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The skit that "missed the mark" . . .
Quit sucking up to corporate America, yahoo sports writer. The Hornets farked up a simple PR event in every way it was possible TO fark up. They baited and switched a PS5 with a t-shirt and thought no one would find out about it.
And they have so damn much money that giving him the PS5 would have been like you or me flicking a penny to the kid.
People suck sometimes, I swear.
This means there was at least one meeting where this plan was discussed and approved by multiple staffers who have jobs and salaries and manage to find their way to work and back home at night.
Likely it cost more to have said meeting than the ps5 itself
I can almost guarantee that one of them wanted the PS5 for themselves, and insisted on swapping it out so they could take the console.
Jfc... How much of a psychopathic piece of shit do you have to be, to hurt a kid's feelings like that?! I fucking hate people.
I swear The Boys gets more and more blatant with how evil Corporate America is, but cmon, this episode is just completely ridiculous. Not even Homelander would be that ev....
Wait this happened in a REAL Sportsball game? This is not a bit? sugh
I'm not mad, I'm just disappointed
One of the comments about why
How would this commenter know that?
I mean surely it could be a lie but they just took away a PS5 from a kid...
By having met her.
I might suggest that the kid got a nicer present in the form of a reason to file suit against the team for the embarrassment and emotional distress. Using the kid for a BS publicity stunt is not acceptable.
LOL. Cheap bastards. I mean, PS5 is an expensive gift, but not for such an occasion, no?
The team has revenue in the millions. They'd never have noticed the money. This should be in the dictionary under Penny Wise, Pound Foolish.
Compared to the marketing expenses of even very small companies, a PS5 is so ridiculously cheap that these costs are not even worth mentioning.
If a PS5 is too expensive to give away, then don't pretend to give one away.
I feel like I shouldn't have to say this.
I feel like this is so boneheaded that it has to be the case where the staff member in charge of this giveaway just wanted to keep the PS5 themselves and thought the kids wouldn't complain about the ol' switcheroo! This just even sounds like something Michael Scott would have done in The Office.
No, Michael Scott is a moron, not a jackass. He wouldn't pull this shit. He's tone deaf, he constantly thinks he's doing the right thing without realizing why what he's doing has the opposite of the intended effect even when it's obvious to everyone else. Giving a kid something he wants and then taking it away when no one's look is a move of calculated evil.
He'd imply heavily a PS5 then give the kid a Jersey, at no point would he actually have the thing in the kid's hand and then take it back.
Maybe that's just me, but I don't see Michael Scott as a character that would knowingly choose to do something immoral. He'd do a bad deed, but without realizing it.
Mike Scott's more the "We're taking away free tampons on the women's room, because we just don't have the money for luxury goods." type, who's then baffled when he's called sexist because he legitimately believed tampons were a luxury. Not the "Promote a woman? Are you insane? This is a man's office sweetheart!" type.
I could totally see Dwight taking the PS5 for himself and mocking the kid over it though. Even then he'd do it out of Chaos, not Evil.
Michael kidnapped a pizza delivery boy because he didn't want to pay full prize. This fits right in.
It'd be nice if people stopped acting like fucking psychos.
$500 for good press or $0 for bad. Looks like Charlotte is as bad at math as they are at basketball.
Certain headlines get really funny if you pretend sports don't exist.
Or, in my case for this particular situation, if you are a foreigner and are missing a lot of context for American Sports.
The writer of this article is definitely a hornet.
The skit that "missed the mark"
That's called theft. Legally a gift is irrevocable once it's given.
Indeed, there was a story a while back where a bar had a contest for their staff; Whoever could sell the most drinks would receive a new Toyota.
Well one woman who really needed a new car busted her ass for that, and was taking to a parking lot where she was given a stuffed toy of Yoda from Star Wars; a "Toy Yoda"
She was told it was a joke and there was never any realistic chance of some local pub giving away new cars to minimum wage staff.
Well she sued over this joke, and actually won because during the contest she specifically asked what kind of Toyota it was and was told by her supervisor; the one who started the contest in the first place. That it very specifically was a real car that would be paid for in full and put in her name at no cost to her. Which invalidated any claim to this being a gag or a hoax.
You can imply that the prize is whatever you want it to be, and give whatever you want the prize to be. But the second you specify what the prize is in no unsubtle terms, you have to give it.
It's why I can say in a public ad that if you show up to my house wearing a Ballerina Outfit and a Cowboy Hat, and then knock on the door in the rhythm of the BGM "Bloody Tears", I will give you 100 Grand. You have no case if I hand you a candy bar literally called 100 Grand.
But if I said "That's right, one hundred thousand dollars in cash!", that wouldn't fly and you can take me to court.
But If I stayed on message and only said 100 Grand, using THAT exact phrasing, especially if I make other misleading but accurate claims like it being "100 Grand, yeah that's something to really sink your teeth into" then what I'm doing is hillarious.
By putting the PS5 Box in the kid's hands and saying he won a Playstation, that ended any ambiguity, taking away the box and giving him a Jersey was an act of fraud.
I guess I'll continue not watching basketball or football or whatever
"Did you see that ludicrous display last night?"
The thing about Arsenal is they always try to walk it in!
What fucking cheapskates.
Do they make their players turn out their pockets after each game in case they picked up some loose change off the ground too? Lol
I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
I mean I would get it if they had an empty box out on the court for the show, and then having to take away the empty show box... But they gave the kid a jersey instead? Wtf?
That's fucked up.
See this is why everyone hates Hornets, first the bullshit with the not making any honey and then this shit. They're so aggressive.
Reminds me of the time some asshole tried to switch some kid who was meant to walk out on the field with Zlatan with his own and got caught Link: https://youtu.be/NFYN3bY0kc8
The only conceivable explanation is that the person who planned this sees audience members as less than human.
wait what? did they go back to the store and ask for a refund on the PS5, lol.... someone was like "that is fine we will just apologize and save a couple hundred bucks!"
That sounds about right, I've never gotten anything nice from a hornet. The one time I did get something from a hornet, it was a painful disappointment.