This is hilarious in a pathetic way. First Peacock colludes with the b*****ds who fired these folks and now he wants to get credit for offering them aid and sympathy. What a guy!

Since Peacock says “We’re making every effort we can to help.” I can only assume that he will show up to help get the terminated AB employess on the right track. Yea, right. I love the typo in the above article, ‘pesident’ of Anheuser-Busch (please don’t correct it Jeremiah). Is a pesident a cross between a peasent and a resident? Has Peacock done anything ‘pesidental’ since the takeover or is he just sitting around taking orders from Brito Bandito? I bet pesident Peacock will be the first one to ask to move to New York. Do you think anybody likes him here in St. Louis?

This is hysterical! It wouldn’t be as bad if they would just admit they screwed everybody and just don’t give a shit. How do 50 year olds find a new career path when all they know is making beer?

I wonder which of the Communications employees had to write this quote for Dave Peacock. It’s hard to believe that one of them could write it without being sick, since every administrative assistant was cut from their department. Communications writes all of these quotes. I doubt that Dave Peacock even saw it until he read it in the paper. Good luck to Communications to try to make AB InBev look good. It can’t be done. As for InBev helping all they can. They did the minimum to keep from being sued by older workers who were cut. Period.

The Communications Department released all of their administrative assistants? I don’t know how they could afford to. When I worked for the company, it was well known that the Communications Department was the “revolving door” of the company. The joke in our department was that if you lasted more than one year in that department, you were a “long timer.”

I’d be interested in knowing how this event went for folks - I imagine the snow dampened attendance.

I agree that the Communications Dept was a joke. Should have been the No-Communications Dept. Those within the company relied on outside writers to what was find out what was going on (outside and inside A-B). Focus and a bunch of other internal communications were eliminated. Unless it was a planned/canned press release, there was never any news. And we certainly know who won the PR war last spring and summer when InBev was on the move. Not a peep from A-B. The reason why so many people left that dept was also well known throughout the entire company. But nothing was ever done about that. I wonder how many people came and went in that group - 40 in 3 years?