November 08 2006
One Bank
posted by Ana Samways at 2:30 pm
Unintentional comedy from a Bank of America conference. Sit through the initial introduction speech, we promise it’s worth it.
Via Cynical-C
Spare Room Be our guest…
Edited by Ana Samways & Steven Shaw
November 8th, 2006 at 3:45 pm
Dear God. I have not watched so much video through my fingers since the last Extras episode finished.
November 8th, 2006 at 8:13 pm
Probably should have dropped in a Powerpoint presentation to ram home some of the key points…maybe that came after the camera stopped rolling and they’d finished signing autographs. Nice job on guitar too.
November 9th, 2006 at 9:52 am
channeling david brent!
November 9th, 2006 at 10:47 am
“We’ll live out our core values,
While the competition crawls!”
priceless.
November 9th, 2006 at 11:09 am
Standing O nontheless… I feel violated
November 9th, 2006 at 2:11 pm
Grab the guitar…It’s free love on the free love highway.
November 9th, 2006 at 2:23 pm
Does Bono know?
November 9th, 2006 at 3:09 pm
And would John Howard prefer to talk with this guy instead?
November 9th, 2006 at 9:56 pm
Hey, I’m sure I’ve interviewed that guy. Many times. About the service value chain. Or the customer responsivity index. Or the solution solution. Or something.
November 10th, 2006 at 7:37 am
“Shoulder Tap” these guys to give them a “Heads Up” and “Keep Them in the Loop”….
November 10th, 2006 at 7:54 am
A standing ovation – really!!!!???? – I wish I could have seen their faces when he was singing….
November 10th, 2006 at 9:08 am
I couldn’t resist googling Ethan Chandler and this is what I found.
http://www.awarestore.com/artist2673
November 10th, 2006 at 9:41 am
goodness, that had a car crash quality to it. I bet that guy can strengthen productivity while efficiently moving forward as a team and actioning integrated restructutable units and at the same time remain outcomes focussed. What a wanker.
November 10th, 2006 at 9:45 am
About 2mins into it I looked down and saw that David Slack had written my life. That is 4m 39s of my life that I will never get back, and now I have to make other people feel my pain. What an awful, awful cycle you have started…
November 10th, 2006 at 9:49 am
[...] This video clip is doing the rounds of the internet and I’ve got to pass it on to you all – it’s a wee tribute song to two banks in America which have recently merged to create ‘one bank’ – ANZ National anyone? [...]
November 10th, 2006 at 9:55 am
That has to be the limpest standing ovation I’ve ever seen. Why wont companies realise the demoralising effect of well meaning corporate cheerleading displays. Pretty funny though.
November 10th, 2006 at 10:18 am
And they say Americans don’t get irony.
November 10th, 2006 at 11:51 am
LEEEADING US ON TO -
HIGHER STAAA-YA-YA-AAANDARDS!! oooo, mmmm…
Oh yeah, sing it!
November 10th, 2006 at 12:57 pm
When did Bono lose his hair & get so fat?
November 10th, 2006 at 1:37 pm
… i dunno – with the success of the ‘american office’ and the fact that that guy hits a number of carefully crafted selling-points; i’m not sure this isn’t just a well-placed piece of viral marketing… perhaps they get irony more than we think…?
November 10th, 2006 at 2:46 pm
I wonder if they’ll be as pleased with his efforts when the record company sues them for unauthorised use of copyright material… hell, someone has to be made to pay for that shirt n tie combo!! ewwwwwww
November 10th, 2006 at 11:25 pm
This is genius.
November 11th, 2006 at 8:37 am
OK, as much as I want to believe that this is genuine, a friend of mine seems sure that this is a viral ad. The more I think of it this way, the more it seems to make sense to me. Anyone else?
November 11th, 2006 at 8:51 am
Oh my – that was painful. Like watching the special ed. kid in the dance recital.
November 11th, 2006 at 9:25 am
Oh…My….God! That wasn’t a standing ovation..they were all going to the toilet to pmsl
November 11th, 2006 at 10:14 am
This isn’t the half of it… there are also videos of Green Day’s Basket Case… and another whose name escapes me for the moment… JEEESUS
November 11th, 2006 at 10:16 am
Too bad Flash 8 isn’t supported for Linux yet. I was looking forward to watching this one.
November 11th, 2006 at 11:15 am
has anyone informed the daily show yet?
November 11th, 2006 at 11:17 am
Flash 9 is in beta
http://labs.adobe.com/downloads/flashplayer9.html
November 11th, 2006 at 2:40 pm
I got Goose bumps and then punched my self in the face.
November 11th, 2006 at 2:56 pm
Here’s Ethan’s down low on his new album.
“YOU GOTTA GET UP FROM THE DOWN, THERELL BE BETTER DAYS AHEAD& , sings 28 year-old Ethan Chandler on the title track from his independently released CD Better Days Ahead . This record is about moving on from the past; getting up from the things that bring you down in life and looking forward to better days. Ten songs later you have a record with a common thread of loss mixed with hope that things will change for the better. I wanted to make a record that was about how hard life can be when you love people and then they leave; whether you wanted them to or not. I was at a point in life when people where moving in and out of my life. So a lot of this record is about relationships because relationships are hard, whether they are romantic or not. They take a lot of work and they take two people who are willing to accept each other unconditionally and sometimes thats not even enough. Sometimes people come into your life for a reason and they leave just as fast and it doesnt”
Someone call Dr. Phil/
November 11th, 2006 at 5:35 pm
[...] One Bank Today’s crime against music was brought to you by Bank of America. (tags: Funny) [...]
November 11th, 2006 at 8:27 pm
Oh dear.
CG says:
November 10th, 2006 at 7:37 am
“Shoulder Tap” these guys to give them a “Heads Up” and “Keep Them in the Loop”….
I say ‘double tap’ them
November 11th, 2006 at 9:03 pm
My wife works for a bank, and they do this sort of thing all the time.It’s normal. She thought it was great!
November 11th, 2006 at 10:04 pm
Ordinary.
It could have been worse, at least he can carry a tune
November 11th, 2006 at 10:33 pm
Even if you don’t listen to the words, there’s something wrong with someone singing whilst wearing a name tag.
November 12th, 2006 at 1:25 am
i would love to touch base with those fellas
November 12th, 2006 at 2:35 am
Look what I found….
https://www.cdbaby.com/cd/ethan
November 12th, 2006 at 3:06 am
i agree with deanbc…they were too polished and the production values too “good” for this NOT to be advertising. and he wasn’t nervous enough.
November 12th, 2006 at 7:31 am
where can i get me an application form for their credit card – I need to max it and leave the country stating a violation of terms and conditions to my non payment of the outstanding balance!
November 12th, 2006 at 10:25 am
What a complete geek! Is he brown nosing or what!
November 12th, 2006 at 1:14 pm
Humm.. Obviously viral marketing. But still good… Oh well.
November 13th, 2006 at 2:21 am
That was quality. Ok, so it was a bit corporate, but in tune and done well. And a lot less wanky that the stomach-churning U2 version.
Give the guy a break and buy his album
November 13th, 2006 at 11:41 am
Irony deficiency alert!
November 13th, 2006 at 1:31 pm
If its viral marketing, what are they selling?
November 13th, 2006 at 1:43 pm
Hair removal cream?
November 13th, 2006 at 7:51 pm
does everything that is quite amusing have to be a viral marketing campaign? This actually is the sort of thing that goes on at these conferences.
November 13th, 2006 at 7:56 pm
Utter shite!
November 13th, 2006 at 10:29 pm
For me the end is the best bit. The audience appears either bored or cringing, yet must stand up because the person next to them did.
November 14th, 2006 at 2:58 am
What an audition! A Potential winner of X- factor
November 14th, 2006 at 5:04 am
I just can’t help feel a tinge of horror about all the dumb-ass s**t I have done that is on video somewhere… these poor bastards hardly deserve a global pillorying, but they’re getting one. Anyone now MUST have to feel scared about being in front of a video camera – sex tapes aren’t the only things not intended for public consumption.