Human Decency

Scott Hardie | December 27, 2012
An amusing story today, if you enjoy schadenfreude for rich kids in Silicon Valley: There's quite a bit of venom being spat at Randi Zuckerberg, former marketing director of Facebook and sister of Mark Zuckerberg, over her accusing a friend of lacking human decency for sharing a private photo with the world, as if that's not the sort of thing that Facebook does all the time, and in fact has made her rich. Ha.

This got me thinking about how satisfying it could be to see other bigwigs at widely-loathed companies become victims of their own crimes against "human decency":

- The CEO of Best Buy should get hard-sold on a redundant warranty, be told how much he needs some heavily-marked-up HDMI cables, and stand in line for thirty minutes.

- AT&T's spokesperson should have their calls dropped, be slapped with enormous roaming charges, and have their data throttled in the middle of a critical work project.

- The founder of Bank of America should be forcibly enrolled in a "credit protection" program with a monthly fee, then be foreclosed upon and thrown out on the street even though he has paid off his mortgage.

- Walmart's CEO should be forced to shop at Walmart.

Are there any corporate VIPs that you'd like to see treated with a poetically just lack of human decency?

Erik Bates | January 2, 2013
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Scott Hardie | January 3, 2013
Mine doubtless benefitted from my ongoing reading of Consumerist, which frequently lambasts those particular companies for their customer-service shortcomings.

Erik Bates | January 3, 2013
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Scott Hardie | January 3, 2013
Good blog, funny and easy to browse, though sometimes too cynical.