by sumac | Mar 16, 2015 | Corporate Apologies
I recently flew to a college town, inexplicably the site of a marvelous wildlife symposium. The flight there and back involved 4 legs. I selected seats on 3 of the legs. To save money, I didn’t take advantage of airline offers to upgrade the seats for extra...
by snarly | Feb 9, 2015 | Corporate Apologies, Institutional Apologies, Personal Apologies
Here’s an old apology story with an update. Remember when Facebook threw that “Hey, [your name], here’s what your year looked like!” party that showed up in your timeline shortly before New Year’s Eve? Most had the caption:...
by sumac | Jan 15, 2015 | Corporate Apologies
Back in December, an interesting couple in Wilmington, Delaware wanted to do something nice for a small group of homeless people. It was very cold, so why not get them a room for Christmas night? Deb Bennett, co-founder of the Road to Redemption Ministries, thought of...
by sumac | Dec 14, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
In the first class section of your flight, you may expect the tender luxury to begin with a serving of nuts. But some people are allergic to nuts (or dislike them), so the flight attendant should ask if you would like nuts. These nuts should be served to you in a...
by sumac | Dec 2, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
Often, when I start to tell telephone solicitors that I won’t send money or give them my password, they hang up. So rude. They called me, and then they hang up on me? Sometimes I actually need to talk to them, for example to explain that they have called a home,...
by sumac | Oct 24, 2014 | Corporate Apologies
It was a great get. The CEO of Microsoft agreed to speak at the Grace Hopper Celebration of Women in Computing conference as their first male plenary speaker. He ran around talking to people, and then did an onstage interview. This was not a hostile interview, not a...