Weekly Newsletter - 26th November 2008
Lost your job? Get a cheap
holiday
I can’t decide if this man is a genius, or a total imbecile.
Either way, check out this petty publicity stunt milking the financial crisis.
The
company: adventure holiday firm, Dragoman. The mastermind: Adam Dixon-Smith. The
premise: If you’ve been made redundant since the world financial crisis started
(these guys reckon it began on 15th September with the fall of the Lehman
Brothers, FYI) then you get ten per cent off a holiday.
I suppose it’s quite a nice gesture really. You’ve been “let go”, You’re
wondering what to do next. What better way to re-evaluate one’s life than
buggering off on a tour to Africa in a 6-wheeled, ten tonne truck ala Dragoman?
I mean, that’s what any sane person would do.
Unless they were scrambling to find a new job, pay their mortgage or, god
forbid, invest their scant savings into starting a venture and becoming an
entrepreneur. That’s just for weirdos.
Read
more.....
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