Are you that perfect that you have never mis-spoke?
I'm sure that it sounded funny on paper (and it really does), but in the delivery, it sucks.
She very quickly apologized for the error. Compare that to Newsweak (SP intentional), or, for Gods sake, JANE FONDA!!!
Hey, there is no comparison. Newsweek and Jane Fonda are a hundred times worse. But you don't see me rushing out to the news-stand to buy Newsweek and I would not be caught dead at Jane Fonda's new movie. Those kind of go without saying. I haven't patronized either for the last ten years.
But Pepsico is a different matter. They are a company in a highly competetive marketplace, and they spend a lot of money to generate good feelings about their company and their products. Then an officer of the company uses the authority lent by this hard fought success of the company to thumb her nose at this country. Would anybody care what this woman said if she were not the CFO of Pepsico? If that is their attitude, then I say that negates all that hard work, and we'll set the goodwill meter back to zero and work our way up from there.
As a customer, I now associate Pepsico products with these vile statements. This association makes it less likely that I will enjoy Pepsico products or have warm fuzzy feelings about them. Given that I will not enjoy them, I am much less inclined to buy them.
The list of brands was just my helpful nature, so that other FReepers know what products they may be annoyed at, if they are so annoyed.
Sort-of. She apologized, not for she said, but for offending people.
What she said came from the heart! Her apology came from the PR dept.
It wasn't funny, spoken or written. You would think that you wouldn't have to tell that to a senior executive of a major corporation. What chafes is that Pepsi and Ms. Nooyi try to tell us that we misunderstood her-- we don't misunderstand her. The problem is, we understand all too well.
We are at war right now and it rankles to have Newsweek and Pepsi executives working for the other side.
I agree with you, she was making an analogy that probably sounded better on paper, then when spoken.
And if it was, then the Peter Principle pertains her.
No way should a CFO utter such nonsense.
Off with her "head".