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Work situation - I can't believe no-one realised - updated

shooting star, 3 June, 2008 at 20:56

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I was asked to come up with some ideas to help promote our company values across our subsidaries in Europe and the deadline was very tight. (Just co clarify this is not something I would normally do as part of my job). I came up with the idea of having 1 poster for each value and an image to...

I was asked to come up with some ideas to help promote our company values across our subsidaries in Europe and the deadline was very tight. (Just co clarify this is not something I would normally do as part of my job).

I came up with the idea of having 1 poster for each value and an image to represent that value. (OK not rocket science, but like I said tight deadlines). I googled some images and found very neutral images (e.g. hands holding a sprouting plant, 2 rock climbers helping each other up a mountain, a piggy bank etc) and sent them onto the person leading the values promotion.

A couple of other people put the posters together, and yesterday the final version was put on my desk and I was asked to comment back asap.

On the leadership poster they had replaced the rock climbing image with a montage of great leaders. The wording was 'Who do you know who shows leadership at <company name>?" The first thing I noticed was that Stalin and Osama bin Laden were in this montage!!! So I said they definitely had to be removed and was told I was making extra work (!) as it was all one image. There were also a couple of other people in there that I didn't recognise and I asked who they were and was told one was an explorer.

Well the Stalin and Osama have been removed and the poster campaign has been sent out across our European branches. I took the poster home and my H told me that the 'explorer' is acutally the Unabomber who killed 3 people and injured 23 others in the 70s. He also noticed that General Pinochet is just showing behind Martin Luther King.

There's also someone else who looks a bit suspect - I am scared to find out who it might be.

Can't believe we have sent this out - it is so offensive. I have my head in my hands at the moment.

OK - well the posters are up around our office (the one I was talking about was the second in the series), but surprisingly no fallout yet.

Before it went up I told my manager where it had come from and she sent a strongly worded email to the manager in charge explaining why it shouldn't go up. I also raised my views too about the problems with it. However I was told 'it has gone out on email now so we can't change it'.

However an email was sent out from our Head Office in the US thanking those who "embodied our values by creating this innovative series of posters" and named and thanked 1) the manager who sent them out but didn't do any of the work, 2) the manager who asked me to do the work and wouldn't recall them and 3) the person who chose the image but not me (who thought of the idea, who found the other images, who corrected the grammar and spelling and who stopped it going out with fecking Starlin and Osama on it (ok so I missed the others).

I don't know whether to be pissed off that I haven't been publicly recognised (again! - this has happened before when I have helped this team with a project) or to be relieved that my name isn't associated with it.

Sigh.

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  • Evil Yoda
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  • Luthien
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    Two leaders for the price of one: https://www.bertisevil.tv

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  • S
    Beginner June 2008
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    My H has just noticed that there are very faint arrows on the picture dividing it into 4 quadrants. Not sure what they represent but it means they are grouping the following people together...

    Right worked it out - the artist has grouped them the following way.

    Darth Vader, Osama Bin Laden, Stalin and the Pope - Totalitarian

    Pinochet, Bush, Regan - Republican

    Adam Sandler, Marting Luther King and the Unabomber - Libertarian

    Hilary Clinton, John Kerry, Bono and Ghandi, - Democrat / Socialist

    wow - I think I a politics basic explaination might not go amiss!

    I really don't understand

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  • HeidiHole
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    ??

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  • Zebra
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    Zebra ·
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    Who is the woman on the bottom right?

    And has anyone at your company heard of this wee thing called copyright?

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    Moglie ·
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    The picture is actually some blokes answer to a quiz

    http://www.okcupid.com/politics

    He is placed next to Adam Sandler for his beliefs

    (Sorry no used to new hitched and not sure if linked properly etc)

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    Moglie ·
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    This is what the picture means

    Sorry shootingstar posted this after you'd edited your groups

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    It looks like the picture is putting these people in an increasing scale of something - the arrows must have had labels explaining what they mean.

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  • Mr JK
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    Yes, but they're not leaders as such - merely representatives of certain tendencies. I mean, Adam Sandler?

    Someone has grasped the wrong end of the stick with a vengeance.

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    Zebra ·
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    The poster is taken from here https://www.okcupid.com/politics

    and it's copyrighted. Oops!

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  • S
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    Yes is all very wrong and embarrassing in so many ways.

    I will update everyone on the fallout.

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    I'm sorry but I can't believe your marketing department thought it was better to put out a poorly researched, completely wrong for the job picture on time rather than delay a little bit and actually produce a decent poster. Beggars belief.

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  • spacecadet_99
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    Oh and who else took the test? Apparently I am a social liberal.

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  • Mr JK
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    Nothing to do with marketing departments beggars my belief.

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    This is terribly funny. Hitched gold.

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    Beginner June 2008
    shooting star ·
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    I just did the test

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    I've noticed that no matter what everyone seems to "exhibit a very well-developed sense of Right and Wrong and believe in economic fairness"

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    Ahh brilliant, I needed a giggle tonight ?.

    Am astounded that the poster got out like that, would love to know what feedback you get back ?

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    That is hilarious!

    I can't believe that they used a random poster of leader suggested by someone else rather than picking people that they thought were significant.

    As a marketing person, I can assure you that I would have been fired if I had done that at any of my jobs.

    You may want to refer people in your company to collections/demotivators

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    Oh dear me. So so funny though.

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    Its worked out I am a democrat - who would I be voting for in the USA?

    Obama,McCain or someone else?

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    So so funny.

    Looks like I'm Adam Sandler though according to that test!

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    Superb post!!!

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    Hmmm, I think that's ok ?

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    I am actually crying with laughter. not least as I think mrH is havign an interview with your company tomorrow ?

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    Just. Amazing.

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    Don't know if I am more shocked that they allowed that poster to appear with those faces in it, or that they didn't check on copyright. ?

    Anyway -

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    Pretty accurate I s'pose.

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