Aaand political_macro wins the day

Apr 13, 2009 19:06

political_macro has the single best response yet to Amazon.fail.

TOTALLY NOT SAFE FOR WORK. Oh, god, tears of hysterical laughter are coursing down my cheeks.

Otherwise, the_croupier has the single best summation and response to Amazon's cry of "it was all an ACCIDENT, you see!" (Flocked post, but we share a few people on the flist, so some of you may get to see it ( Read more... )

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outlawpoet April 14 2009, 03:04:16 UTC
ha ha ha. Oh, public relations. Every time this happens, I laugh at the rookie mistakes that seem to happen over and over.

I mean, it's inevitable in an organization as large as Amazon with lots and lots of people in touch with the public that some boneheaded stuff will happen. But you need at least one savvy dude sitting at a desk with some Google Alerts set on your company being discussed in a negative light on a variety of topics so that situations like this don't fester for a week, and you have your shit together in time to talk to NPR and Cable News shows when they come knocking.

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