When did “large, bureaucratic telephone company” become “Bay St.”?
Posted by Dalton48 on 22 Mar 2009 at 04:33 pm | Tagged as: Business, Current Events
Star today: How I lost my Bay St. job and found true happiness
It’s a familiar story — to me, at least:-) Girl gets MBA, pursues high-paying job, is laid off/gets a bonus that makes it easy to walk away, soul-searches, finds lower-paying dream job. OK, her story has a Marley-and-Me-esque dog involved. But let’s be clear: working in marketing at Bell Canada, while undoubtedly soul-sucking, is not “Bay St.”, e.g., the capital markets. Is it the Star’s mislabelling or the writer’s?
The writer’s. She’s using Bay St as a proxy for the whole corporate sector.
That whole article made me roll my eyes so hard it hurt. Nowhere in there did she demonstrate the slightest awareness of any sort of self-knowledge or purpose. What does she like to do? What good is she contributing to society? What use is she, anyway?
Actually, it was the paper’s mislabelling…those guys on Bay St have a WAY tougher job than I did.:) If I had known that was going to be the title, I would have asked them to change it. Just thought I would stop in and clarify. Love the image in your header by the way.
Well there you go!
Andrea, many thanks for checking in and letting us know — that was my guess, and not the first time there’s been a misleading headline on a Star story in the last few days (as you can see in the post before the one on your story).
It’s been rather a crappy week so far and I have not laughed so hard in a while. April 1st is just a week away, they ought to have just kept it in the Canada. Also, Bell Telephone, to the best of my knowledge, was never called Ma Bell here. That was AT&T.