I owned a DJ business for 28 and a half years
and I was part of 1700 events
and I always answered the same one.
December of 2001, just a couple of months
after 9-11 happened, I was the DJ and MC
for a company holiday party
and there were about 200 people there,
employees and their spouses and partners.
And at the end of dinner, the CEO came up
and asked if he could use my microphone
and I said, of course, here you go.
He went to the center of the dance floor
and he said, okay, if I could have
everybody's attention, please,
I just wanna make an announcement
before we start the festivities.
It really wasn't a good year.
He said the products we launched
didn't take off like we'd hoped.
Unfortunately, we are gonna have to have some layoffs
in the coming year and downsize a bit.
And of course, we lost an employee, a team member
in one of the towers on 9-11.
But, and he paused and he said,
but we have a DJ tonight,
we're all gonna have a good time.
So have a good night, everybody.
Merry Christmas.