The Prisoner

[tracker7]

More fallout from the vulture lawyer ads:  A group of concerned citizens is taking out an ad in Sunday's paper (providing us with more revenue than the offending ads did) calling for a boycott of us.  Maybe we're all a terribly arrogant bunch, but nobody thinks such a boycott, if it comes together, will do any good.

Message for you, folks - when you have never patronized a business, calling to tell them that you'll never do business there again if they continue to advertise in a certain publication won't impress anybody.

Having said that, though ... Gad, what a cockup this was.  Our advertising VP sounded like a chimpanzee when he tried to defend the decision to run the ads.  The podcast (all three hours of it) of a local radio call-in show is at http://www.wlap.com/cc-common/podcast.html. ; I think the nonsense is in hour 2.

Anyway, moving on.

I discussed this whole mess with my immediate supervisor today, and it was cathartic for both of us.  She complimented me, or at least commented positively, on my ability to go from model employee to full-on jackass and back when necessary, and without any elapsed time between modes.

Some asshattery for your further listening pleasure - Pat Buchanan his own darn self is going to be on Coast to Coast AM tonight.  With any luck, he'll go into a good rant and we'll hear once again how much better his speeches sound in the original German.

Comments

[tracker7.livejournal.com]

Right you are!

I think the ad is meant to be a call to advertisers to pull their ads from us, or else this Upright Citizens' Brigade will no longer patronize them.

Hope they don't need clothes/housewares (Dillard's, Macy's, Logan's), appliances (Best Buy, Pieratt's, Lowe's, Home Depot), a new car ('bout anybody in town), or a zillion other goods and services anytime soon. When last a dealership pulled its ads in a fit of indignation, sales dropped something like 40%.

I do wish the responsible parties would just man up, say "We blew it, and big," and apologize. Enough with the weaseling.

[elalyr.livejournal.com]

Yeah, overall it seems like a kneejerk reaction that was not entirely thought through. I agree with the emotion behind it, but the methodology needs work. Now me, I might organize something like, say, a letter-writing campaign to whoever's in charge now, and ask for something concrete, like a printed apology from said VP. Or, while I'm not sure how this works, I think that whatever body supervises lawyers has some sort of process by which they issue a letter of censure or something...research that, and deluge that body with letters requesting they backhand the nasty lawyers. Then you have a reachable goal, at least.