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No we not a top 10 city in the US.:dwillhuh:

We a top 20 in the US.:smugbiden:



And when there are hundreds of THOUSANDS in this country, the gap between top 10 to top 20 aint really that much of a big deal:russell:


Thing about Charlotte is we are atleast a rapidly GROWING city. Where Philly is just..... what it is:russell:

Already still one of the top banking city and the technological design field is exploding here.

Which I’m sorry if that means nothing for people like you :manny:

But for people like me that’s AMAZING. I don’t have to go to Cali for the jobs or money I want:ahh:

Philly only has 3 of the top 100 business schools in the nation in one city
 

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Philly only has 3 of the top 100 business schools in the nation in one city



And that’s good for them.



Gboro has THE TOP HBCU school that educates and graduates a RIDICULOUS number of black folks who later goes on to find great careers

Now maybe I’m being bias, but as both a black male and HBCU graduate of NCAT.

If had to choose again, I’d still probably choose A&T over your 3 top 100 business schools in the US:yeshrug:

Any talk about schools, I’m always gonna bring up A&T cuz it’s Aggie Pride always, all the time
 

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Also, just to throw this out there just to show im not some ignorant “don’t know shyt” nicca that’s never been to Philly.

My knowledge of Philly comes from the fact that my Step pops is from there (Chester and South Philly area) and I have 2 older still living up there.

One when I last spoke to him lived in Chester not too far from the airport in this hood walking distance from Widener University (if you ain’t from up there that would go over your head).

My middle step brother is an aspiring director who already has one indie movie to his name starring Ness from Making The Band.

I be hearing a lot of shyt from him and he constantly tells me “it ain’t it” in terms of living there, matter fact he moved to Camden, NJ.

Now anyone familiar with that knows it’s gotta be some shyt if you want to move to Camden:mjlol:

Also my ex girlfriend whom I met at T, she from Philly, WEST PHILLY specifically. She was the first to put me on to MEEK and she is ULTRA PHILLY.

I remember when we was together and one Christmas I asked her for a NBA jersey for a gift. Thinking she knew to get me a Duncan one since I was a fan. She got me an AI Sixers, then later got me the throwback.

When asked if I wanted an NFL I was like :huhldup::whoa: Cuz I knew she’d fukk around and get me a McNabb:aicmon:


And even she don’t wanna be up there no more, she actually wants to come to Charlotte but life circumstances kinda preventing that from happening
 

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And that’s good for them.



Gboro has THE TOP HBCU school that educates and graduates a RIDICULOUS number of black folks who later goes on to find great careers

Now maybe I’m being bias, but as both a black male and HBCU graduate of NCAT.

If had to choose again, I’d still probably choose A&T over your 3 top 100 business schools in the US:yeshrug:

Any talk about schools, I’m always gonna bring up A&T cuz it’s Aggie Pride always, all the time


Temple graduates more blacks than 90% of hbcu's

And both Lincoln & Cheyney are in Philly metro area
 

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I’m not hosting a QC Coli Greet and meet. But you can.

I have no idea about the CMPD. Last time I was in uptown, homeless were present, but I’m not familiar with Eddie v’s so I’m not sure.

Say less.

Good lookin bro. Legendary Lineup for me. Just need Outkast. I already got something in motion though. Still might try to slide.
 

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Charlotte better start diversifying that industry portfolio.
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"Dramatic Change" Ahead: Robots Are Coming For 200,000 US Banking Jobs

"Dramatic Change" Ahead: Robots Are Coming For 200,000 US Banking Jobs


by Tyler Durden
Thu, 10/03/2019 -
A new report by Wells Fargo & Co., warns that nearly 200,000 US banking jobs are at risk of being displaced by robots.

As we've explained in the past, accelerating technological advances in automation, artificial intelligence, and machine learning have the potential to reshape the world in the 2020s through 2030. The collision of these forces could trigger economic disruption far greater than what was seen in the early 20th century.

Across the financial industry, a new wave of investment, somewhere in the tune of $150 billion per year, is being spent on technology, that will "lead to lower costs, with employee compensation accounting for half of all bank expenses," said Mike Mayo, a senior analyst at Wells Fargo Securities LLC.


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Bloomberg, indicates 20% to 33% of banking jobs will be slashed by 2030. Most affected will be back office, bank branch, call center, and corporate employees. Jobs related to tech sales, advising and consulting will be less affected, according to the study.

"It will be a dramatic change in contact centers, and these are both internal and external," Michael Tang, a Deloitte partner who leads the consulting firm's global financial-services innovation practice, said in the Wells Fargo report. "We're already seeing signs of it with chatbots, and some people don't even know that they're chatting with an A.I. engine because they're just answering questions.":merchant:

Wells Fargo joins a handful of other major banks that have already detailed plans to cut a majority of their workforce by 2030 amid the rapid adoption of automation and artificial intelligence. :hubie:

According to Coalition Development Ltd. data. R. Martin Chavez, an architect of Goldman Sachs' push to automate its workforce, said last month, front-office headcount for investment banking and trading declined for the fifth consecutive year in 2018.

In an earlier piece, we described how tens of millions of jobs across the world, and across various industries, would be lost because of robots by 2030.

The 2020s will be known as the great transformation period where corporate America abandons its workforce for automation. The coming job losses, due to automation, will be on par with the automation revolution of agriculture (the transition of farm workers into the industrial sector) from 1900 to 1940.

Robots have so far increased three-fold since the Dot-Com bust. Momentum in automation trends suggests robots will multiply even quicker through the 2020s. The collision of automation in the economy will lead to more volatility, economic swings, and social unrest.
 

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^ I work at a Bank & believe it. I can see my role being automated sometime in the future. Most of the projects I've been working on lately I automated.

Anybody seen this? City got some heavy hitters tonight. Future, Lil Baby and the Badu/Goodie Mobb posted earlier. Something for everybody. May have to slide this instead.

CC: @jayQuery Script They got your boy Westside Boogie too. (Sig)

https://www.carolina.breakawayfestival.com/lineup
 

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Man..... so Im currently heading home riding up W.T. Harris.

and I’m reminded of a quick story that I SOOOOOOO BADLY want to tell y’all.:russ:

but I’m not sure the statutes of limitations has passed plus it has some negative consequences and it deals with CMPD:mjlol:

@CarmelBarbie and @Nicole0416 strap up cuz I’m bout to go in in like 10 mins:mjlit:
 

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Ok so I’m gonna tell a quick story on my first day at my very first job I ever had when I was 16.

Food Lion in South Park Shopping Center on the South Side of Winston Salem:wow:


So I walk in and head over to the clock in station which was beside the managers office.

And I’m there about to get my name tag and apron and my manager just over there talking to another coworker and Trynna get me squared.

when all of a sudden 2 white guys in black trench coats walk up in there. :ooh:

One with a shotgun and a bag and the other with a handgun and a bible (no joke, he was even wearing a collar like a priest):dahell:

This nicca point his Gun at everyone and says “I’ve come here on Gods Will, everyone remain calm and you’ll get out of here alive”

Breh and brehettes! While he waving that gun, shyt was going CRAZY in the store people like not in line was running to the back of the store or anyone at the door was making dashing out.:damn:

People was dropping to the floor and someone left they baby in the cart by the register who was crying.

I was one of the folk that kinda dipped off but went to the deli department.:leon:

But these cats was running up on the cashiers (2 who was in the middle of a transaction and had their drawers open) just taking the cash reciting scriptures.

the 3rd in the express lane was when shyt got tight!!

this white girl who actually was a classmate of mine named Melissa. When they got to her, buddy with the Bible says “In the name of Jesus open up the register and put the money in the bag”:damn:

She starts to panic and is crying:sadcam:

Buddy with the shotty is holding the bag at her but waving the shotty at anyone he made eye contact with.

He repeats himself this time putting the gun to her temple this time saying “I said in the NAME OF JESUS PUT THE MONEY IN THE DAMN BAG!!” **gun click**:diamondbackthreat:

and she, now hyperventilating, as best as she can is trynna tell him she can’t just override and open the drawer, they have to complete the shopping procedure.:sadcam:

He start scream some other religious scriptures stuff. In the background you can hear the cops coming and the shotty dude like “we have to leave”

buddy with the Bible and handgun angrily pushes her to the floor and tries to smash it open. Then gives up and they both run out, hop into a car and speed off.

People then start getting up or coming from the aisles or back part of the store and like 2 mins later the cops pull up.

That baby in the cart still in the cart CRYING. People left purses, and couple of carts were over turn with shyt on the floor.

my supervisor was NO WHERE to be found.

Melissa was hysterical, just laying on the floor crying her eyes out.

I had NEVER seen no shyt like that in my life. And now I’m confused cuz I’m like “wtf they want me to do, work wise now”

cops started taking statements from everyone in the store and checking the cameras.


shyt became a crime scene.

like 2 hrs later only THEN did my store manager pop back up which everyone looking at her like “damn bih, where did you go”
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When shyt finally settled, I remember them sending Melissa home and Pam (my store manager) acting like she the one that had a gun to her head all stressed.

All my other coworkers walking around like:merchant:

and I remember just kinda being there..... I bagged a few groceries, got a few carts but I’m just like :dwillhuh::mjlol: “WTF just happened”

News media all out there and shyt. That night was crazy!:russ:

legit true story, I promise y’all like everything else I ain’t make that up
 

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Ok so I’m gonna tell a quick story on my first day at my very first job I ever had when I was 16.

Food Lion in South Park Shopping Center on the South Side of Winston Salem:wow:


So I walk in and head over to the clock in station which was beside the managers office.

And I’m there about to get my name tag and apron and my manager just over there talking to another coworker and Trynna get me squared.

when all of a sudden 2 white guys in black trench coats walk up in there. :ooh:

One with a shotgun and a bag and the other with a handgun and a bible (no joke, he was even wearing a collar like a priest):dahell:

This nicca point his Gun at everyone and says “I’ve come here on Gods Will, everyone remain calm and you’ll get out of here alive”

Breh and brehettes! While he waving that gun, shyt was going CRAZY in the store people like not in line was running to the back of the store or anyone at the door was making dashing out.:damn:

People was dropping to the floor and someone left they baby in the cart by the register who was crying.

I was one of the folk that kinda dipped off but went to the deli department.:leon:

But these cats was running up on the cashiers (2 who was in the middle of a transaction and had their drawers open) just taking the cash reciting scriptures.

the 3rd in the express lane was when shyt got tight!!

this white girl who actually was a classmate of mine named Melissa. When they got to her, buddy with the Bible says “In the name of Jesus open up the register and put the money in the bag”:damn:

She starts to panic and is crying:sadcam:

Buddy with the shotty is holding the bag at her but waving the shotty at anyone he made eye contact with.

He repeats himself this time putting the gun to her temple this time saying “I said in the NAME OF JESUS PUT THE MONEY IN THE DAMN BAG!!” **gun click**:diamondbackthreat:

and she, now hyperventilating, as best as she can is trynna tell him she can’t just override and open the drawer, they have to complete the shopping procedure.:sadcam:

He start scream some other religious scriptures stuff. In the background you can hear the cops coming and the shotty dude like “we have to leave”

buddy with the Bible and handgun angrily pushes her to the floor and tries to smash it open. Then gives up and they both run out, hop into a car and speed off.

People then start getting up or coming from the aisles or back part of the store and like 2 mins later the cops pull up.

That baby in the cart still in the cart CRYING. People left purses, and couple of carts were over turn with shyt on the floor.

my supervisor was NO WHERE to be found.

Melissa was hysterical, just laying on the floor crying her eyes out.

I had NEVER seen no shyt like that in my life. And now I’m confused cuz I’m like “wtf they want me to do, work wise now”

cops started taking statements from everyone in the store and checking the cameras.


shyt became a crime scene.

like 2 hrs later only THEN did my store manager pop back up which everyone looking at her like “damn bih, where did you go”
:gucci:



When shyt finally settled, I remember them sending Melissa home and Pam (my store manager) acting like she the one that had a gun to her head all stressed.

All my other coworkers walking around like:merchant:

and I remember just kinda being there..... I bagged a few groceries, got a few carts but I’m just like :dwillhuh::mjlol: “WTF just happened”

News media all out there and shyt. That night was crazy!:russ:

legit true story, I promise y’all like everything else I ain’t make that up
:damn::damn::damn:what type of shyt is this.. a bible carrying armed robbery
and why did they stay open and resume business like it was a regular part of the day :dahell::mindblown:??
that parent leaving the baby in the cart... wth?
and lmao at your manager dipping out and leaving yall to fend for yourself..
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:damn::damn::damn:what type of shyt is this.. a bible carrying armed robbery
and why did they stay open and resume business like it was a regular part of the day :dahell::mindblown:??
that parent leaving the baby in the cart... wth?
and lmao at your manager dipping out and leaving yall to fend for yourself..
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Business still gotta be business as usual:russ:

Plus Bi-Lo right across the street (atleast back then) they ain’t trynna lose no business.

I will say that Melissa was given the week off and I ain’t see her in school for like 3 days:mjlol:

Dude legit put the barrel of the gun to her temple and she like 16 or 17

yes that baby thing was crazy and I remember some old black lady trynna calm him down in the aftermath. It was a white lady kid, she came moments later crying and acting weird when me and others looking at her like

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Like 2-3 hours after that shyt when down. It was just crazy.... and fukking madhouse and mind you

THIS WAS MY FIRST DAY ON MY FIRST JOB EVER!

I just remembered feeling out of place and confused but geeking off the fukkery. A few peeps from my school worked there so we was just tripping.

Pam got ghost though, we never found out where she went. Just recall cops asking for “the person in charged and everyone like

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I think the supervisor of the Produce dept kinda like stepped up to deal with the cops for a bit :mjlol:

She legit returned like 2 hrs later and luckily the cops was still there.

I honestly don’t know if they caught those dude now that I think about it:francis:
 

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I don’t know if anyone of y’all ever been in a public hold up but that shyt is really as crazy as y’all may assume it is plus some. For me it’s like time slowed down cuz I remember so many details

Like new customers walking in the store, seeing the gun then running back out.

People scattering.

People legit ran not just to the back of the store but to the back storage/load out area to hide for safety!
 
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