The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

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The 101 Dumbest Moments in Business

Posted by michael on Friday January 30, 2004 @08:20AM from the bright-ideas dept.

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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Number 16 - Spike Lee by curtisk · 2004-01-30 08:27 · Score: 4, Interesting

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

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Since No One Reads the Article by dave+at+hostwerks · 2004-01-30 08:30 · Score: 3, Interesting

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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Re:From the article... by Thud457 · 2004-01-30 08:39 · Score: 5, Interesting

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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.)

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Did they mention... by ziggy_zero · 2004-01-30 08:41 · Score: 4, Interesting

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.

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Re:SCO is in the 81-90 section? by adamruck · 2004-01-30 08:42 · Score: 3, Interesting

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

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Memory by Sean80 · 2004-01-30 08:42 · Score: 4, Interesting

What bothers me is that there's no community memory about these sorts of things. Say I have a guy who walks into my office looking to fill a job position I have. How do I know he isn't some scum who ripped off a bunch of little old ladies last year when he was a stocktrader on the floor on the New York Stock Exchange? How do I know he's not the marketing guy who named his car 'Le Masturbation'?
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.