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0 pointsjakobe13y ago0 comments

There's no way that threatening someone to leave them stranded in a foreign country is the result of "miscommunication". This behaviour on Samsung's part is simply despicable.

Even if the bloggers had agreed to work for Samsung, and then changed their mind, holding return tickets ransom would not have been an acceptable course of action.

There is no way that this is explained by stupidity, this is malice in its purest form.

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aptwebapps13y ago

Mmmm, how about stupidity followed by malice? Pure malice doesn't make sense. What's so valuable about using foreign bloggers to stand around with phones instead locals?

I'd say Negitivefrags's guess is good. Something like that might have happened, and then when the bloggers didn't co-operate with the misinformed boss, the nasty stuff started.

panacea13y ago

Just speculating, but someone probably thought

"If they're not going to help us promote the brand, why should we pay for their plane ticket? They can just buy their own"

...without considering that the bloggers might not be as flush with cash as they are in their corporate world with expense accounts.

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