Months Later and Still Pissing People Off
I don't believe that admitting I'm wrong makes me less than a real man. It is many other things that make me less than a real man.
To summarize a continuing saga, I'm still receiving occasional comments to my April post naming CEO Rex Tillerson of Exxon Dickhead of the Week. Yesterday's post by anonymous (which I had no idea was such a common name!) reads like this:
Talk about a dickhead... you don't even know how to spell the name of the company!
Well, anonymous, if that is indeed your name, you're right. I did misspell the name of the company. Apparently, it's ExxonMobil, not Exxon Mobile.
But in fairness to myself, I'm not sure that misspelling the world's most profitable corporation's name makes me a dickhead (even a lowercase dickhead). There are many other things that make me a dickhead (even an uppercase Dickhead), perhaps, but poor spelling is not one of them.
If anything, I'm guilty of being able to tune out the ExxonMobil corporate branding efforts. At worst, this makes me clueless, autistic, or even retarded. At best, I am an unsusceptible consuming American. And we are a rare breed indeed.
posted by Dan G @ 7:18 AM
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1 Comments:
You both missed it. It's Exxon Mobil Corporation (note the space between Exxon and Mobil). Within Exxon Mobil Corporation, there are several companies (ExxonMobil - no space) ExxonMobil Chemical, ExxonMobil Refining, ExxonMobil Supply, etc.
Within ExxonMobil there are approximately 86000 employees and an equal number of annuitants that vote, go to church, pay their taxes, feed their families, serve on school boards, contribute to charities, volunteer in their communities, and support many other benevolent endeavors. They have been contributing to vs. taking from society for over 125 years.
The value of Exxon Mobil stock is supporting pension plans for millions of people who never worked for the company. In addition Exxon Mobil contributes millions of dollars to women, minority, scientific, and educational initiatives.
Exxon Mobil does not request or require your tax money to survive, yet pays billions of dollars in taxes. By comparison, your government threw away the equivalent of four Exxon Mobil's in the first stimulus package (can we say "where's the money"?).
As large as Exxon Mobil appears to be, they control only 3% of the world's oil reserves. This leads to an interesting question as to how much influence they really have.
As you sit and read this, you cannot put your hand on anything - food, medicine, creature comforts, etc. etc. etc. -- even wind turbines and solar panels -- that wasn't somehow directly or indirectly provided by oil.
Sometimes "reality" is not near as entertaining as ignorance...but hey, I guess we all need something to "shoot at" to give our trivial lives meaning.
Kindest Regards,
Charley
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