A time to stop and face the (shower) curtain….
Although far and few between, there are some occasions when a PR professional has to stop and evaluate is there any point fighting what is inevitably a losing battle. After all there are only so many times you can defend the indefensible.
I think PR representatives for former Tyco Chairman L. Dennis Kozlowski must feel they are looking down the barrel of a gun. Dennis’ personal expenses are no laughing matter – $6,000 for a shower curtain, $2,200 for a wastebasket, $1,650 for a (paper) notebook, a $17,100 traveling toilette box, a $445 pin cushion, $5,960 for sheets and the piece de resistance $1m of company funds for his wife’s birthday in Sardinia…. [more]