Almost Winners:
"Sorry to disrupt you, but I thought you'd want to see this before things got out of hand."
Marly Hazen McQuillen
CTSI-Global
"We just happened to run out of everything at the exact same time".
Dan McClelland
Lehigh Cement Company
Other Great Entries:
"You had a really bright future, didn't you?"
Jeff Parks
"I'm really hoping that the "Too Big To Fail" excuse will fly this time."
Eli Alvarez
Boston Scientific
"I really thought implementing the new software system on the
same weekend as the new product launch was great idea."
Wil Biscardi
HALL'S WAREHOUSE CORP.
"I thought any publicity was good publicity."
Leonard Ladislaw
LT Apparel
"This time we were ready for the earthquake, the tsunami and the nuclear meltdown, but we never saw the tribble infestation coming…"
Ken McKeever
PLS Logistics Services
"We can tell them 'The chain just broke and we have a new one on order.'"
Sue B. Brittain
Graybar
"We considered every single risk except the risk of avoiding all risks."
Stuart Hasell
Solving Efeso (UK) Limited
"I've made it policy not to hire the Roadrunner or his relatives anymore."
Danny Fung, SCMP
Jet Equipment & Tools Ltd.
"We were really hoping to have the problem fixed before you found out."
George Crawford
Graybar
"Should have listened to you... cost is secondary to service"
Peter Wijnen
"How was I to know that the customer was a national business newspaper?"
Keith Paul
NEI
"Sir, we decided to revert back to an easier to understand "broad brush" approach to communications."
Dustin Offersen
Polaris Industries
"The bad news is: what you read is true, the good news is: you don't work here anymore."
Dean Atkinson
Bobcat Company
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