Yesterday, in a special commentary (read: jeerleading segment) called "Chutzpah", Ms. Brown dogged Wells Fargo for canceling a "swanky Las Vegas trip that it had planned for its employees last weekend at two high-end casino resorts". It was only canceled after the trip was reported in the AP--"economic crisis be damned", Campbell chimes.
Yes, because the last thing we want are banks spending money at places that employ people in an economically depressed region like Las Vegas.
Moving along, she goes on to mock them for taking out an estimated $200,000 worth of ad space in the NYT and the W. Post...which Wells Fargo did to explain to the country that it had to cancel its employee recognition program because the populist-shilling media are full of mewling dunces, and because Paulson essentially forced them to take the bail-out money against their wishes.
This is where it should be mentioned that this trip was to recognize outstanding workers--tellers, cashiers, and, yes, some brokers, too. Here's Campbell's sarcasm-laden, but bull-free recommendation for Wells Fargo.
"You wanna thank your workers? Try email; put the letter on your website instead, it won't cost you a dime."
From the bottom of my proletariat heart: Campbell Brown, that was a comment from a pampered, soulless, nitwit. You work at CNN. You have people dress you everyday, and put your makeup on for you. How about you don't comment when a company actually tries to do something nice for its non-commissioned employess. You wouldn't know anything about that. We workers are smart enough--and petty enough--to know that if it costs the company more, they mean it.
And (it must be said) it's called bullshit, sweetheart. Perhaps this confusion on who the bad guys are is rooted in this underlying confusion. Bullshit is a smelly, foul, useless excretion; clearly we can do away--cut--that. The bull is beneficial; it's the reason we take up the task of cutting the bullshit. Here's a cheatsheet:
Bull = Good. Bullshit = Bad.
Print that up, and hang it on your mirror. You can stare it while the beautician masks your age so they don't can you for a 25-year old FoxNews blonde.
Motley Fools has much better coverage, but still misses those poor workers.
Last (to bring these guns to bear on the CEO of Wells Fargo for a minute), the ad used the word 'boondoggle', and therefore gave occassion for that relentless scourge of a term to be weaponized against me yet once more. You, too, have earned my ire.
