It is unfortunate and sad to see that once storied brands also fumble. And fumble big. This is not much different than the sops that believe in the notion of role models only to see that these very models among citizen were infidel to their spouse all along or that they had a certain affinity to banned substances or were a pedophile.
Most recently America saw two such instances of high visibility but poor execution (I guess we get one juicy bomb a month now a days it seems) with the CEO of Yahoo admitting to something he was not but purported to be. He had an entire degree missing. Oops. Now I remember having to send notarized versions of my qualification for every job I got hired into here in the US but I suppose if you are a citizen and a highly paid exec at that it is assumed that your qualifications are on the up and up. Why would one pretend to be someone they are not? He had to leave the building after four months.
Another foot in the mouth involved a large Financial Institution perhaps not known worldwide but a large player in the American economy by the name of J.P Morgan Chase. The first initials are for John Pierpont who was a famed financier and industrialist born 200 years ago. He created the empire that in the late 1990s merged with Chase bank and created the JPM CHase company. This very same Chase was also a recipient of the famous TARP or bailout fund created by the US government to avoid worldwide economic chaos.
The very same Chase just recently announced a bad bet that cost their bottom line $2 Billion loss. In the days of multi billion hand outs and such this seems like pittance but if the media is to be believed a few heads rolled for this egregious action.
Egregious actions seem to be coming out of the woodwork these days - many from the highest echelons of business, art, sport et al and so the human mind continues to deceive for personal gain. But then there is justice in some small part meted out - to what extent it impacts people who may be at their job out of boredom remains a mystery but it does provide a ray of hope to the common man hoping to strive for the corner office through good old fashioned hard work.
This autumn the weather gods cooperated as we took a family trip in the northeast to see six states that qualify or makeup what is known colloquially in America as New England. Mass, Maine, Vermont, New Hampshire, Connecticut and Rhode Island (tiniest state in the union). The outing helped tally up the states we either lived in, visited or have worked in to 47. Guess which three have eluded this intrepid traveling family. Any rate the drive was all in about 1,800 miles and included some memorable geographic wonders or points of interest. Easternmost part of state of Massachusetts being one. Furthest drivable road east in Mass being another. Visit to all Ivy League schools (term harkens to a collegiate athletics conference and generally regarded as elite academic institutes of some repute worldwide) is another random bucket list item of which this trip afforded the chance to knock two more of the list. Dartmouth in Hanover, NH and Brown (and its sister institute the RISD - school f
When there is a lot of money sloshing around as in a bank, there is bound to be some guy whose head turns..but amnesia about one's degrees is something else...
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