As a followup to Wednesday's Post Northwest Airlines Encourages Employees to Dumpster Dive, I contacted NEAS,the company responsible for suggesting that dumpster diving is a great way to save money.
Here is their media response
As far as apologies go it is rather pathetic. Instead of acknowledging how incredibly insipid and offensive the booklet is, they apologize for the distribution and then have the audacity to finger-point the real responsibility to some unknown author. Give me a break!
Eventually they get around to saying they apologize that "some of the information was not appropriate "but the kicker is they end up this media memo by putting the responsibility right back on the folks who were offended by saying
" and was felt to be offensive"
Here's the deal. People didn't just feel it was offensive. It was offensive.
A requests for an interview was denied --the very cordial spokesperson assured me the memo would answer all of my questions and that the company was not issuing any further statements on the issue.
The big question is " If NEAS didn't write the copy, who did?"
Also, the dumpster diving was just one of many ludicrous suggestions. MN Headhunter has the list in its entirety.
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