At this point most everyone seems to realize that financial markets are anything but calm. While many brokers are apprehensively biting their fingernails in hopes that they don't sink all of their clients retirements accounts, Tony Domozzi is thinking "inside the box" so to speak, the pizza box that is.
Jena Sweeny an administrative assistant and self admitted afternoon "facebooker" from Minneapolis had reached a point of desperation watching her 401K slowly wither away due to the faltering stock market. After five years of contributing more than $50 per paycheck, her account has now dwindled to a crushing $686.00.
"I was sooooo pissed off," Sweeny said. "I mean, like, the same CEOs who make more money in five minutes than I make in an entire year are some of the same people who are now getting bailed out!"
Financial Broker Tony Domozzi, of Spangler & Domozzi, Ltd remembers the incident quite well. "Jena called me and was basically screaming into the phone at me," Domozzi said, "as if it were my fault."
Domozzi had assumed Sweeny's account when Spanger & Domizzi had taken over for Westwood Capital Management in 2005. "Although anything regarding her account is strictly confidential, what I can tell you is that she wasn't exactly Warren Buffet in terms of her investment decisions," Domozzi noted. Domozzi recalls that is was this same analogy that sent Sweeny into a rage.
"He actually said something about me not being Warren Buffet so I referred to him as Chef Boyardee and he called me anti-Italian and I told him that actually I love pizza and he said pizza wasn't invented in Italy it was invented in America and I said, 'Good, then I'll put all my damn money into pizza!," Sweeny said.
True to her word, Sweeny called Pizza Luce in Minneapolis and had them deliver almost $700 worth of pizzas to all the people who had helped her over the last five years. She also asked them to send a thank you card to Tony Domozzi.
"I got about fifteen cards," Domozzi said. "It was really quite nice."
Sweeny meanwhile has quit her job at Olson-Richardson and has applied to deliver pizzas for Pizza Luce. "It?s my calling," she says about her new job. "The tips I get don?t disappear into the pockets of some fat cat CEO? Only the pizza does."