This Is Awkward

17 Replies to “This Is Awkward”

1. That kicks the crap out of “there / their / they’re” mime that regularly passes through most websites / facebook accounts…
   Tragic / funny that it’s from a news media firm too.

2. Wait, you mean its a fail beacuse they overlap at all, right?

3. Isn’t it a fail because the little “our values” circle isn’t completely inside the bigger circle of Trust Partnership, etc.? That the overlap area is so tiny?
   It doesn’t matter anyway because all this “mission statement” verbiage is utter horseshit anyway.

4. Must have been a biased study.
   No way do any of their values intersect with the larger circle.
   Oh OK Performance, their impersonation of presstitutes is very life like.

5. Math is hard.

6. The designer’s experience with Venn diagrams apparently intersects even less.

7. Who says its a design fail. Maybe that is their corporate culture. Seems accurate to me.

8. Oops.

9. Nothing wrong at all. It was meant to be an internal memo.

10. The separation of circles is a fail, but so is the laughably small size of their values circle.

11. What’s particularly awesome is that you just know that about 12 people insisted that they had to sign off on this before it got printed.

12. What’s so funny?
    Oh, I see that “Values” are over-represented. Moving on.

13. Horror of horrors – some of these muppets will vote.

14. The little Red Thomson-Reuters Death Star doesn’t intersect at all with the Yellow ‘Our Values’ or Orange ‘Trust/Partnership/Innovation/Performance’.
    LOL

15. Makes sense, the small intersection is for innovation. They find innovative new ways to lie to us.

16. I will bet dollars to doughnuts that some high-priced ‘design’ firm was brought in to do this job. (And not Rick Moranis’s “Logos R Us”) Thomson-Reuters easily paid a $million for it.
    Old Torontonian Ken Thomson must be rolling in his grave. The billionaire who took the TTC to the office, and brought his own lunch (a sandwich made at home) was renowned (notorious?) for being frugal.

17. As Venn diagrams go, that one seems a bit generous with the overlap. Agree with Fred2 above, those circles shouldn’t be touching. “Integrity” particularly has nothing whatever to do with the values of Leftist journos.
    And as Kathy Shaidle says, there’s obviously a whole bunch of highly paid morons in high places at Thompson Reuters who don’t know what a Venn Diagram is, or why anyone would think this is funny, or what we are even talking about here.
    I’m sure anyone who tried to explain why this picture was a really bad idea to said MORONS was either censured or fired. Morons don’t like it when somebody knows more than them. Makes ’em feel all insecure and stuff.
    Additional proof of the existence of morons in high places at Thompson Reuters can be gleaned from reading their “news” coverage.