by sumac | Jul 10, 2017 | Corporate Apologies
Dave McClure’s apology has the catchy headline “I’m a Creep. I’m Sorry.” Sounds promising! Then 900 words calling himself creep, asshole, selfish, inexcusable, clueless, inappropriate, defensive, crappy, shallow, shitty, and one who has lost the...
by sumac | May 31, 2017 | Corporate Apologies
It was the hi-viz vest. In modern Britain, the cheap, optical yellow, breathable synthetic open vest with fat silver reflective stripes is the sign of the workperson and of the person who needs the safety of being seen. The person waving your airplane forward wears...
by snarly | May 30, 2017 | Corporate Apologies, Funny-on-Purpose Apologies, Media Apologies
Flawless. Oscar Munoz, are your ears burning? Read the rest...
by sumac | Apr 10, 2017 | Corporate Apologies
You might have heard: UNITED flight from Chicago to Louisville, full up! UNITED suddenly wants to put four employees on the flight. Any volunteers to take a later flight? Some, but not enough! Somehow select 69-year-old passenger, order him off. He refuses to give up...
by snarly | Apr 5, 2017 | Corporate Apologies, Media Apologies
You know the one. Pepsi has pulled it from YouTube, but as of this writing you can still see it on AdAge’s site. The ad Dr. Martin Luther King’s daughter Bernice responded to thusly. If only Daddy would have known about the power of #Pepsi....
by sumac | Mar 20, 2017 | Corporate Apologies
The Next Web conference presents itself as a big huge deal. Founded in 2006, based in Amsterdam, it claims to be “an unmissable fixture in the European tech scene, bringing together a week of side events and a 2-day conference consisting of 7 Stages of content, 250...