And NOT just wrong – a hilarious, remarkable, complete and utter failure.
Tomorrow at 1pm ET $JPM Vice Chairman Jimmy Lee takes over @JPMorgan to answer your questions for 1 hour. Tweet your Q early using #AskJPM
Matt Taibbi in the Rolling Stone: Chase’s Twitter Gambit Devolves into All-Time PR Fiasco Link
Only on Wall Street would a bank that’s about to pay out the biggest settlement in the history of settlements unironically engage the public, expecting ordinary people to sincerely ask one of their top-decision makers for career advice.
The responses were instantaneous, amazing and vicious:
Does the sleaze wash off with a regular shower, or do you have to use something special like babies tears?
Do your clothes fit better since you don’t have the added weight of a soul?
As a white male, with no real skills, but a COMPLETE lack of ethics, how quickly would I be fast tracked up the corporate ladder?
What’s it like working with Mexican drug cartels? Do they tip?
I have Mortgage Fraud, Market Manipulation, Credit Card Abuse, Libor Rigging and Predatory Lending… AM I DIVERSIFIED?
Did you have a specific number of people’s lives you needed to ruin before you considered your business model a success?
In very short order – the Twitter Q&A was cancelled.
Matt Taibbi also had a “Chase Twitter Fail” Haiku Contest. Link People can be pretty creative – when they’re pissed off. He got a lot of entry’s, here’s a couple that are safe for work. (Most are not!)
My mom wants to know
How you like her house, her porch,
Her climbing roses.Parasite bankers
With unbridled arrogance
Solicit questions
A couple of related stories, here and here.
I guess what’s most amazing is the huge glass bubble these jerks live in, and the total lack of acknowledgement of the chaos and damage they created.