{"id":177,"date":"2006-01-26T06:54:00","date_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:54:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/oranchak.com\/crackbaby\/?p=177"},"modified":"2006-01-26T06:54:00","modified_gmt":"2006-01-26T11:54:00","slug":"dumbest-moments-in-business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=177","title":{"rendered":"Dumbest moments in business"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/money.cnn.com\/magazines\/business2\/101dumbest\/\">(via Business 2.0)<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><i>Winner, Dumbest Moment, Outsourcing<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Told you we shouldn&#8217;t have rented that list from the Department of Homeland Security.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Blaming a mailing-list vendor for providing bad information, JPMorgan Chase apologizes for sending a form letter about its credit card services to an Arab American man in California addressed to &#8220;Palestinian Bomber.&#8221;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>Another good one:<\/p>\n<p><i>Winner, Dumbest Moment, Public Relations<\/i><br \/>\n<b>Men, on the other hand, have a charming self-destructive quality.<\/b><\/p>\n<p>Speaking at an ad industry event in Toronto, WPP Group&#8217;s worldwide creative director, Neil French, says there aren&#8217;t more female creative directors &#8220;because they&#8217;re crap&#8221; and they eventually &#8220;wimp out&#8221; and &#8220;go off and suckle something.&#8221; French speaks from a stage decorated as a hunting lodge while being served drinks by a woman in a skimpy maid&#8217;s outfit, of whom he asks, &#8220;Could you lean over a bit more?&#8221; Two weeks later WPP accepts French&#8217;s resignation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(via Business 2.0): Winner, Dumbest Moment, Outsourcing Told you we shouldn&#8217;t have rented that list from the Department of Homeland Security. Blaming a mailing-list vendor for providing bad information, JPMorgan Chase apologizes for sending a form letter about its credit &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/?p=177\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-177","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=177"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/177\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=177"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=177"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oranchak.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=177"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}