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by
Todd Brown
January 31, 2009
How many millions of dollars are people willing to
shell out just for the lousy 5% of Jabot stock
Katherine left Gloria? If I recall correctly,
Katherine owned just 51% of Jabot stock, meaning the
5% she left to Gloria amounts to about 2 and a half
percent of all shares. Now, I'm no math wizard, and
I don't know how many shares of Jabot stock there
are. But I do know one thing, and it's that Jabot
Cosmetics has been on the brink of bankruptcy ever
since I can remember. With bigger and better
corporations going under left and right these days,
it's hard to believe Jabot stock even trades
publicly anymore. And if it does, it has to be penny
stocks. Paying millions for worthless stock is
exactly why this country is in the financial mess
that we're in.
In addition to being no math wizard, I am likewise
no business wizard either. So maybe I'm missing
something, but doesn't Victor's purchase of those
shares restore Jill and Chancellor Industries to the
position of majority shareholders once more? It was
only the gain of those shares that gave the Abbotts
and the Bardwells control of Jabot. Without them,
Chancellor Industries reverts to owning the majority
of shares. Why doesn't Jill just tell Victor to go
take a flying leap? It's not as if he's about to
turn around and give them to Jack after all.
I can't even imagine what Victor thinks he's doing.
I thought Ashley was supposed to be the new love of
his life and savior, yet here he is screwing her
over so he can be the puppet master at Jabot with
Billy playing Pinocchio to his Geppetto. Where does
that leave Ashley? Why does Victor always seem
determined to shoot all of his relationships in
their proverbial foot? God only knows what fate
might have awaited Sabrina at his hands had she
lived long enough to suffer it.
Maybe even Victor doesn't know what he's doing. Is
he drunk? He seems to have a fully stocked bar in
his office like it's 1952, pouring a Scotch for
Billy, ensconsed in his wood paneled wall den of
iniquity. All that was missing were cigars and dirty
jokes. I always knew nobody ever did any work at
Newman, and now I know why. They're all smashed. Is
it just me, or does Billy look vaguely Frankenstein-ish
with that bruise and those great big teeth of his?
Not Boris Karloff Frankenstein, or Lon Chaney Jr.
Frankenstein, but maybe slightly Robert DeNiro
Frankenstein.
OK, Lily has done a lot of dumb things over the
years, Lord knows, but this latest move has to go
down in the Dumbest Moments Hall of Fame. Once a top
model for a major (cough, cough) cosmetics company
where she had to be earning six figures for the tiny
services she rendered there, now all of a sudden she
needs spending cash so desperately she's chomping at
the bit to work as a waitress in a dive bar on the
wrong side of the tracks. What the hell? They are
really milking this new bar set for all it's worth.
Suddenly millionaires go there and former models
want to work there. Lily's excuse is that she wants
to work somewhere she won't run into everyone she
knows. Yet - here she is, running into Cane, once
again, the first time she ever steps foot in the
place. I swear, Lily could go into the ladies'
locker room at the local YWCA and bump into Cane.
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