I live in Atlanta. What is this Pepsi stuff you keep talking about?
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Posted on 05/20/2005 1:21:27 AM PDT by An American Patriot
The remarks by Indra Nooyi, an India-born woman who also serves as PepsiCo's chief financial officer, came during a speech Sunday to graduates at Columbia Business School. Nooyi then went on to say the five major continents in the world can each be represented by a finger on the hand. She said Africa was the pinkie; She said our thumb is Asia; Europe was compared to the index finger; South America, including Latin America, was likened to the ring finger; She said her analogy "leaves the long, middle finger for North America, and in particular, the United States.
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Looks like this woman will soon be enjoying retirement.
To Indra.
FU2! Go back to India if you don't like it here.
I live in Atlanta. What is this Pepsi stuff you keep talking about?
Just damn.
If you want on the list, FReepmail me. This IS a high-volume PING list...
Pepsi needs to fizzle that America Haters' employment contract, and now!
Time for Indra Nooyi to be given a Noogie.
Nyuk, Nyuk, Nyuk
I know..those guys made the modern world out of materials people'd been letting sit around for generations...
I think she was simply using her hand as an impomptu bar graph.
Her apology sounds reasoned and sincere.
I still dont drink Pepsi tho
Having actually read the article now...I see that Im full of it L0L
Thank You MSM! /sarcasm
And a Moon Pie.
It's a southern thing.
If the negativity was unintentional, she is a certified fool.
Over the years I’ve witnessed and advised others how a thoughtless gesture or comment can hurt good, caring people.
It would be very difficult to argue that her comments were thoughtless. As foolish as they were, they were obviously calculated.
The kind of judgement she exhibited don't have any business leading a large company like Pepsi.
The middle finger is one of the two necessary for a successful eye poke.
BUMP---
and save
How many American women go to India and become CFO of multi-gazzillon dollar companies?
Is anyone else here questioning how she got her job?
– Indra Nooyi
As soon as you resign.
Or at least fired or given a golden parachute payment to leave the company.
Because PepsiCo--like the Coca-Cola Company--is a highly image-conscious company, they know that any bad PR could cause financial distress for the company in no time flat (does anyone remember the New Coke fiasco?). Indra Nooyi's comments could end up causing Americans to shun PepsiCo products, which could seriously cut into their revenues and will cause their stock value to fall. The PepsiCo people may want to read Hugh Hewitt's latest book BLOG: Understanding the Information Reformation That's Changing Your World, which shows how the New Media--especially weblogs--can cause change at lightning-fast speeds.
She may THINK anything she wants, but as an officer of the company she has an obligation to uphold certain guidelines.
Since she can't, and seems to want to act-out on these thoughts, she is a danger to the viability of the company and should be canned.
Big Jim, a fishing partner would always bring plenty moon pies and RC Cola. He knew I couldn't resit them and while I was eating a moon pie and washing it down with an RC, he would usually catch one or two fish and beat me at the end of the day.
He is always looking for and edge...
As Col. 'Bat' Guano said to Group Captain (G/C) Lionel Mandrake, "You're gonna have to answer to the Coca Cola Company."
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