do that again.
HEMMER: We love you, boss. The cubicle dwellers across the -- it's National Boss Day...
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Yes.
HEMMER: ... which means more than Springsteen.
SERWER: Cubicle dwellers...
(CROSSTALK)
SERWER: I don't know if I'd call it economic news either, really.
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: But anyway, we'll take it. Some momentous news across the country. First of all, our company formally changed its name to Time Warner. Yes, it's not AOL; it's Time Warner. The ticker changes to TWX. The Web site changes to timewarner.com instead of AOL Time Warner. The company building up in Columbus Circle at the Time Warner Center, et cetera, et cetera. Good move by boss Dick Parsons.
And speaking of bosses, today, October 16 is National Boss Day. Did you forget to celebrate this? Have you forgotten? I didn't forget.
HEMMER: He's getting ready to suck up.
SERWER: We'll provide our boss here with some chocolates.
O'BRIEN: It's from all of us.
SERWER: No, no, no. OK. I give you chocolates, you give me raise. You see, that's how it works here. And, listen, I'll tell you, this holiday...
O'BRIEN: You are such a little brownie. SERWER: Boot licker they call it. There is Will. Thank you, Will.
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: A woman named Patricia Harasky (ph) invented this holiday. She worked for State Farm in 1958. It's such a lame holiday that Hallmark doesn't even have any cards for it. So, if you don't celebrate it, don't worry, because no one does.
HEMMER: So, Patricia is sucking up more than you are.
SERWER: Oh, a little book lick, that's the...
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: We're just going to go straight to the top and send a big box of chocolates to Dick Parsons, right?
SERWER: Hi, Will.
HEMMER: A quick check -- Andy, back to the business.
SERWER: Yes.
HEMMER: Markets?
SERWER: Markets, a lot of earnings happening today. It could be a little bit weaker. We trailed off a little bit yesterday afternoon. A lot of companies -- there you go, down a little bit.
And IBM, big news, a little bit weaker on the sales front, but they're going to be adding 10,000 jobs they announced, so that's some good news.
HEMMER: Share the love, by the way, will you?
O'BRIEN: Yes, open it up. Will, you can have some later.
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Aired October 16, 2003 - 07:48 ET
THIS IS A RUSH TRANSCRIPT. THIS COPY MAY NOT BE IN ITS FINAL FORM AND MAY BE UPDATED.
BILL HEMMER, CNN ANCHOR: Economic news today. Cubicle drillers -- dwellers, rather, across the country are going to say...
SOLEDAD O'BRIEN, CNN ANCHOR: Do you want to try again?
HEMMER: I'm having a good day, aren't I?
O'BRIEN: Back it up, let's do that again.
HEMMER: We love you, boss. The cubicle dwellers across the -- it's National Boss Day...
ANDY SERWER, "FORTUNE" MAGAZINE: Yes.
HEMMER: ... which means more than Springsteen.
SERWER: Cubicle dwellers...
(CROSSTALK)
SERWER: I don't know if I'd call it economic news either, really.
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: But anyway, we'll take it. Some momentous news across the country. First of all, our company formally changed its name to Time Warner. Yes, it's not AOL; it's Time Warner. The ticker changes to TWX. The Web site changes to timewarner.com instead of AOL Time Warner. The company building up in Columbus Circle at the Time Warner Center, et cetera, et cetera. Good move by boss Dick Parsons.
And speaking of bosses, today, October 16 is National Boss Day. Did you forget to celebrate this? Have you forgotten? I didn't forget.
HEMMER: He's getting ready to suck up.
SERWER: We'll provide our boss here with some chocolates.
O'BRIEN: It's from all of us.
SERWER: No, no, no. OK. I give you chocolates, you give me raise. You see, that's how it works here. And, listen, I'll tell you, this holiday...
O'BRIEN: You are such a little brownie. SERWER: Boot licker they call it. There is Will. Thank you, Will.
HEMMER: Yes.
SERWER: A woman named Patricia Harasky (ph) invented this holiday. She worked for State Farm in 1958. It's such a lame holiday that Hallmark doesn't even have any cards for it. So, if you don't celebrate it, don't worry, because no one does.
HEMMER: So, Patricia is sucking up more than you are.
SERWER: Oh, a little book lick, that's the...
(CROSSTALK)
O'BRIEN: We're just going to go straight to the top and send a big box of chocolates to Dick Parsons, right?
SERWER: Hi, Will.
HEMMER: A quick check -- Andy, back to the business.
SERWER: Yes.
HEMMER: Markets?
SERWER: Markets, a lot of earnings happening today. It could be a little bit weaker. We trailed off a little bit yesterday afternoon. A lot of companies -- there you go, down a little bit.
And IBM, big news, a little bit weaker on the sales front, but they're going to be adding 10,000 jobs they announced, so that's some good news.
HEMMER: Share the love, by the way, will you?
O'BRIEN: Yes, open it up. Will, you can have some later.
TO ORDER A VIDEO OF THIS TRANSCRIPT, PLEASE CALL 800-CNN-NEWS OR USE OUR SECURE ONLINE ORDER FORM LOCATED AT www.fdch.com.
