Posted on 05/21/2005 1:04:44 AM PDT by Brian Allen
Notice that no one is out rioting and killing and setting things on fire because of this.
they need to fire this ceo because I don't know how long my stockpile of code red mtn dew will last....
It's hard to burn Pepsi.
I work for Frito Lay. a division of Pepsico. Pepsico has sent care packages to deployed troops, given me products to send to my sons while they were deployed, and pays all employees that are activated guard the difference between their military pay and what they earn at Pepsico. We have also received financial help from them when holding Support the Troops rallies. Pepsi has also donated Support the Troops banners that were used at the Bangor Maine airport for returning troops and at a counter rally against A.N.S.W.E.R held in D.C. by Free Republic.
This was one employee of the company. I am appalled by her comments but they do not reflect the view of the company. They are her personal opinions.
Like... Steve Ballmer is one employee of Microsoft???
If you are really at a Pepsico company, let your bosses know that America is *EMBARRASSED* that such an American icon as Pepsi should have one of its "luminaries" make such a juvenile gibe.
In fact, tell them she should bite the wax tadpole.
Why? It won't bring her ancestors back from the dead!
If Coca-Cola is on the ball - they'll be coming out with ads all over the place with beaucoup flags draped in the background. I always like Coca-Cola anyway - and Pepsico deserves to get stomped for this.
Coca Cola's executive stratum is probably too PC to do that, which is a pity. It would boost Coca Cola's marketshare, especially in the (ahem) red zones.
Don't buy any of the mentioned products. Drink Beer, eat cheese and apples, and of course donuts for breakfast. Amen.
Did she get her job through affirmative action?
That's my guess. She mouths this juvenile trash to the graduates of a leading business school? I might expect a remark like that at a graduation... of the Playboy Academy.
(Denny Crane: "Sometimes you can only look for answers from God and failing that... and Fox News".)
Sorry but your opinion is erroneous and won't wash.
At your level you are entitled to your own [PC] opinion but at the lead cow's level her comments do reflect the view of the company -- and the company is stuck with it -- but not with her.
I am betting she'll be on the job market really soon.
Hopefully in superior India where progress is such that there are now only one billion people, to whom the Brahmanas have long been giving the finger -- and worse -- subsisting in middle-ages-level filth and squalor and poverty and where her finger will likely come in veddy handy.
Insofar as all the rest of your Pepsico plug is concerned, the phrase that covers the illusionary largesse of which you speak is: "Advertising Budget."
Nooyi's speech was carefully scripted to give the exact message everyone heard (read). The vulgar references were intentional.
What is a successful, well-educated, respected executive of a major US corporation doing using that kind of language in ANY speech she might give?
And she compounded her vulgar effrontery by using that language to criticize the US.
Her apology (the second one) is just an excellent statement. It precisely covers the hot spots, and the diction, etc., shows just how intelligent and capable this lady is.
Two things belie the sincerity of the apology, however, and make me believe that she may still be playing everyone for a fool.
The first is the very excellence of the writing of the apology. Does this not suggest that every word of her speech was intentional and meant to mean what everyone thought it meant?
Second, in her apology she called her mistakes "inadvertent". WHAT? There was nothing in that speech that was inadvertent. I understand that it's a way to save face and CYA, but it makes her apology technically meaningless. Again, I did like the apology, but.....
Well, I'm not a Pepsi fan, especially, but I like Tostitos and KFC, which I read here yesterday is owned by Pepsi.
But Pepsi and its products are on my boycott list, even though a three-piece meal (original) might slip past the firewall now and then.
Indra is, I think, truly an asset to Pepsi (until now). Pepsi won't want to fire her, but I doubt she'll be out making speeches for awhile.
I was telling my husband about this story. He has boycotted Pepsi since they had Geraldine Ferraro in an ad. He pointed out that they ALSO hired Michael Jackson as a spokesperson some years ago. His motto is "always drink Coke, at least they are American."
<< The damage is to Pepsi's brand name and the damaged was compounded by a standard non apology apology. >>
Yep. I commented on that on an earlier thread [ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1406931/posts?page=121#121 ] related to this sanctimonious cow's contempt.
The old "I am sorry if your taking my contempt out of context caused you to have caused yourself confusion" routine might work with the Dalits [With which caste she clearly associates those of us who confused ourselves by taking her remarks out of context] -- but not with Americans.
I'd like to see such as her sent back whence she came where she can join the hundreds of millions of her epidemically-corrupt countrymen who've had centuries of practice giving the finger -- and much worse -- to those of whom they are contemptuous. [Most recently to 'Untouchable' tsunami victims who've been deprived of foreign-donated aid monies and other assistance.
Well said.
She absolutely knew precisely what she was saying and her "apology" but reinforced her contempt for US all. A clear case of the confusing of a relatively high verbal IQ -- and unchecked Narcissism -- for "intelligence."
I beg to differ on her future, though and reckon that old cow is headed for the culling paddock!
I'll have an RC, thanks.
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