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Comment on Woolworths CEO Brad Banducci announces retirement after ABC interview walkout

Whoever came up with the idea of putting him In a team member uniform and filming the interview in a supermarket should also “retire”. Australians absolutely hate inauthentic behaviour, especially from the wealthy and powerful. Woolworths was never going to soften public opinion with that strategy and should have just gone full corporate damage limitation mode like Coles.

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naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
are you kidding? we are pathetically prostrate. Our culture is passive and obedient to a fault, and I mean that last part.

Remember the mining tax? we fucking love deep throating billionaires. Remember the outcry when extinction rebellion did literally anything? we hate authentic behaviour.

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- fosstulate@iusearchlinux.fyi ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Those traits are pitfalls of being a high trust society.
  
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- Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
  Is that the mining tax which the Gillard government introduced after publicly declaring there would be no carbon tax? That whole saga was perceived as inauthentic behaviour by the electorate and they were punished for it.
  
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  - naevaTheRat@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    are you sure it wasn’t fear of mah jerbs and temporarily embarrassed millionaires voting against their own interest.
    
    Pick negative gearing, wealth taxes, free uni whatever we fucking suck.
    
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    Ilandar@aussie.zone ⁨8⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago
    
    it had nothing to do with the mining tax or carbon tax.
    
    Yes it did. The “carbon tax” was one of several key issues jumped on by the Coalition to push the idea that Gillard was untrustworthy and inauthentic, which was a big problem for her considering she was seen as having stolen power by orchestrating a coup against a prime minister. She has directly acknowledged this herself. Watch ‘The Killing Fields’, it was a massive problem for Labor. The fact that there were other problems for Labor during that election does not mean this was not one of them.
    
    Also mining tax was separate from the carbon tax you Dill.
    
    Can you read? I never said they were the same thing. I said the electorate perceived it to be inauthentic behaviour.
    
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