Signs that your company clearly sucks at life:
- You remove the AIG name and logo from your office buildings.
- Your CEO publicly admits that “the AIG name is so thoroughly wounded and disgraced that we’re probably going to have to change it”.
- You send memos to your employees telling them not to wear anything with AIG name to avoid being killed by the public mobs. “If you think you are being followed, immediately dial 911!”
- Your mismanagement has prompted Congress to tell AIG executives to kill themselves and attempt to apply a 90% tax to AIG bonuses.
- Your web site’s most prominent feature is a button bragging about how you are “Protecting customers, repaying taxpayers”.
- Your employees have e-mail addresses that read aloud as “a-i-gag.com” (alright, so the last one has nothing to do with the bailout, but I accidentally discovered this hilarious pronunciation of one of the company’s domain names when a client called technical support last week)
I was recently taken to a new low looking through this weekend’s newspaper. I am now the shamed owner of a coupon for a product called 
There are a few products in the marketplace that invoke a bizarre, nauseating reflex upon contact with our brains. These products, such as frozen bananas, are incredibly puzzling as the more they are contemplated, the more it becomes clear that their existence must solely be to invoke this bizarre, nauseating reaction. Why else could frozen bananas exist? Who could possibly be benefiting from crystallized precut chunks of curved yellow fruit? Worse still, who are the people being suckered into buying these bags of prepeeled, presliced, flash-frozen bananas? With fresh bananas readily available in all parts of the country and selling at retail for less than $0.39/lb., an amazing amount of labor in peeling bananas would be required before prepared frozen bananas would even remotely make economic sense. Has our society really deteriorated so much that