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[Adrian Cortex @adriancortexbt]

Jamie Dimon after he made over 2,000 branch managers report their own opening hours: "morale sucks because we suck – morale will get better when we're better"

this is him explaining what came back when he compared his branches to the ones across the street, why he apologized to the whole system the following monday, and what he says culture actually comes down to

"so we collated this – our average branch were open two hours less a day – I went home – it was a Friday – I went home embarrassed"

"I apologize – I thought I was a pretty good CEO – I made a mistake – I should have recognized this much sooner"

"none of you told me – like, what's wrong with you, too? – like, seriously, not a salesperson, not a branch manager, not a regional manager"

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[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@shawngorham @AdamNMayer

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@jacktronprime @jammles9 @DataRepublican People say AOC is dumb because she has said some dumb things.

AOC is smart. Very smart. High charisma. Attractive. Likeable.

Underestimate her at your own peril.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@moseskagan TIL property ownership is a "loophole".

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@mattbramanti But to answer your question, my favorite (not in contracts, usually) is one I used to see in the summer, when trying to get a mtg together with people on the east coast.

"Call me at 11 Est".

Do they mean 11 EDT? Or do they mean 11 EST?

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@mattbramanti @SoothingDave CST is defined, though.

What if the feds change the law and put us on permanent DST... But Texas rebels and says "you can pry my extra hour of daylight from my cold dead hands"?

What then is 10am "local time"? Federal time or state time?

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@OnDisasters I have one of the tiles!

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@brah_on_mars It's not even that.

It's the way she handled it.

She will never let anything go. Errors will be corrected, and they will be corrected to her liking.

I feel sorry for her. She will never be happy, because there will always be something wrong that's someone else's fault.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@tmacosu @DonHarris4 @caydenmc Good message overall.

[Buzz Patterson @BuzzPatterson]

As an addendum:

When I was the Air Force Military Aide to @BillClinton, we:

1) snuck the president to visit the troops deployed to Bosnia for Christmas Eve, 1997. Nobody knew.
2) we used the catering truck once to get Bill on AF-1. Nobody knew.

The differences? Nobody leaked trying to damage the president and these same “news agencies” were silent.

That’s the truth.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@salesprocapital @Dark_Rift1 Not your problem.

The roofers work for your neighbors. You go to your neighbors and tell them what happened.

They deal with the roofers. If they tell the roofers to deal with you directly and make you whole, then that's fine.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@PstafarianPrice @planefag About 5% of owner occupied homes are condos.

About half of those are owned by people age 55 and older.

I'm not sure this is a meaningful gotcha.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@spicynoodles35 @MeBeingMike @JackCarrUSA whoosh

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@MeBeingMike @JackCarrUSA there was no remake

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@CrystalHope1979 I saw a woman and a child being dropped off downtown Colorado Springs last weekend. They had a little roller suitcase. Obviously heading in to beg on one of the downtown corners.

So obviously they are all scammers.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@Cr7Godbrand Also, "emotional labor" often means "listening to other people complain, so that then they'll listen to me complain when it's my turn". Or at best "remembering it's someone's birthday and getting them a card or gift".

[the Sports ON Tap @thesportsontap]

In 2003, the most hated team in the NBA did the kindest thing anyone has ever done on a basketball court.

April 25, 2003. Rose Garden, Portland. Game 3 of the first round against Dallas. The Blazers are down 2-0 and facing elimination from the moment they wake up.

That Blazers team had a nickname. The Jail Blazers.

They were, at the time, maybe the least likable team in professional sports. Arrests. Suspensions. A roster full of guys the national media treated as villains. Portland fans were exhausted by them.

Before the game, a 13 year old girl named Natalie Gilbert walks to center court to sing the national anthem in front of 19,980 people.

What nobody in the building knew is that she was sick. She had the flu. She later said she just didn't feel like herself at all that day.

She gets a few lines in.

And then her brain goes blank.

She sings "star's last gleaming" instead of "twilight's last gleaming," realizes it instantly, and stops. She looks around. She puts her hand to her face.

Thirteen years old. Twenty thousand people. National television. Frozen.

There is no worse feeling available to a human being.

And then a man walks out of the Portland huddle.

Maurice Cheeks, the head coach, minutes away from a playoff elimination game, leaves his team, walks across the floor, puts his arm around her shoulder and says, "C'mon."

Then he starts singing with her.

Now understand something. Maurice Cheeks cannot sing. At all. He is not remotely trying to rescue the performance.

He's just refusing to let a kid stand there alone.

He keeps his arm around her the whole way. He feeds her the next words. And within a few seconds, all 19,980 people in that building stand up and sing it with them.

A moment that was going to define a little girl's life in the worst possible way became the exact opposite.

Dan Patrick wrote at the time that Cheeks' simple actions had become the defining moment of the entire playoffs.

They went on Jay Leno together. CNN. Good Morning America. It became one of the first truly viral NBA moments, years before that word meant anything.

Portland lost the game. They lost the series. Cheeks finished his Blazers tenure with a fairly ordinary record and was eventually let go.

Now here's the ending.

In March 2025, almost 22 years later, Maurice Cheeks came back to Portland as an assistant coach with the New York Knicks.

The Blazers found Natalie Gilbert.

She's 35 now. Married. Goes by Natalie Zito. She's also, as it turns out, a Blazers season ticket holder.

They brought her back to sing the anthem again.

She nailed it. The whole building erupted. And the camera cut to Cheeks on the sideline, beaming like a proud father.

The two of them met before the game and hugged.

What she said afterward is why this story matters. She explained that she'd been made fun of a lot as a kid, and that in the moment she felt most helpless and hopeless, a stranger walked right over with no hesitation.

"This moment changed my life."

And then she said something even better. That she wouldn't go back and change any of it. That seeing him again and finding out he's still the same standup guy proved it was all real.

Twenty two years. One arm around a shoulder.

Follow @thesportsontap, we post a story like this every day.

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@privateeyeruss @MUlysess And then when you refuse, they tell their husbands that you demanded sex or you were going to lie and say they were having an affair

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@Glinner Don't let them move the goalposts.

They have consistently said that no specific transition requirements are necessary

[Mark E @NewHomesREguy]

@robbiehendricks I tell my sellers "hope you find a stupid buyer" is not a success strategy.