Comments on: Burton cuts salaries, lays off 5% of workforce

By: bigdood

bigdood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 18:18:10 +0000

Sounds just like living in paradise

By: A.

A. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:58:46 +0000

My portfolio:
410k
David Lee Roth IRA
vinyl records because man fuck a CD

I HAVE NO IDEA WHY I AM STILL BROKE WTF

By: bigdood

bigdood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:34:00 +0000

I noticed that and just figured you were doing better than me and my 4.01K

By: A.

A. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:30:12 +0000

LOL @ “410k”… You can tell I’m financially sound.

dammit.

By: A.

A. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:26:11 +0000

“…but you can farm it out to chinese and sell it at Walmart…”

speaking of patents: Voile?

YO IT MEANS “VEIL” ALA FRANCAISE BRO AKA THEY PULLING THE VEIL OVER YOUR EYES

By: bigdood

bigdood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 17:07:55 +0000

I’ve got to admit though that I’ve been searching ebay and the webs hard for one of those old “Boycott Burton cuz you can’t patent fun” stickers that were all over the lift towers at Acres back in the day

By: bigdood

bigdood — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 16:42:12 +0000

Yeah, you’ve got to give it up for them. They’ve built the company and have certainly had numerous opportunities to sell but never have – something other ‘core’ boardsport brands (Hurley, Forum, Mervin) can’t claim.

By: A.

A. — Thu, 26 Mar 2009 15:13:28 +0000

I cannot imagine how much money dude has:

“The shareholders at Burton are my wife Donna and myself…” is such a rad thing to be able to say…

Still matching 410k’s? Not too bad.

As much as I want to hate on the Big B, the fact that one dude–the same dude–is running the show is just about the biggest Mitigating_Factor ever…

good luck Burton…I guess. LOL