03.01.12
The Suck Up List
The list of American companies currying the most suck-ups and apple-polishers most admired, according to Fortune.
It’s here.
Apparently one can make the top ranks on the backs of not doing anything but serving beverages and food at a minimum wage, as evidenced by Starbucks at 8 and McDonald’s at 11.
When a trademark bistro that serves nothing but coffee and some teas is in the top ten, what does it say about the giant multi-national American firms in the list? And what does it say of the list?
Lots? Well, no. Actually, damned by faint praise fits the bill.
General Electric, now pushing a daily brace of prime-time commercials in an attempt to erase its image as a rent-seeking tax dodger, is admired at #15.
Apple is number one.
The poll relied on “businesspeople,” not random yobs, according to CNN/Fortune.
Good to know.
Rewarding the obvious: Most likely to be sucked-up to.
Joao said,
March 2, 2012 at 3:27 pm
I looks like Apple is boasting 514000 jobs in the US.
Check http://www.apple.com/about/job-creation
Including a lot of fake harmonica coders.
Cheers and keep rocking DD
J.
George Smith said,
March 2, 2012 at 10:31 pm
That’s a little too ludicrous a page, even for Apple. They’re obviously pretty defensive about it or they’d be showing us the cities and the employees THIS year, not over some nebulous span. They’d say anything, like any other big multi-national, to curb the bad publicity.
My hunch is the Cult of Apple nerds don’t care. They’ll believe anything their heroes tell them. In the meantime they’ll still be the fancy artisan goods designer/slave labor employer for the global plutocracy and its shoe-shiners.