This story should probably be categorized as an anecdote – When Corporate Culture Shows Up on YouTube. The title alone is intriguing. Here is the tease:
Still, when the card-services division held a conference over the summer, organizers asked employees Ethan Chandler and Jim DeBois to write a song for the event. Basing it on U2’s smoldering ballad, “One,” the B of A employees rewrote the lyrics of the Irish rock band’s song and renamed it “One Bank.”
We here at The Hire Sense make it our duty to keep you informed of such items so here is the actual video via YouTube. I cringed all the way through it – think of it as bankers gone really wrong (with awful lyrics). I can’t imagine sitting in the audience at this training session without losing it.
One more example from the entertaining article:
When Steve Santagati worked at a TV company, he watched one colleague paste sticky notes with lyrics onto the microphone stand. The man also began gyrating and, mostly bald, he ran his fingers through his nonhair. “We’re hoping and praying they’re kidding,” says Mr. Santagati of collegial crooners, “and then there’s that moment when you realize they really think they’re like this — a sexy rock star.”