101 Dummest Moments in Business

Just looking around with nothing to do and I found this: Linky

I must say, there are some really really sad stuff there. Some highlights:

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Then again, viral marketing can be screwed up in English too...
As part of a cross promotion with the NBC TV show The Apprentice, GM launches a contest to promote its Chevy Tahoe SUV. At Chevyapprentice.com, viewers are given video and music clips with which to create their own 30-second commercials.

Among the new Tahoe ads that soon proliferate across the Web are ones with taglines like "Yesterday's technology today" and "Global warming isn't a pretty SUV ad - it's a frightening reality."

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Crisp. Refreshing. And only ever-so-slightly poisonous...
Los Angeles-based Fiji Water runs magazine ads for its bottled water with the headline "The Label Says Fiji Because It's Not Bottled in Cleveland."

Cleveland officials retaliate by running tests revealing that Fiji bottled water contains 6.3 micrograms of arsenic per liter, while the city's tap water has none.

Fiji counters by saying its own tests found less than 2 micrograms per liter.

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Stocks and blonds, part 2: Proving the value of expensive professional stock-market expertise...
TradingMarkets - a Web site that provides its subscribers with professional stock-market expertise for as much as $100 a month - in January invites 10 Playboy models to participate in an investing contest.

When results are tallied toward the end of the year, 40 percent of the bunnies deliver better returns than the S&P 500, compared with just 29 percent of actively managed mutual funds.

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Oh, you were doing it to keep your employees from improving their working conditions? Well, that's all right then...
Former Wal-Mart vice chairman Thomas Coughlin - whose compensation from salary, bonuses, and stock grants totaled several million dollars per year - is discovered to have cooked up fraudulent expense invoices in a scam to siphon off $500,000 over the course of seven years.

Coughlin, who reportedly told enabling subordinates that he was using the funds for a secret antiunion initiative, pleads guilty and is sentenced to more than two years of home confinement.

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In July, bankrupt Northwest Airlines begins laying off thousands of ground workers, but not before issuing some of them a handy guide, "101 Ways to Save Money."

The advice includes dumpster diving ("Don't be shy about pulling something you like out of the trash"), making your own baby food, shredding old newspapers for use as cat litter, and taking walks in the woods as a low-cost dating alternative.

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Oh... :laugh4:

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TradingMarkets - a Web site that provides its subscribers with professional stock-market expertise for as much as $100 a month - in January invites 10 Playboy models to participate in an investing contest.

When results are tallied toward the end of the year, 40 percent of the bunnies deliver better returns than the S&P 500, compared with just 29 percent of actively managed mutual funds.

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Haha.

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18. Church-run nursery school
That's not what we meant by sending a note to the teacher...
Kindergarten teacher Denise Proell is put on notice by her employers at a church-run nursery school in Dresden, Germany, after it's revealed that she also works as a stripper.

Says strip-club boss Wolle Foerster, "Denise is one of my best girls. Her garter is always stuffed with notes." Proell, who says she needed the money to pay for education classes, quits her job at the club.

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Simply rich. You'd think she'd either have to quite the nursery or both.

Simply rich. You'd think she'd either have to quite the nursery or both.

I don't really see why, if your a stripper and a good teacher whats the problem ? aslong as you keep the jobs completely seperate, though i don't see any risk of her suddenly stripping in front of the kids anyway..

Enron....need I say more:whip:

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13. U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission
Unfortunately, seat-back-tray-table-top just doesn't have the same ring to it...
Amid concern about overheating notebooks and exploding batteries, the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission in September issues a helpful tip on how to use a laptop:

"Do not use your computer on your lap."

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50. British food processor
Oh, like "monosodium benzoate" tastes so much better...
Mick Woods purchases a package of cooked ham made by British food processor H.R. Hargreaves & Son. After reviewing the complete list of ingredients, which includes "dog s**t," he loses his appetite.

Hargreaves fires the employee responsible for the prank and begins a recall of the mislabeled packages

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HA

Ladies and gentlemen, the US Government at its finest:

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85. U.S. Mint
Arbitrage, the Washington way...
After a run-up in metal prices, the U.S. Mint announces that its cost for producing a penny has risen to 1.73 cents, while that for a nickel has grown to 8.34 cents.

In addition to costing American taxpayers more than $100 million a year, the imbalance also forces the federal government to enact new regulations prohibiting the melting of coins to extract their intrinsic value.

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Ladies and gentlemen, the US Government at its finest:

I remember hearing of this happening in the UK as well, not sure if it was gold in pound coins or silver in other coins that caused it.... im assuming they just used cheaper material later on in the US as well...

It was due to a sudden rise in the price of copper IIRC. It meant that the copper in 1 and 2 pence pieces was worth more than the value of the coin.

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Originally Posted by LittleGrizzly

Simply rich. You'd think she'd either have to quite the nursery or both.

I don't really see why, if your a stripper and a good teacher whats the problem ? aslong as you keep the jobs completely seperate, though i don't see any risk of her suddenly stripping in front of the kids anyway..

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Did you notice the words :Church-Run Nursery School?, the heads wouldn't really be in favour of that, but anyway.

Did you notice the words :Church-Run Nursery School?, the heads wouldn't really be in favour of that, but anyway.

If stripping is against the morals of the church leaders i guess that is a good reason, still if it was my kid i would prefer him/her to have a good teacher that is a stripper rather than a poor one that isn't (assuming she isn't all stripper like around the kids...)