by snarly | Aug 11, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
This morning, the web site Jezebel put up a post calling out its upper management. The post was headlined We Have a Rape Gif Problem and Gawker Media Won’t Do Anything About It. Basically, misogynist trolls have been posting multiple images of gruesome rapes and...
by snarly | Jul 8, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies
On Twitter yesterday, the Chief Marketing Officer of Equinox Gyms posted this: This wittiness is tied to Equinox’s new campaign, all tied to the notion of “preapology.” (I would hyphenate “pre-apology,” but I am a lowly apology-watcher,...
by snarly | Jun 5, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
Dov Seidman haz a sad. Surely you remember Dov. When the NYT announced it was launching a blog called Apology Watch, to be spearheaded by biz macher Aaron Andrew Sorkin, Mr. Seidman (an ethical image consultant to businesses) was the expert contributor. We promptly...
by snarly | Jun 2, 2014 | Bropology, Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies
Longtime tech blogger Anil Dash has an amusing roundup of prototypical lousy technology biz apologies, called “Every Bad Apology Your Tech Company Needs” over at Medium. My own fave: “As acting CEO, I offer an apology to our community of users and...
by snarly | May 29, 2014 | Bropology, Sports Apologies
On Wednesday afternoon, 18-year-old American tennis phenom Taylor Townsend unexpectedly defeated 24-year-old French person Alize Cornet, reaching the third round of the French Open. “After she won she smiled wide and danced in the rain,” reported the Wall...
by sumac | Mar 10, 2014 | Academic apologies, Bropology
Five students at the University of Ottawa, four in student government, were conversing on Facebook, in the hallowed seclusion of privacy settings. Student elections were going on, so there were issues to talk about. They discussed whether the student federation...
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