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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business
An anonymous reader writes "Business 2.0's fourth annual review of the most shameful, dishonest, and just plain stupid moments of the past year. Yes, SCO is represented..."
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... my company's hiring me, as evidently I am reading slashdot at this very moment. And we've got a patch going out today.
Mark one for the "little guy".
Dairy Queen franchisee W.A. Enterprises is docked $700,000 by a jury in Richmond, Va., after DQ employee Ayman Ahmed Hasaballa allegedly slides into a booth next to a female customer, pulls down her sweater, bites her breast, and says, "I am like Dracula." The jury holds the company responsible because it didn't fire Hasaballa six months earlier after he allegedly attacked a female co-worker.
Are they hiring?
Again... No sarcastic, slanted, political message from the editor tagged on to the end of the story.
How in the world am I supposed to know how to think? You expect me to actually read the article?
"If you want to improve, be content to be thought foolish and stupid." - Epictetus
the 101 stupidest business moves, lets hear more about this Lingerie Bowl in #10!
Today's Physics Lesson:
Generally speaking, when something is cooled down it contracts and when it is heated it expands. The chemical compound commonly known as "water" follows this rule until 4 degrees Celsius (just under 40 degrees Fahrenheit) when it reaches its maximum density and starts expanding as it is further cooled. One interesting fact is that if you read the ingredients for many common beverages (say Diet Coke for example), you would see that they are comprised mostly of this "water" substance and thus take on many of its interesting physical characteristics. Another interesting fact is that in order to make "ice" which is the common name for "water" in its solid state, you generally have cool it to below 0 degrees Celsius (32 degrees Fahrenheit). Surprisingly enough, we actually have a device in our very own office building commonly known as a "freezer" capable of cooling "water" enough to bring about this magical state change.
So what is the point of my little physics/trivia lesson? When you put an (already pressurized) can of Diet Coke into a freezer for more than a few minutes, it typically explodes!
In the future, please refrain from placing beverages in the office freezer.
The Management
The OSDN Personals ads get my vote!
This one gets my vote: In Canada, General Motors is forced to come up with a new name for its Buick LaCrosse sedan after discovering that crosse is a slang term for masturbation in Quebec. If gives a whole new meaning to "road trip." Happy Trails, Erick
http://www.busyweather.com/
Requiring TEN PAGE VIEWS to get through a dumbest moments list.
I don't know if I trust my finances to a guy who, when you look him up in the phone book is listed as Strong, Dick.
The guy's probably pretty good at "screwing" his investors.
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Overrated / Underrated : Moderation
30 On the plus side, all the applicants were buying Eclipses. "Anyone, feasibly, given enough time and enough resources, could hack into any system."--Brad Hill, CIO of Dealerskins, a Tennessee firm that hosts websites for car dealerships, confessing in September that the company had exposed 1,000 customers' car-loan applications on an unprotected website. The Dealerskins "hack"--selecting "Source" from Internet Explorer's View menu to examine the webpage's HTML code--takes about a quarter of a second.
Finally! A security hole that is exposed by IE.
See, it goes the other way sometimes, too!
What's a popup?
Wait... [thinks long and hard] ... that's one of those Internet Explorer afflictions, isn't it?
Take one of these, six times a day:
Mozilla, Opera, etc etc etc
Sheesh! Anonymous cowards these days! When I was a lad, etc etc etc
This is where the serious fun begins.
Allow that may be an excuse for the Venusians, it's less convincing an argument for those who have lived many years with water in all three states.
I've had this sig for three days.
Then there was that Jack-in-the-Box commercial from a few years back. The one where Jack is going cross-country like a political campaigner, talking about all the "great" qualities of Jack-food and associating each one to the locale he is in at the time.
When in the mid-west he is on a big tractor out plowing a field and he says, "Real milkshakes with enough buttermilk to lube a tractor!"
Two weeks later, the mid-west scene was cut from that commercial, which continued to air for about 4-5 more months.
I have not been able to drink a milkshake since, especially chocolate, my subconscious just can't shake the feeling that it is full of engine oil.
My wife was watching QVC, and I wasn't really paying attention until I saw the guy fall off the ladder. At first, I thought it was a part of the show until I heard someone saying, "It's OK, he's moving..."
Then it occurred to me that perhaps they would have a hard time selling this ladder when their own demonstrator fell off the thing on national tv!
And the best part: The host continued to plug the ladder as safe and convenient, in spite of what had just happened!
The society for a thought-free internet welcomes you.
from the article:
come on!! they had a PERFECT headline for the #1 dumbest moment, they could have had:
damn the political correctness!
Please do not use the phrase "rip-off" and "jerk-off" in the same sentence. Ouch.
"It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
http://www.powergenitalia.com/
:D
What were they thinking?
And chevy used to wonder why their Nova car didn't sell very well in mexico...
Choose yer poison: Prophets or Profits
39 They thought about changing their name, but, sadly, Whizzinator was already taken.
U.K. energy company Powergen finds itself so often confused with a similarly named Italian battery maker that it issues a statement disavowing any connection between the two enterprises. It's not so much the Italian company that the Brits want to distance themselves from as its Web address: Powergenitalia.com.
The humor . . . it is too much . . .
The bigotry of the nonbeliever is for me nearly as funny as the bigotry of the believer. - Albert Einstein
Coulda bought $21 billion worth of beer and returned the bottles and still would a made $900 million more money.
Have you ever been to a turkish prison?
SCO? Have they done something wrong?
*runs*
Escape Pod Films: Sketch Comedy and Web Series
31 Yes, it does. But your bottled rainwater idea still bites.
In February, inventor J. Hutton Pulitzer files a trademark application for Purain, which he proposes as the name for a line of processed rainwater. When the Dallas Observer mocks Pulitzer's audacity--he was the man behind the CueCat scanner flop--he transforms the Purain website into a lecture about media schadenfreude: "Sin, greed, hate, envy, murder, fighting, deception, malicious behavior, and gossip. Sounds like today's media--doesn't it?"
Purain is a french word for "liquid manure".
I hope they're planning to compete against Naya and Perrier on their home turf! That'll be an entertaining press release.
You can't take the sky from me...
Your first clue as to how this could have happened...
."Windows Me offers tremendous reliability and stability improvements..." -- Paul Thurott
. . . designed to intimidate people" -Darl McBride
You're absolutely right Mr. McBride. Now, about this letter you sent me about a license fee for something you don't have any known rights to, complete with a threat to raise said fee if I don't comply in a timely manner?
Keep talking, maybe next year you can break into the top 50.
KFG
Disney losing Pixar, anyone? Thanks for fucking them over on Toy Story 2, Disney.
Speaking of Quizno's adverts, they've had an online flash ad involving these characters from rathergood.com. Seriously.
the poor. in fact it seems to me that the last great reservoirs of racism in this country are the trailer park and the truck stop. given the fact that most racists and sexists are fairly nasty and above all STUPID people, why do people find it so easy to believe that racists or sexists can rise to a level of power where they can fire or hire within business organizations?
So, where are the last great reservoirs of classism?