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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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I'm glad that idiot is listed so high, that lawsuit was just wrong. I guess he owns the market on "Spike" huh? I was hoping the network won, but it turns out there was a settlement, wonder how much it cost to have Mr. Lee grace the network with "his name" - what a tool
Sehr geehrter Toilettenbenutzer!
I liked this one. Mental note: avoid McDonald's on Chicago's famed museum campus.
12 It could be worse. At least they're not selling wolf milk.
In July, a McDonald's outlet in Chicago's Field Museum is closed by health inspectors who discover that the food preparation area is backed up with raw sewage and that employees have changed the expiration dates on 200 cartons of milk.
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"Hmmm...upgrades."
I'll tell you what's dumb about it. They used the word "Philly". If a cheesesteak vendor uses the word "Philly", that is a red flag that the sandwich tastes like dog poo. It is the culinary equivalent to the "As seen on TV" logo.
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.
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Nice to know that my internet financial transactions are safe since they're being handled by professionals. (Professional idiots, apparently.)
the preceding comment is my own and in no way reflects the opinion of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
Clear Channel's recent decision to replace O'Hare airport as a landmark for the traffic updates in Chicago with the Allstate Arena due to a marketing agreement?
Clear Channel is worse than the devil.
I belong to the ______ generation.
no way... I would say sco is doing great for having no customers
now if this was the list of the most unethical companies...... ding ding ding we have a winner
Selling software wont make you money, selling a service will.
Maybe that's a role played by HR consulting firms that I'm simply not aware of, but my understanding is that those guys typically search criminal records and so forth.
Who's up for a web site that catalogs this sort of behaviour, easy to search, for use during recruitment? Otherwise these guys just prey on our lack of communal memory.
no way... I would say sco is doing great for having no customers...now if this was the list of the most unethical companies......
Agreed. It is not a list of Evil Companies, but companies that make bad business decisions. SCO is shrewed because they went from having a 90% chance of death and 10% chance of mere piddly survivle, to an 80% chance of death and a 20% chance of getting royalties on the second biggest OS in history and being huge. Evilness aside, the second is the smarter choice it appears. At least their future is no worse off for it. Look how many articles and covers SCO has made lately. They were a noboby before.
Table-ized A.I.
When you put an (already pressurized) can of Diet Coke into a freezer for more than a few minutes, it typically explodes!
That's a hell of a freezer for it to happen in 5 minutes or so.
Sigh. I miss the old /.
But people don't know. Just this morning Darl was interviewed on CNN where he painted the picture that those "Linux hackers" are attacking his business. Then he was asked a question about SCO's reward for leads ($250K) - could it be that the "bad guy" could turn someone in just to get the reward?
Darl's answer was - yeah, potentially... that's what it has come down to, they can't sell Linux, it's free, so they attack us to get the money.
Not exactly in those words, but same idea. First of all, I don't understand how CNN allowed this kind of interview in the first place; but more importantly, Linux needs more mainstream press (not just tech mainstream) so that all the facts are out there, everyone knows what's going on, and Linux gains even more popularity after the show is over.
I bet that's not what MS would have been counting on when they donated cash to SCO for their lawsuits.
Man, I thought that was the greatest commercial they've done! That line about the milkshakes alone had me laughing.
Fact: Higher butterfat content makes better ice cream.
I'll take one Jack in the Box milkshake over a lifetime supply of McD's artificial sludge any day.
Besides, I like the fact that they don't try to push their stuff off as being health-food. Anyone who eats there with an expectation of it being good for their diet certainly didn't get that impression from JB, and deserves what they get. I like their food, but I'd have to be insane to eat there every day.
Indeed, of all the commercial in the last while this is probably the one most mentioned by my friends. Maybe I just hang around with a bunch of sickos (well, probably), but still it obviously proves that the commercial is getting high visibility.
You might want to remember, if 10% of people ignore a commercial, 45% of people remember it because they like it, and 45% of people remember it but it bothered them... 90% still remember the commercial and have a company name quite possibly stuck in their head. How many of those will say "I'd never eat there after that aweful commercial?"
Mindshare works, just look at the SCO fud... even negetive publicity is publicity, though personally I found it somewhat amusing as well.
on the other hand, i have heard plenty of racist and sexist comments made by (1) the elderly (most of whom have now passed) and (2) 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?
the real evil is not what people think - its how people think