Sunday, April 06, 2008

Self Interest

From the "God I wish I hadn't said that" files....
Thus, Walgreen CEO Jeffrey Rein, speaking to shareholders, said “If attendees of the meeting needed to cough, he joked, they should leave the room and ‘go to a movie theater or on a bus’ to spread their germs. ‘We’re really hoping for a very strong flu season’.” While P&G CEO A.G. Lafley said on a quarterly analyst call: “Unfortunately, people have not been getting sick at a rate that we would all like yet.” Finally, LifePoint Hospitals CFO David Dill mused that "You have a strong flu season, and the ancillary business is very profitable . . . On the pediatric side, young kids coming into the hospital, that’s a nice margin for us, as well.”
Hat-tip to Concurring Opinions

2 comments:

Christie said...

I totally thought this was from The Onion. I had no idea it was real. Frakkin' a-holes.

B. E. Busby said...

This just sounds like scenes taken from the ever-so-wonderful, "Thank You for Smoking."