All The Excess! wishes to apologize to Ennui Broadcasting for publishing a rumor that the company had pink-slipped 135 employees under the cover of the Derf Kimbrough rehab hubbub. The story proved to be unfounded, and we have severely punished the A.T.E.! reporter who submitted the item.Meanwhile, 135 management level Ennui employees were ordered to take a ten per cent pay cut on Friday, which may have led to the exaggerated rumor.
All The Excess! hears that Ennui managers have developed a company-wide game to help recover some of the losses from recent pay cuts. A football pool-type grid is passed throughout the company, and employees buy squares containing numbers. The employee with the square that has the number corresponding to Ennui's percentage of revenue decline that month wins the pool. To break any ties, employees must correctly guess the number of times the word "challenging" is used by Ennui execs in describing current economic conditions to the press.
