With "Friends" like these...
re: donating to hurricane relief
I had a corporate gig yesterday, running audiovisual for a CEO of a major department store. At the end of his video, to a backing track of James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend", there was a graphic stating that the company had donated $15,000 to Hurricane Katrina Relief, as well as treating an evacuee to a highly publicized shopping spree.
This is a half billion dollar company, and I roughly estimate they donated the proceeds of about 12 minutes of business.
We donated the proceeds from a day's gig. Either we should have sent in about 4 bucks, or that big company should have sent the Red Cross about a million dollars, or something's really out of whack.
"You've Got a Friend" indeed. I wanted to puke, not as much for their miserliness, as for them patting themselves on the back for it.
I had a corporate gig yesterday, running audiovisual for a CEO of a major department store. At the end of his video, to a backing track of James Taylor's "You've Got a Friend", there was a graphic stating that the company had donated $15,000 to Hurricane Katrina Relief, as well as treating an evacuee to a highly publicized shopping spree.
This is a half billion dollar company, and I roughly estimate they donated the proceeds of about 12 minutes of business.
We donated the proceeds from a day's gig. Either we should have sent in about 4 bucks, or that big company should have sent the Red Cross about a million dollars, or something's really out of whack.
"You've Got a Friend" indeed. I wanted to puke, not as much for their miserliness, as for them patting themselves on the back for it.
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