Viya Bar and Grill

With all the postings The Layoff receives regarding SAS, I see a business opportunity!

One of the SAS Old Timers should open the "Viya Bar and Grill" in the Bass Pro Shops Plaza across the street from SAS. There, former SAS employees could pull up a stool and drink a cold one while discussing the good ole days, and offering analysis on what SAS should have been done and what SAS should do next.

Patrons could play darts while debating diverse topics such as Layoffs, SAS history, Lost University Opportunities, West Coast coding interviews, A players, missing security footage, children of questionable parentage. The decor could include old SAS manuals, floppy disks, and nostalgic pictures of JHG and the Old Timers gathering software and boxes together for shipment.

There could be monthly Bosley Karaoke Nights, where people dress up as the former Corporate Attorney, get on stage and sing about about their favorite shell companies and papered over scandals.

Quarterly, there could be Donny Karoke, where folks dress up like the longtime Corporate Controller and sing about direct reports and no-show jobs, curious allowances, and all things estate maintenance.

Who's in on this? This could be a much more exciting and fruitful endeavor than discussing SAS on TheLayoff. Do you think Mrs. Goodnight, or Junior would be an investor?

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No, no, no. It was not called Building RP. It was called Building N for Newtons Southwest, which was there long before RP but used for the same type of meetings.

It was a very private situation. JG plus top executives or other invitees. SAS European “kings” of 20+ years ago were frequent guests. There was also a regulation skeet range out in the woods, but It was demolished during excavation for building C. Major boys club! I hear they had some spectacular JetSki races on the lake behind the founder”s mansion. Apparently there was a crash at one point.

A bar in the rustic old cabin? Did anyone see this, or is this urban legend?

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That's yet another business opportunity. For a price, we'll all stop talking :-)

Across the street from CCRC. He-l, it could be part of the basement café/cafeteria in the converted building A (flagship building of the OSRV (Ole SAS Retirement Village).

An alternative would be a greatly expanded "Papa Jim's rustic cabin" somewhere on the property yet off the beaten path. There was a bar in the current incarnation, just opposite the founder's mansion.

Of course an app would be needed to summon transportation for those too drunk to walk/golf cart back to their CCRC retirement digs. We would not want a repeat of BIG DATA (although the incident occurred well before this title was conferred) driving his car through one of the security gates.

RP is code for Rally Point.

In a completely unrelated note, I've been wondering how much thelayoff.com is worth and what is JG's price where he would gladly buy it just to snuff all this talk?

I heartily approve this plan, if we can shift the venue across the street to the SAS Continuing Care Retirement Center (SAS/CCRC).

That way, when I want to reminisce in my old age, I'll only have to hobble a few steps :-)

RP? Please decode.

Did you mean PR on Hillsborough Street? Of course, that would likely only be the NC State contingent.

How do you not know about building RP? That's where the "SAS Old Timers" have been meeting for years.

LMAO ... there are lifetimes of drama in the OP!

Anyone else remembet Building N (aka Newton's Southwest) on the seedier side of said plaza? It was quite a SAS hang in the day! Before that, TK Tripps (now Orvis) was a popular old-school SAS watering hole!

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