Whilst waiting for a gruelling interview about a merger between two giant supermarkets here in the UK which is attracting the unwanted attention of the Monopolies and Mergers commission, the boss of one of them sang this little ditty you can hear below.
Now I am not what you could call media savvy, but if I was the boss of Sainsbury's and sitting at a desk with a camera and microphone in front of me, I hope I would have the wit to sing something a little less contentious than this. We are, after all, in the digital age and it costs no more to have cameras recording for 24 hours than it does for the 15 minutes it did with celluloid. The man is a fool, like the rest of Britain these days.
I mean - for Christ's sake - he heads the bloody company. The boss of the TSB bank has graciously declined £2 million of his bonus this year for screwing up many people's financial lives by installing a new online system which has locked people out of their accounts for two weeks. I wonder what the rest of the bonus amounts to.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-43959687
And he advertises Cafe bloody Nero. I wonder if he got paid for that.
ReplyDeleteYou picked the wrong career, that's all.
ReplyDeleteSo I have wasted my life, then.
DeleteIf there had been a takeover for Sainsbury's, then I could understand his joy at having several millions in his pocket. But they are having to pay £13 Billion; so where's the 'I'm in the money' coming from?
ReplyDeleteUnfortunate choice....although I have little sympathy for anyone running the large organisations or even the country these days...there is no such thing as an altruistic MP..people go into politics for their own shady reasons....
ReplyDeleteI am sure that most people go into politics for the right (or left) reason, but the higher you get, the more impossible it must be to hang onto your principles.
DeleteOne could of course say that he is doing no more than displaying a bit of good ol' British humour and not bowing
ReplyDeleteto the hypocritical "we don't really do this, make money" brigade.
Whatever he was doing it was sub-conscious to a Freudian degree.
DeleteWe need more backbone in this country to take this sort of thing in good spirits and get rid of the left wing cry babyvmentality that can't,or won't, take a joke.
DeleteIs the accusation of endemic racism a joke? Should they be laughing?
DeleteP.S. The whole reason I put this recording up is because I found it very funny. It seems to be you lacking the sense of humour.
DeleteI was talking about the I'm in the money ditty. I didn't listen to the recording.
DeleteThat's the second thing you have commented about without listening to the recording.
DeleteTSB boss Didn't look particulary gracious when I watched the grilling
ReplyDeleteI wasn't interested in the grilling.
DeleteOff topic: he has a decent singing voice, I'll give him that.
ReplyDeleteA second career?
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