A friend once told me that the problem with London was that it was a provincial town laboring under the illusion that it's a cosmopolitan city.
Certainly the Christmas missive from the London office (note Christmas not 'Holiday') showed a crass insensitivity. I thought that the 'do you have holiday Tourette's?' section of the video (the word 'fuck' repeated over 50 times by various high-ups in the office) was kinda funny but I'm pretty sure my amusement wasn't shared by the women in the Shanghai office who'd be more bemused than amused... and for all the open mouthed guffawing in New York many were slack jaw'd with horror.
I know that the amount of drinking, lesbian gags and swearing flying around the place is enough fodder for a law suit that could kill the company - and that it's only a matter of time before it comes. Yet meanwhile we continue down a very laddish path... it'll be great while it lasts
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For "provincial town laboring under the illusion that it's a cosmopolitan city" see Boston, Massachusetts, 02133
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