Sunday, October 5, 2014

Corporations and incompetence - We are having our money stolen by Big Business. (Just pay the bill and don't ask questions.)

http://www.alternet.org/culture/pillars-american-society-are-showing-how-incompetent-they-are-and-they-dont-care?akid=12329.294211.IdzApL&rd=1&src=newsletter1021928&t=3

most Americans are on the receiving end of a corporate culture that overpromises, requires payment first, typically doesn’t care about customer service—which is their real-world impact—and mostly is driven by organizational self-interest.
That seems to be the bottom-line with the JPMorgan Chase hack, where you can be sure that the bank’s executive suite knew that it was lying several weeks ago when it said that 1 million bank accounts were hacked. On Friday, the New York Times reported the real number was 76 million. That’s almost one quarter of the country's population. On Saturday, the Times reported that other major financial firms were hit as well. Yet the industry's publicity strategy seems to be, ‘Oh, whatever…’   
The NFL’s handling of the Ray Rice video follows the same playbook. Where is the evidence that the NFL puts anything before its own profits and marketing? The video is the least of it. This is a sport where a sizeable slice of retired players are aging with brain injuries, which owners have downplayed for years while fighting legal settlements. Its top priority is marketing football’s tough guy, real-men-work-through-pain image and banking billions in profits.  

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