All apologies
What better time than the last day of the year to rehash bad behavior:
“‘Glowering,’ I meant ‘glowering’”: Among the best apologies by CEOs in the past year was Boeing’s own Jim McNerney who had to walk back comments that he had no plans to retire because “the employees will still be cowering.” His contrite admission: “I should have used different words” (Page A12).
We think the different words he was reaching for were something like: “Why yes, perhaps I should retire.”
Karma-chanic: Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella’s advice that women shouldn’t ask for raises because it’s “good karma” to be patient, later admitted his response was “inarticulate” (Page A12).
We checked, and none of the Microsoft board members who OK’d Nidella’s $84 million pay package goes by the last name of “Karma.”
Fool’s gold: Doomsday preppers and others are owned an apology by those who told them to buy gold, as sales of gold coins fall and the price has dropped $600 an ounce from two years ago (Page A12).
The good news is the gold will keep longer than the freeze-dried ice cream in their bunkers.
—Jon Bauer, Herald staff
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