It'd be nice if people stopped acting like fucking psychos.
this post was submitted on 18 Dec 2024
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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.
The only conceivable explanation is that the person who planned this sees audience members as less than human.
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
nice troll.
I bet the price of that console was going to break their bank.
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.
Corporate America....
It reminds me of the Santa mall scene in a Christmas Story
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?
I don’t understand how what you’re describing is better. If you make the kid think he’s just gotten a PS5 then to take it away is incredibly cruel. Giving him a jersey is just insult cherry on the shameful cake. Unless I am misunderstanding what you’re proposing?
Pretty sure they are saying use an empty box on the court (lighter, no risk of breaking), and then take away the empty box afterwards (implied to give them an actual, not-empty box afterwards).
I think they meant like theyd still give em a ps5 it just wouldn't have been in the box on camera.
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.
they apologized or gave it back. this apology was planned.
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.
Goddamn hornets, this is why everyone prefers bees
Speak for yourself. Bees are an invasive species given an unfair advantage through their alliance with humanity. If they aren't native to an area, they are a pest that competes with local pollinators and drives them toward extinction
But why just speak for yourself when you could speak for everyone?
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