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- Daddaluma, on 10/12/2007, -1/+31Richard D. Boner? That's got to be a joke.
I can't believe there are parents with the last name Boner cruel enough to name their son "Dick" - inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+23I have #102. Web site who think that readers are going to go through a 101 worst list ONE BY ONE just to try to get a few extra ad revenue bucks.
Even TWENTY would be too much to go through one at a time. 101 is just plain ridiculous. - Rikushix, on 10/12/2007, -0/+85. Kazakhstan
Throw the cash down the well...
Amid efforts by Kazakhstan to prove it's not the backward land portrayed in the movie Borat, the nation's central bank misspells the Kazakh word for "bank" on its 2,000- and 5,000-tenge notes.
Priceless. - neuropsychguy, on 10/12/2007, -0/+8A couple of my favorites:
"36. Catawba County
In June the school district of Catawba County, N.C., files for an injunction to prevent Google from displaying students' names, test scores, and Social Security numbers - information picked up through a routine crawl of the Web.
The district claims that the data is password-protected; Google points out that it can't crawl password-protected webpages. Judge Richard D. Boner nonetheless grants the injunction, and Google removes the pages."
"39. Greece
In September, Greece announces that its gross domestic product since 2000 has been revised upward by an unheard-of 25 percent. The secret to its newfound wealth?
A change in bookkeeping that adds in the nation's robust black-market industries such as prostitution and money laundering. But becoming "richer" turns out not to be as good as it sounds: The revised GDP figures cost the Greek government as much as $600 million annually in European Union funds earmarked to help poorer nations." - crashflow, on 10/12/2007, -0/+5i love how CEOs and PR people make things even worse by trying to explain them away
67. Sony
Mighty white of you...
Sony runs a billboard campaign in the Netherlands depicting a Caucasian model rudely gripping the jaw of a woman of African descent to promote its PlayStation Portable in "ceramic white."
Sony initially defends the campaign, saying it was meant to "highlight the whiteness of the new model," but later apologizes. - MercuryOne, on 10/12/2007, -1/+6Girls really like it when you take them for private walks in the woods on the first date.
- Toast1185, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I have to click next 101 times :'( I'll just be doomed to repeat history's mistakes instead. I'll note the first few though
- ArchieAndrews, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3This one stuns me:
15. Wal-Mart, Part 2
Perhaps Michael Richards will be able to find work after all...
Availing itself of PR firm Edelman's deep political connections, Wal-Mart recruits civil rights leader and former U.N. ambassador Andrew Young to chair its company-funded Working Families for Wal-Mart.
In an August interview with an African American newspaper in Los Angeles, Young says the megaretailer "should" displace its urban corner-store competition.
"You see, those are the people who have been overcharging us.... I think they've ripped off our communities enough. First it was Jews, then it was Koreans, and now it's Arabs." - Lane5slacker, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3Looks like the submitter stopped as well. The one he referenced was #2.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -1/+4I submitted a similar story, exactly a year ago (in two days), yet unrelated to this post
http://digg.com/tech_news/101_Dumbest_Moments_in_Business
direct http://money.cnn.com/magazines/business2/101dumbest/full_list/
I just find that interesting - zxof, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3#77 is my fav
Bank of America
In related news, the Department of Corrections has announced that death-row inmates will now be required to pedal stationary bikes to power Old Sparky...
After Bank of America announces plans to outsource 100 tech support jobs from the San Francisco Bay Area to India, the American workers are told that they must train their own replacements in order to receive their severance payments. - mutabi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+3I totally agree. I looked at three, and thats it.
- leer317, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Did anyone read all 101? I stopped at 9...
- AkatsukiNoTobi, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2If someone was named Dick and had the last name Boner, then his future would already be determined.....
- TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2I could never forget that name
http://www.digg.com/tech_news/School_Finds_Out_It_s_Not_Google_s_Fault - allhard, on 10/12/2007, -1/+3Number 23 is wrong.
They are not unrelated products sharing a name, they are just two products under the Windows Live brand.
http://money.cnn.com/galleries/2007/biz2/0701/gallery.101dumbest_2007/23.html - GTanaka, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2w. t. f.
How, exactly, did he get his job at the UN in the first place? - G-RaZoR, on 10/12/2007, -0/+2Thats pitiful, If anyone seriously has the time to look at each one of those 1-by-1, then they seriously need to go outside.
Absolutely ridiculous. - MrObjectional, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1@fudged
I appreciate that link, although I'm sure some people will digg you down for calling dupe.
I for one think that unlike a lot of dupes popping up recently, this is one that may have slipped beneath the radar the first time, and a year plenty time to bring it up again. Plus, with the new categories, this story is more likely to find the right people than it would be a year ago. - Leviathan777, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1It's actually the best "best/worst of" list I've read for 2006, head and shoulders. There's virtually nothing on there that doesn't serve as a cautionary tale of how not to do business. And it's just ONE SINGLE YEAR!!!
Yeah, I was waiting for a compile to finish, and I read them ALL.
One of my personal favorite's is Tesco's stripper pole "toy". Hey, I know just what to get 10-year old Cayleigh / Kaylee / Cae-lee / Kayleah / etc for her birthday! A stripper pole with a garter and fake money! She and her cousins Dakota and Destinee will love it!
Another one was the company that gave employees a free iPod, then later fired 400 employees and demanded the iPod back. I wonder how many actually gave them back in working order and not soaked in urine? - nkthen, on 05/13/2008, -0/+1Getting bankrupt is always the dumbest thing...
http://www.outofbankruptcy.info - chrisk9, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1OJ's "If I did it" (#80) should be much higher in the list.
- inactive, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1money.cnn.com is like "Money for Idiots(tm)....with big pictures. Now with MORE TRITE!!!".
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Thats a good one. Hahaha.
- chetanw, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Besides, as you go lower, the quality of the blooper drops too!! Some are hardly funny.
- mandarin, on 10/12/2007, -0/+1Well those old guys in Sony dont really listen to outside opinion..
- getrecognized, on 02/12/2009, -0/+0Those are too funny...
http://www.moneyiseverywhere.com/ - TenebrousX, on 10/12/2007, -2/+2argh, delete
- WizardOfWords, on 10/12/2007, -0/+0Here's one more for Wal-Mart. Two Christmases ago, they had some crazy early morning sale where they were selling a limited number of DVD players for 25 bucks a piece. So at the break of dawn, they open up the glass doors, and a hoard of people stampede their way toward the electronics section in their effort to get a taste of sweet DVD action.
When the melee was over, a woman lay unconscious, face-down on the floor, still clutching her DVD player. Paramedics pried it from her hands and rushed her to the hospital. Once Wal-Mart found out she'd live, they really showed their holiday spirit, and get this: they offered to still sell her the DVD player for the sale price when she got out of the hospital. Can you imagine that? The woman almost dies and they can't give her a $25 DVD player? That totally cracked me up. They actually thought that was a generous offer. Glad to see these guys have straigtened their act up since then :-) - sonic11, on 12/17/2007, -0/+01 point per page? they actually expect me to click 101 times and view 600 ads? wtf
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http://ukzcys.etowns.net - EthylAdded, on 10/12/2007, -3/+1#1 is wrong. Walmart's declining revenue is due to the dawning realization of middle and lower-class America that there might be such a thing as too much debt.
- monarch00, on 10/12/2007, -2/+0Those students and their parents probably could have had an interesting lawsuit on their hands... Is there any legal precedent about schools giving out demographic information without permission?
- ziggystardust, on 10/12/2007, -7/+2http://www.digg.com/business_finance/101_dumbest_moments_in_business_7
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