BOTW: James Warburton, the lucky general; Amazon moves in; Where’s your reputation, Alan? (It’s behind you)
Welcome to Best of the Week, mostly written on Friday, at various points between the Qantas lounge in Sydney and Evandale, Tasmania.
It regularly surprises me the amount of confidential information executives share during conference calls from the lounge.
If you work for a resource company and on Monday you’re told to be more careful with your expenses, you really should take the advice. They know exactly what you did, as do half of the other guests of the lounge. Your boss didn’t seem to understand that raising her voice to make herself heard on the call would also make herself heard across the lounge. If your company wasn’t scared of more bad publicity after that other fraud incident that made it into the newspapers, the cops would already be involved.
It’s not the first time. I’m starting to think I should pre-print a business card to hand to people in the lounge, saying “I’m a journalist and I can hear you”. At least it would bloody shut them up.
