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Wednesday, January 24, 2007
11:18:00 AM EST
Hearing Black Wave -- The Shins
One of my favorite annual lists is finally out: Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, in which moments of pure, unadulterated corporate stupidity from 2006 are, uh, "celebrated" and held up for public scrutiny. It includes my favorite example of total corporate cluelessness in the last year:
In July, bankrupt Northwest Airlines begins laying off thousands of ground workers, but not before issuing some of them a handy guide, "101 Ways to Save Money."
The advice includes dumpster diving ("Don't be shy about pulling something you like out of the trash"), making your own baby food, shredding old newspapers for use as cat litter, and taking walks in the woods as a low-cost dating alternative.
Yes, there's nothing like suggesting trash digging to your laid-off workers to make them feel optimistic about their future. But -- get this -- there's 100 other example of the corporate world being bad, bad, bad, many of them equal to the awfulness of that one. Enjoy.
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11:18:00 AM EST
Hearing Black Wave -- The Shins
Big Moments in Corporate Stupidity
One of my favorite annual lists is finally out: Business 2.0's 101 Dumbest Moments in Business, in which moments of pure, unadulterated corporate stupidity from 2006 are, uh, "celebrated" and held up for public scrutiny. It includes my favorite example of total corporate cluelessness in the last year:
In July, bankrupt Northwest Airlines begins laying off thousands of ground workers, but not before issuing some of them a handy guide, "101 Ways to Save Money."
The advice includes dumpster diving ("Don't be shy about pulling something you like out of the trash"), making your own baby food, shredding old newspapers for use as cat litter, and taking walks in the woods as a low-cost dating alternative.
Yes, there's nothing like suggesting trash digging to your laid-off workers to make them feel optimistic about their future. But -- get this -- there's 100 other example of the corporate world being bad, bad, bad, many of them equal to the awfulness of that one. Enjoy.
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You know, I was going to give this one a pass, until I read Joe's comment. Now I have to go click one hundred times...or at least enough times to find out which one of AOL's many corporate blunders they chose to highlight.
-Paul
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Yeah, that's the most annoying thing about it, to be sure. Although I don't think it's Business 2.0's fault -- blame someone at the CNNMoney.com Web site for that.
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Holy Spicoli -- can they include for the 2008 list, "Business 2.0 does a list of 101 Dumbest Moments in Business that puts each item on a different page, forcing readers to click 100 times to see all the entries"? And I'm not just saying that because AOL made the list twice. -- Joe
1/24/07 5:33 PM