[armymarinedad]

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.

[The Red Zone]

This was one employee of the company.

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.

[The Red Zone]

In fact, tell them she should bite the wax tadpole.

[Brian Allen]

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."

[chgomac]

Here's my take--an executive of a major US Corporation takes the opportunity while speaking to the grads to point out "perceived" negatives about the United States....I don't read where she mentioned anything good except her own rise in the company. It's a free country. She can say what she likes. But pepsi has to understand that they are tied to her speach.

For the first time yesterday, I noticed that pepsi was the drink sold at the fountain at the Base Exchange....and I had negative feelings about that!

[jocon307]

"Pepsico...pays all employees that are activated guard the difference between their military pay and what they earn at Pepsico."

That's very good. You are good to stick up for your employer. And you're not even pepsionice!

[outinyellowdogcountry]

Good to know. Is Pepsico owned by the Mormon Church or something? Just curious because I had heard that and I wondered. I like Frito Lay verrrry much! Especially the baked Cheetos but can't get them locally.

[madison10]

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.

Maybe they should find her replacement. Why bring a good company down because one of their employees is a liberal fool who cannot keep her opinions to herself.

[Goodgirlinred]

I just read her speech in that link. She was not bashing the United States. She was using all the five fingers to represent each of the five continents. The United States, as the most powerful, was represented by the longest digit, the middle finger. That did not mean any disrespect. Read her speech again, this time without looking for something bad. This was something that was misinterpreted by a college student who put it online and it went on to radio talk shows. Things grow bigger and bigger with the telling. From the little bit I read in the earlier thread, I thought she was bashing America, too. I don't, now that I have read her speech.