Thread regarding Northwestern Mutual layoffs

NM has a solution to the downtown parking problem

Let's replace dozens of coveted and badly needed parking spots to build a bike room to solve the parking problem. Brilliant idea NM. Assuming you survive all of the bullets flying and reckless drivers on your way to work, you can now put air in your tires, use NM provided tools, and even fill your water bottle. You can then work all day and tire yourself out beyond words only to ride through the same gauntlet back home. If you survive again, you can test your luck doing it all again the next day. This is a great solution for the Wisconsin winters as we all know this is the best time to ride a bike. Bikes do phenomenally well in the snow. Have leaders at NM lost their minds?

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When is the Men's Conference? Surely NM wouldn't have one but not the other. That would be discriminatory.

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Post ID: @6ccc+1roDY0XV

What do you suggest the insecure and unskilled WIT and WISE attendees do instead? These unqualified employees depend on these programs for their very existence. The rest of us love pulling double duty at work so they can play the victim role at these all day events.

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Post ID: @1eln+1roDY0XV

They can cut the WIT and WISE attendees to free up parking. If people can be gone for that garbage the company doesn't need them.

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Post ID: @1mbn+1roDY0XV

Many of us enjoy watching the attention craving losers spill their guts about their pathetic life stories on the yelling channel.

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Post ID: @1wri+1roDY0XV

NM could get rid of the people posting in the yelling channel on Slack. It's obvious they have nothing to do and don't add any value. That would free up spots.

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Post ID: @xuo+1roDY0XV

Actually, the main room for bikes will be in the Commons, where the NM Museum currently is/was....

And it appears that the 2nd space for bikes in the NM Parking structure looks pretty much the same size as the current space (in the NM Parking structure)....so I don't believe there will be any reduction in parking spots in the structure.

And let's put this in context - the current space for bikes in the structure (which I've counted 100+ at times in the Summer) would fit 6 - 8 cars....

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Post ID: @nrc+1roDY0XV

For the 2 Lance Armstrongs that ride to work on a bike the cost doesn't justify the benefits.

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Post ID: @vqg+1roDY0XV

Just because you don’t ride to work doesn’t mean others don’t. This is a positive impact to them.

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