Corporate communications are da bomb
Look at these two faxes, readers. The one on the right was what showed up at Bank of America branches across the northeast US. Not suprisingly, the picture of a disembodied arm lighting the fuse of a bomb got some folks a little nervous:
In a scene reminiscent of the Cartoon Network bomb scare that paralyzed the Boston area in January, police shut down a strip mall yesterday in this small western suburb after employees at a Bank of America branch mistook a botched fax for a bomb threat.
Frustrated shop owners said the branch overreacted to the strange fax, which turned out to be an in-house marketing document sent by the bank’s corporate office.
“The women at the bank should have handled it a little better,” said Nick Markos, owner of Townhouse Pizza and Roast Beef, who estimated that he had lost $1,000 to $1,200 because of the lunch-hour evacuation. “She blew it all out of proportion, and all of us business owners had to pay for it.”
[...] Bank security personnel later determined that a fax machine at the corporate office left off the text alerting employees to Small Business Commitment Week in June, including the words, “The Countdown Begins,” above the bomb.
“It was not a communication that was ever meant to be distributed to customers or anyone externally, and the fax machine malfunctioned, so when it came out of the fax machine, it looked suspicious,” Bank of America spokesman Ernesto Anguilla said.
(via Obscure Store and Reading Room)
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June 1st, 2007 @ 01:17
It’s just one thing after another.
The ‘tremendously irresponisible’ Lite-Brite scare. Yes, Lite-fucking-Brites waving the middle finger.
All the people who think evolution is a myth and proudly point out that—and they are right about this at least—they are in the majority.
The woman Fux News Radio gave air time who thinks Harry Potter should be banned from the public school library.
Then it was “Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?” with questions like “How many perfect squares between 10 and 20?”
Now this. Will somebody please pound my head against a wall until he sees brains?
It’s a bit personal. Something similar to this incident actually happened to me—I don’t really care to go into much detail and I’m sure you’ll all understand. A man gets tired of watching dimwits run everything and living in fear after awhile, you know?
I really guess the best thing for me to do now is keep working on my little ’se_tutor’ Python app and hope my life isn’t completely ruined before I can put it into use…
BTW—Python metaclasses KICK ASS