Sunday WTF: Out of the closets, into the increased quarterly earnings expectations

A bizarre blog post at the Harvard Business Review suggests that bad business practices are basically the same thing as being a closeted gay:

The new Microsoft Surface tablet reportedly rips at the seam where keyboard cover meets tablet. Was it tested for durability? If not, why not? If it was, why was it allowed to go to market with such a defect? Probably because of the same kind of self-talk that goes on in a gay man’s head before he’s ready to come out: “Why make a big deal of it? It doesn’t really matter.” But when he finally comes out, he realizes it was the only thing that mattered, and that coming out transformed his life. Speaking the truth can do the same thing for businesses.

So which corporation is the analogue of Jodie Foster?

2 responses to “Sunday WTF: Out of the closets, into the increased quarterly earnings expectations”

  1. Rachel says:

    Toyota?

  2. Oh jeez. I guess everything that can be coƶpted and robbed of meaning eventually will be. I mean it’s gay-positive in a way that’s shocking now that I think about it, but at the same time distinctly trivializing.