Post New Article

Bed Bath and Beyond CFO Gustavo Arnal
ID’d as man who jumped from NYC building,
report says

Original Article

Posted By: NorthernDog, 9/4/2022 11:54:31 AM

Gustavo Arnal, an executive vice president and the chief financial officer of Bed Bath and Beyond, was identified as the man who plunged from the 18th floor of a New York City skyscraper on Friday, according to a report. Arnal, 52, jumped from a tower in Manhattan’s Tribeca section known as the "Jenga Building," the New York Post first reported, citing police sources. Fox News Digital reached out to Bed Bath and Beyond but did not immediately hear back. The incident happened two days after Bed Bath and Beyond announced it will cut about 20% of its workforce across corporate

Comments:

Tragic decision.

Post Reply

Reply 1 - Posted by: Italiano 9/4/2022 12:00:16 PM (No. 1268268)
Kind of an overreaction, wasn't it Gus?
14 people like this.

Reply 2 - Posted by: DVC 9/4/2022 12:15:47 PM (No. 1268287)
Too bad there wasn't a huge pile of My Pillows down there. Any chance someone helped him out that window?
41 people like this.

Reply 3 - Posted by: DogFacedPonySoldier 9/4/2022 12:22:47 PM (No. 1268303)
... he's checking out "beyond". This is so sad, really
18 people like this.

Reply 4 - Posted by: Vaquero45 9/4/2022 12:26:23 PM (No. 1268306)
Sounds like he had other troubles besides work. A permanent solution to a temporary problem.
12 people like this.

Reply 5 - Posted by: PCMM 9/4/2022 12:31:06 PM (No. 1268311)
Jumped … got tossed … who knows?
11 people like this.

Reply 6 - Posted by: jj1319 9/4/2022 12:56:27 PM (No. 1268333)
Yahoo is reporting that he "fell."
6 people like this.

Reply 7 - Posted by: Hazymac 9/4/2022 12:56:38 PM (No. 1268334)
Is this CFO the one who decided to take BBBY political (and left)? As another said, suicide is a permanent answer to a temporary problem. This reaction was extremism in action.
9 people like this.

Reply 8 - Posted by: hershey 9/4/2022 1:02:28 PM (No. 1268340)
Did he know Hillary? Epstein did NOT commit suicide...neither did Seth Rich or Vince Foster....
8 people like this.

Reply 9 - Posted by: clayusmcret 9/4/2022 1:04:06 PM (No. 1268341)
Bed Bath and Beyond just the latest to prove go woke go broke is a bad business model.
13 people like this.

Reply 10 - Posted by: LadyVet 9/4/2022 2:09:44 PM (No. 1268387)
I think he was the CFO, not CEO or CMO. And fairly new to the company, not there long enough to influence the turn to wokeness. But he would have been the one under the pressure to perform. Somehow the CEO and CMO's think the accounting and finance types can just make an accounting entry to reclassify or create a "reserve" to hide the fact that the "dogs won't eat the dogfood." If the CEO and CMO cannot generate sales, there is no money in the bank. No debit ti cash. No need for financial statemenrs. End of game. No brainer.
7 people like this.

Reply 11 - Posted by: Urgent Fury 9/4/2022 2:11:37 PM (No. 1268389)
Tragic, but #2 that was funny.
9 people like this.

Reply 12 - Posted by: MickTurn 9/4/2022 2:34:55 PM (No. 1268408)
Go Woke, Go Broke, Get Broken...SMASH!
3 people like this.

Reply 13 - Posted by: JHHolliday 9/4/2022 2:35:03 PM (No. 1268409)
Sad, really, that someone would be hurting enough to take his own life. A friend of mine did that many years ago. I never new he was contemplating suicide and always wondered if I could have said something to prevent it.
10 people like this.

Reply 14 - Posted by: DVC 9/4/2022 4:35:35 PM (No. 1268501)
Always back to the basics in cases like this. Cui bono?
0 people like this.

Reply 15 - Posted by: ChattyCatsSusan 9/4/2022 9:20:27 PM (No. 1268718)
#2 voices my question. After all the high ranking bankers who died under very dodgy circumstances, I am left to wonder if this guy and the Russian oilman had some help out their windows. To toss a guy out of a hospital window shows a lot of hubris.
0 people like this.

Reply 16 - Posted by: kono 9/4/2022 9:36:03 PM (No. 1268731)
The details reported in this article seem consistent with somebody who expected to get charged with criminal stock misconduct, or maybe reasoned that his transaction somehow led to the company having to lay off so many people (and thought the guilt would be unbearable). I wouldn't call either a sufficient reason; but reasoning tends to break at the edge of despair.
2 people like this.

Reply 17 - Posted by: joew9 9/4/2022 9:48:20 PM (No. 1268741)
He should have embezzled a pile of money and contributed to Hillary and Biden and he would have nothing to worry about.
0 people like this.

Reply 18 - Posted by: franq 9/5/2022 9:07:54 AM (No. 1268893)
Living in the rarefied heights of highly-paid executives must be brutal. Money isn't worth that much.
0 people like this.

Below, you will find ...
Most Recent Articles posted by "NorthernDog"
and
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Most Recent Articles posted by NorthernDog"
Bed Bath and Beyond CFO Gustavo Arnal
ID’d as man who jumped from NYC building,
report says
18 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/4/2022 11:54:31 AM Post Reply
Gustavo Arnal, an executive vice president and the chief financial officer of Bed Bath and Beyond, was identified as the man who plunged from the 18th floor of a New York City skyscraper on Friday, according to a report. Arnal, 52, jumped from a tower in Manhattan’s Tribeca section known as the "Jenga Building," the New York Post first reported, citing police sources. Fox News Digital reached out to Bed Bath and Beyond but did not immediately hear back. The incident happened two days after Bed Bath and Beyond announced it will cut about 20% of its workforce across corporate
New Tropical Storm Earl packing 40 mph
winds; Danielle weakens
12 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/3/2022 12:08:20 PM Post Reply
Newly named Tropical Storm Earl formed in the Atlantic on Saturday morning, with the National Hurricane Center recommending residents in the northern Leeward Islands, the Virgin Islands and Puerto Rico monitor the storm’s progress. In its 11 a.m. update, the hurricane center said Tropical Storm Earl was located about 70 miles north-east of the northern Lewards. The storm was moving to the west-northwest at about 13 mph, with maximum sustained winds of 40 mph. (Snip) Meanwhile, Hurricane Danielle lost some power to revert to Tropical Storm Danielle, and it continued to slog along about 70 mph about 920 miles west
Biden has tamped down talk of a primary
challenge, for now
7 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/3/2022 9:47:22 AM Post Reply
Earlier this summer, when everything seemed to be going wrong for President Biden — his economic agenda appeared all but dead, gas prices were rising and some Democrats felt he failed to meet the moment after the Supreme Court overturned federal abortion rights — many Democrats were speaking privately of wanting a new party leader in 2024. Biden may not have faced explicit primary threats, but a handful of younger Democrats whose profile was rising seemed to be holding themselves out as more passionate, forceful leaders for the party, as governors like Gavin Newsom of California and J.B. Pritzker of Illinois spoke
Buick to offer buyouts to U.S. dealers
as brand prepares for all-electric future
23 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/2/2022 8:18:18 PM Post Reply
General Motors Co. will offer buyouts to Buick dealers in the U.S. who decide not to opt in to the brand's plans to be all-electric by 2030, the company confirmed Friday. The news first was reported by the Wall Street Journal ahead of a Buick dealer meeting on Friday. The buyout program would be open to all of the brand's 2,000 U.S. dealers, according to spokeswoman Michelle Malcho. Dealers who accept the buyout still would be able to sell other GM brands, as the program applies only to the Buick franchise. Malcho said the brand does not have a target
Jane Fonda, actor and climate activist,
diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
39 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/2/2022 8:09:56 PM Post Reply
Jane Fonda has been diagnosed with non-Hodgkin's lymphoma and has started chemotherapy, the 84-year-old actor announced Friday. She shared the news in an Instagram post, explaining that she is hopeful despite the diagnosis. "This is a very treatable cancer. 80% of people survive, so I feel very lucky," she wrote. She said she has been managing well with chemotherapy so far and intends on carrying on with her responsibilities. "I'm doing chemo for 6 months and am handling the treatments quite well and, believe me, I will not let any of this interfere with my climate activism," Fonda said. She
As Biden warned about democracy’s collapse,
TV networks aired reruns
13 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/2/2022 3:27:19 PM Post Reply
While President Biden warned the nation about threats to democracy in a prime time address on Thursday, ABC was airing a game show, “Press Your Luck.” As Biden spelled out his objections to former president Donald Trump and “MAGA Republicans,” NBC was broadcasting a rerun of “Law and Order.” CBS skipped the speech to show a rerun of “Young Sheldon.” The networks’ rejection of Biden’s speech — delivered in front of Philadelphia’s Independence Hall, washed in dramatic red lighting as Marines stood guard — marked an unusual moment in the long relationship between the White House and the nation’s most
'Racist': Chicago mayor blasts Abbott
for busing migrants to her city
18 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/1/2022 3:02:52 PM Post Reply
Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot slammed Gov. Greg Abbott after buses of migrants from the southern border state of Texas pulled into the Illinois city late Wednesday. "As a city, we are doing everything we can to ensure these immigrants and their families can receive shelter, food, and most importantly protection," a spokesperson for Lightfoot, a Democrat, said in a statement issued Wednesday evening. "Unfortunately, Texas Governor Greg Abbott is without any shame or humanity. But ever since he put these racist practices of expulsion in place, we have been working with our community partners to ready the city to receive
Less than half of Americans support Biden’s
plan to forgive $10,000 to $20,000 in
student loans per borrower
8 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 9/1/2022 9:28:39 AM Post Reply
So what’s the polling for President Joe Biden’s new plan for federal student loans, which includes canceling a big tranche of the debt? A new Morning Consult/Politico survey has found that 48% of Americans support Biden’s effort to forgive between $10,000 and $20,000 of debt for individuals earning less than $125,000 a year (or $250,000 for households). Some 43% are opposed to the forgiveness, and 9% are undecided, as shown in the top part of the chart below. Among Democrats, support for Biden’s forgiveness plan is at 72%, while just 42% of independents and 26% of Republicans back it. Among people
McDonald's US boss slams California's
'ill-considered' plan to make big fast-food
chains pay workers up to $22 an hour -
as Gov. Newsom considers whether to sign
the controversial bill
24 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 8/31/2022 7:53:02 PM Post Reply
The head of McDonald's US operations has publicly slammed a proposed California law that could force large fast food chains to pay workers up to $22 an hour, saying the plan 'should raise alarm bells across the country.' McDonald's USA President Joe Erlinger spoke out in an open letter on Wednesday, arguing that California's plan is unfairly designed and will raise costs further for consumers. He was responding to a bill that could set wages at fast-food chains with more than 100 restaurants at $22 an hour next year, well above the existing statewide minimum of $15.50 an hour for
Dealership Quotes $30,000 to Replace Battery
in a $10,000 Chevrolet Volt
23 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 8/30/2022 8:52:35 PM Post Reply
A Chevrolet Volt owner in Florida was shocked to receive a $30,000 quote for a replacement battery from a dealership, reports CarScoops. The quote in question comes from Roger Dean Chevrolet in Florida, and regards a battery replacement for a 2012 Chevrolet Bolt. The cost of the new battery itself comes in at $26,853.99. Further charges include $33.98 for coolant and $1,200 in labor. Add tax and the total bill comes to $30,842.15. It's a steep price, particularly when a brand-new Chevrolet Bolt with a far larger battery can be had for a base price of $26,595. The enormous figure
Hospital goes on alert after another robbery
outside Children's Minnesota
5 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 8/30/2022 4:52:19 PM Post Reply
MINNEAPOLIS - An alert was issued Monday afternoon at Children's Minnesota after a man was robbed outside the hospital, the latest in a string of violent trouble at the hospital. Police say the victim was robbed at gunpoint shortly after 1 p.m. but was able to run into the emergency room to get help after the fact. The victim was not hurt but had personal items taken, hospital officials added. No suspects are in custody. (Snip) "(It) makes me sick to my stomach thinking that every time I walk into work, there's a chance that I could be next," they told
New Jersey banned plastic bags. So, people
are stealing grocery store shopping baskets
22 replies
Posted by NorthernDog 8/30/2022 10:34:16 AM Post Reply
MIDDLETOWN, N.J. — Grocery store customers are walking off with those plastic hand baskets you find in the supermarket, an apparent consequence to New Jersey's plastic bag ban that went into effect this past spring. "They are just disappearing," said Louis Scaduto Jr., chief executive officer of Middletown-based Food Circus Super Markets, which owns four Super Foodtown stores in Monmouth County, in the northeastern part of the state. "I may actually have to just do away with them soon, can't afford to keep replacing them," Scaduto wrote in a text message. (Snip) Last May, New Jersey implemented the strictest carryout bag
Most Active Articles (last 48 hours)
Barf: Hillary Clinton Reveals What 'Suggestive'
Situation Forced Her Into Wearing Pantsuits
43 replies
Posted by Hazymac 9/5/2022 4:16:35 PM Post Reply
Sheesh. This is a tough one, but someone has to write about former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton recently letting the cat out of the bag regarding why she switched to almost exclusively wearing her signature pantsuits throughout her political career. A long-held secret. In a recent interview with CBS News’s Norah O’Donnell, Clinton and her daughter Chelsea sat down at a diner and discussed their new eight-part Apple TV+ docuseries Gutsy, which is based on The New York Times bestselling book The Book of Gutsy Women. After discussing various topics in the upcoming series, O’Donnell changed direction, saying to Hillary, “You also reveal why you wear a pantsuit?”
YIKES: Australian Bank To Stop Lending
For Gas-Powered Cars, Loans Only Available
For Electric Vehicles
29 replies
Posted by Rush Was Right 9/5/2022 9:45:41 AM Post Reply
As shocking as it is unsurprising, an Australian bank chain is providing a terrifying glimpse into the dystopian future that awaits everyone who still believes man-made climate change is worse than chains. In an August press release, Bank Australia made the stunning announcement that it would cease lending to prospective new car owners in 2025 if the vehicle of their choosing relied on tried-and-true combustion. Instead, new car owners would only be able to procure a new car loan if there are expensive lithium batteries propelling the wheels.
Could Biden’s Divisive Rhetoric Cost
Democrats Congress?
29 replies
Posted by Garnet 9/5/2022 2:53:45 AM Post Reply
In President Joe Biden’s 2007 memoir, Promises to Keep: On Life and Politics, he wrote that the late Sen. Mike Mansfield (D-Mont.) gave him the best advice he ever received: “Joe, never attack another man’s motive, because you don’t know his motive.” Judging from Biden’s increasingly belligerent speeches, he has forgotten Mansfield’s eminently wise counsel. This was rendered abundantly clear during his Thursday speech at Independence Hall in Philadelphia. Standing before a backdrop that looked as if it had been designed by Leni Riefenstahl, he attacked the motives of half the electorate.
California Extends ‘Flex Alert,’ Warns
Drivers Not to Charge Electric Cars
27 replies
Posted by earlybird 9/5/2022 1:06:05 PM Post Reply
Authorities in California extended a “Flex Alert” telling residents to conserve energy, including not charging their electric vehicles, on Sunday afternoon and evening. The alert has been in effect for several days in the midst of a heat wave that is slated to last through Labor Day. The California Independent System Operator, the manager of the state’s power grid, issued the statewide Flex Alert from 4 to 9 p.m. Residents are urged to set their thermostats to 78 degrees Fahrenheit or higher, avoid using major appliances, avoid charging electric vehicles, and turning off unnecessary lights.
New York City officials line up to SHAKE
HANDS with migrants after being bused
in from Texas: Families are handed blankets
and escorted to Manhattan hotels
27 replies
Posted by Ribicon 9/5/2022 10:42:58 AM Post Reply
Busses of migrants sent to New York City from Texas were welcomed with handshakes and an official escort from members of Mayor Eric Adams' administration in Manhattan Sunday. Texas Governor Greg Abbott has ordered over a dozen buses of migrants to the Big Apple, Chicago, and Washington DC in an attempt to show them the nature of the crisis at the border. So far, Texas has forked out nearly $13million to Wynne Transportation—the charter service that is taking migrants to the various cities. Around 44 migrants got off Sunday's bus, which was ordered to New York by El Paso Mayor Oscar Leeser.
ABC News Is Now Asking Uncomfortable Questions
About Biden, Shady Dem Tactic of Boosting
MAGA Candidates
26 replies
Posted by Dreadnought 9/5/2022 1:35:24 AM Post Reply
During this primary election cycle, a deceptive ploy by Democrats to get their candidates an easier ride into office has emerged–funneling campaign ad dollars into efforts to get the opponent of their choosing on the other side. The topic was brought up Sunday, surprisingly, during ABC News’ “This Week With George Stephanopoulos,” by co-host Martha Raddatz. Earlier in the program, as my colleague Bonchie shared, former mayor of Atlanta and current Biden senior adviser Keisha Lance Bottoms doubled down on the dangerous, hateful rhetoric President Joe Biden spewed
Biden gives MAGA Republicans a new name
- 'Trumpies' - and calls heckler an 'idiot'
who is 'destroying democracy': President
launches latest attack on 'extreme right'
in Wisconsin Labor Day speech
25 replies
Posted by Ribicon 9/5/2022 6:56:29 PM Post Reply
President Joe Biden rolled out a new nickname for MAGA Republicans on Labor Day during a lively speech where he also walked back comments suggesting Donald Trump's supporters believe in 'semi-fascism.' During his speech in Wisconsin on Monday, the president denounced the former president's followers as 'Trumpies' and claimed politicians on the 'extreme right' of the GOP are 'coming for your social security' and destroying worker pensions. At one point Biden was interrupted by a heckler—though he told Secret Service to 'let him go.' 'Everybody's entitled to be an idiot,' the president said to scattered laughter. And despite clarifying early on that 'not every Republican is a MAGA Republican,
Biden Barely Draws a Few Dozen Supporters
at Labor Day Rally in Pennsylvania Two
Days After Trump Drew Over Ten Thousand
at Wilkes-Barre Rally
23 replies
Posted by Imright 9/5/2022 7:06:12 PM Post Reply
Joe Biden was greeted by a few dozen supporters at a Labor Day rally a steelworkers union hall in West Mifflin, Pennsylvania late Monday afternoon, according to videos and photos posted by press from the rally, including this screen image and photo by TribLive’s Ryan Deto.(Tweet/Video) The sparse turnout for Biden in his homes state comes two days after President Trump packed the 10,000 seat Mohegan Sun Arena at a rally in Wilke-Barre. The crowd in West Mifflin for Biden is even smaller than the one for his own Wilkes-Barre rally that preceded Trump’s that drew a few hundred.
Labor Day Weekend in Chicago: 46 Shot
Friday into Monday Morning
17 replies
Posted by Imright 9/5/2022 12:29:32 PM Post Reply
Forty-six people were shot Friday into Monday morning of Labor Day weekend in Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s (D) Chicago. Seven of the 46 shooting victims succumbed to their wounds. Breitbart News reported that 17 people were shot, four of them fatally, Friday into Sunday morning alone. ABC 7 / Chicago Sun-Times noted three additional shooting fatalities, the first of which occurred Saturday night at 11:15 p.m., when a 29-year-old man was shot and killed “in the 6600-block of South Evans Avenue” following an argument. Minutes later, police responded to the sound of gunshots “in the Old Town neighborhood’s
Come on, Hurricanes, Get With the Climate
Change Program
17 replies
Posted by ladydawgfan 9/5/2022 10:08:34 AM Post Reply
The Weather Channel notified us on August 31 that “Rare Hurricane Season August Shutout Possible.” Really. “August is one of the core months of [the] Atlantic hurricane season.” But none this August. Only once since 1966 has there been a failure of a least one tropical storm to develop in the year’s eighth month. A few days prior to the publication of this article, the Weather Channel told us, “Atlantic Gets Busier; 4 Areas to Track Now.” Please! We need a hurricane to confirm that such climate disasters are indeed increasing like we say they are! A few dead bodies are imperative!
Poll: Senate Race Is Shockingly Close
in, Wait for It, Washington
16 replies
Posted by Imright 9/5/2022 3:17:49 PM Post Reply
We've been hearing an awful lot, even from Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) himself, that Republicans taking back control of the Senate isn't as likely to happen, due to "candidate quality." It's worth noting that forecasters still have it as a "Toss-Up," or for Democrats only slightly favored to keep control of the chamber, as many races are tight in key seats. One of them, surprisingly enough, is in Washington state, where Sen. Patty Murray, the Democratic incumbent, is just a few percentage points ahead of her Republican challenger, Tiffany Smiley. This is according to a recent poll from the Trafalgar Group.
I Am a MAGA Republican, and Donald Trump
is My Weapon
16 replies
Posted by earlybird 9/5/2022 12:00:36 PM Post Reply
At a national level there is a unique policy priority that almost every politician, on both sides, will avoid discussing. At a national level a single policy priority determines all other national policy issues. That policy is the national economic policy. The national economic policy of a presidential candidate determines all other national policies that flow from the presidential candidate. The national economic policy impacts the obvious policies like energy and trade, and also determines the lesser obvious policies like regulation and even foreign policy. It is specifically because a candidate’s national economic outlook impacts all other issues, that most national politicians never talk about it.
Post New Article