Hallo,
In Amerika wir ab heute ein 3 Wochen langer Pandemie-Drill in Finanzinstitutionen durchgeführt. Wenn ihr "Bankster" ein bisschen krank aussieht, keine Angst, es handelt sich nur um eine Pandemie-Übung.
http://www.cantonrep.com/index…ID=377951&subCategoryID=0
Financial institutions nationwide are undergoing a 3-week test of a fake flu pandemic
UPDATE: 7:31 PM, Monday, September 24, 2007
By MARTIN CRUTSINGER
"WASHINGTON Don’t be alarmed if your local bank teller is looking a bit sickly over the next three weeks. It is only a cyber-illness.
Hundreds of banks and other financial institutions are participating in the largest test of its kind ever conducted to ensure the nation’s financial system can keep functioning in case of an outbreak of pandemic flu.
The test began today and is scheduled to run for three weeks. More than 2,700 financial institutions have signed up to participate, about five times the number the Treasury Department expected....
To decide who is absent, the Treasury directs the institutions to assume that everyone whose last name begins with certain letters, which could cover the bank president down to the local teller, cannot come to work. The 25 percent absentee rate will jump to 49 percent in week two.
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The dollar is projected to rise as investors seek a safe haven with the spreading global illness while stock prices are projected to fall because of worries about what the pandemic will do to economic activity.
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Absent employees won’t be the only troubles facing the financial institutions. Under Treasury’s scenario, they also will have to cope with shrinking Internet bandwidths as more and more people try to work from home. Cash withdrawals from ATM machines are expected to rise sharply and getting the machines refilled will present problems because of rising absentee rates at the armored car companies and the difficulty of getting fuel for the armored trucks as gasoline refineries curtail their production. "
Ob bei so wenigen Angestellten in der zweiten Woche etwas schiefgehen kann?! Tolle Szenarien haben sie sich dabei ausgedacht und das in turbulenten Zeiten wie momentan.
best regards
BAAL