publicity whores
For some time I have been obsessed with Juile Roehm. She used to have pretty much the most objectionable job possible, which was to try and convince consumers Wal-Mart was "hip" through the powers of marketing, but then she was
fired in a way that actually made Wal-Mart look like the
good guy, because apparently the only kind of respectable policy they have is to not inadvertently contribute to waste by accepting free shit from advertising agencies and vendors and she broke that a bunch of times while on extended business trips to New York that were even further extended by the fact that she was screwing her underling, and then when she was fired she sued and Wal-Mart released all these
lovey-dovey emails between them that maybe they got from the underling's wife — they were, natch, both married — and suddenly the tabloids filled up with all these reports of them showing up in
pajamas at the Bentonville Starbucks and generally carrying on like two
Access Hollywood reporters clinging to one another in the middle of a war zone.
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business casual
Wal-Mart just
lost apparel chief Claire Watts, the second in a short but incredibly dramatic line of failed hires (Wal-Tart
Julie Roehm being first) Wal-Mart has made in an attempt to become "cool," and now rumors are
swirling that Wal-Mart's CEO will be forced out of the company, all because the company that has transformed the global economy, upended the landscape of small-town America and whose day-to-day sales fluctuations can put millions of Chinese in and out of jobs, has failed to find the elusive Carrie Bradshaw figure that completes its Mr. Big of product offerings. (Oh, god, you know, it's early, ok?)
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sluts of corporate america
We ordinarily would not interrupt our off-the-clock sitting on the couch with our laptops watching CNBC by actually bothering to POST something, but there is HUGE news about one of our most favoritest sluts, Julie Roehm, the marketing goddess who brought "sexy" to auto advertising and was fired from Wal-Mart for blah blah blah fucking. The reason we love Julie, you see, is that she's successfully made a second career out of being the "Sexiest Victim" of, like, the biggest corporate victimizer since probably the
banana company involved in all those CIA assasinations or whatever. ANYWAY, Julie just filed some court
papers saying that she wasn't the
only one at Wal-Mart who fucked around with subordinates! General Counsel Robert Rhoads did too! (Whooa, geek alert but the GC is kind of the wrong post from which to be infidelitizing!)
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bambi francisco
Savvy readers know that the phrase "ethical scandal" usually actually means "sex scandal" when a high-profile woman in corporate America is involved (ahem, CNBC Money Honey Maria Bartiromo, Wal-Mart ho Julie Roehm.) So as you can imagine, we scoured the stories on the strange departure of CBS Marketwatch columnist and Silicon Valley socialite Bambi Francisco for the libertarian arms of venture capitalist and
Thank You For Smoking co-producer
Peter Thiel for SOME mention of sex. And came up ...
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julie roehm
Julie Roehm is just a blog-gift that keeps giving and giving! After getting fired by Wal-Mart for being a
slut and a freeloader, she channeled the nation's Wal-Mart hate into a
second career for her and her beloved Sean. And just as she gave an "
exclusive" to
Business Week on how the "culture" at the company was just a "bad fit" for her fabulous Nobu-loving ways, and another "
exclusive" to
New York Magazine — and both mags kept calling their stories "exclusive"!! — she now has both her coworker AND her husband standing up for her in the face of what she calls evil Wal-Mart's smear campaign, which is to say, their release of
emails discussing Important Business Matters such as making out and being with one another "24/7/365 :)))))))))" and their obvious plant of a story in the (now edited by a former editor of
Star)
New York Post Business section about how Sean and Julie used to
show up at the Bentonville Starbucks in their pajamas together. According to the new issue of
Newsweek, Julie's hubby Mike — who hasn't, like Sean's wife, filed for divorce, no sir! — is sticking by her. Hasn't even read the lawsuit!
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