In what world would a ‘genius’ think that this was appropriate? I mean, I’ve heard of poor decision making, but this is pretty colossal.
Reminds me of an advert camapign AMD released, showing groups of ‘real’ people who use AMD chips in their PCs. The cover shot had a ‘geek’ in the back of the room reading a magazine with a naked woman on the cover. And AMD’s advertising group chose that picture to launch their Antlon campaign - on banners on campus, in the newspaper, on flyers, and passed out at conventions. Over a week later, someone pointed out the obvious; and AMD went into a mad ‘recover and destroy’ mode; going to employee cubes and recovering the advetising material.
Amazing lack of thought.
In customer service, things like this are really where you break new ground and learn something.
Something here went terribly, terribly wrong.
Rather than to just go into full burn and denial mode, the magazine and the advert agency really need to sit down with whoever thought this was a good idea for a photo shoot.
Really.
Kinda like getting into Hannibal Lecter’s mind.
Remember the movie, “Crazy People” with Dudley Moore and Darryl Hannah?
Those Sony and Jag-u-ar advertisements were great.
“Yes. I want a h-——b.”