I got Abercrombie on the first try, but I was answering the first question about see through yoga pants.
Corporate crooks Bernie Madoff (Madoff Investment Securities) and Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco) would have been two others to include but their companies are not as well known. What they did though was just as heinous.
There was a Malcolm Gladwell podcast about the Toyota acceleration issue. After listening to it, I am fairly convinced that there was no problem with Toyota vehicles and that the problem is explained by people who pressed the gas thinking they were hitting the brakes.
I was actually thinking of the other Toyota scandal around that time where breaks didn't work properly or delayed in Prius hybrid models. Way less cars were affected but I remember it clearly.
IsleDeHaute is correct, QM is not. I think it's strange that a quiz about American scandals cannot have discussions of related topics without being labeled 'political'. This quiz is political by that definition. I was surprised QM was the author.
Agreed, never heard of the Yoga pants or thongs scandals. But i don't fit the demographic to have been affected by either, plus they may have been US scandals that didn't make it across the pond.
Man, I feel like Purdue should also be on here for the opioid epidemic. Also, how did Monsanto not make it anywhere on this list? I literally typed them first before I read any questions just to get it out of the way, but it wasn't in there at all.
Their CEO didn't even back down. It's a guy, and his response was something very close to "We make pants for hot girls. We don't want fat girls wearing our stuff. If the right kind of girls wore our stuff, the pants wouldn't stretch and they wouldn't be see-through." It was really gross, but he also stands out as the only CEO to just shrug and say "Yeah, we're terrible. So what?" And he was kind of right. That brand is still really popular. Most people don't have the willpower to be inconvenienced for more than one purchasing cycle.
There's a very good doco about Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room. Also, it is very disappointing that there are no Australian banks on here. Westpac not complying with international money transfer regulations, and subsequently enabling some its customers to wire money internationally to known child sex traffickers and paedophiles is particularly disgusting. When the wire transfers became public, the banks' CEO Brian Hartzer reportedly told a board meeting that people wouldn't care, and to forget about it. I would have thought Fannie Mae would have got a mention here. Also, I think it's worth noting that Monsanto was bought in 2018 by...you guessed it, Bayer. Nestle too, probably deserve to be here.
I was in a corporate scandal once, it was at my uncle's tackle shop, you can put the pieces together. He was out "fishing" a lot, and would bring some "big catches" home, and they would stay in my "pond." He's been away on "business" for 40 years so I don't think he's coming back. LOL.
Corporate crooks Bernie Madoff (Madoff Investment Securities) and Dennis Kozlowski (Tyco) would have been two others to include but their companies are not as well known. What they did though was just as heinous.
In the future, please don't interject American politics into the comments section.