...so it's nothing of the sort. Any more than winding up a company is 'murder'. Good grief, it's like saying if my auntie had balls she'd be my uncle (if that's even a saying that's still valid these days).
It is a global company with more than two centuries of managing money but for Abrdn jokes in the media about the lack of vowels in its name is no laughing matter. After changing its name three years ago, an executive at the fund manager formerly known as Standard Life Aberdeen has accused the media of “corporate bullying” that would not be acceptable if the business was a person.
Good grief!
“Would you do that with an individual? How would you look at a person who makes fun of your name day-in day-out? It’s probably not ethical to do it. But apparently with companies it is different,” he added.
Has he forgotten the artist formerly known as Prince then? He got tons of stick! As did Snoop Dog when he requested a name change to Snoop Lion.
...it settled on Abrdn in the spring of 2021, prompting scorn from City analysts, linguists and the press, who joked the company was experiencing “irritable vowel syndrome”, and was trying to be “too cool for schl”, and that the decision was “rlly stpd”.
All very amusing.
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In the land of Humza anything can become a hate crime. In the immortal line from Python, "Society is to blame", "That's alright sir, we'll be nicking them too".
How can you not mock this when it is so stupid on every level? Giving your company a name that is impossible to pronounce and the letters don't sound snappy when you spell them out either. Then getting all hurty when everybody points out that you're an idiot just makes him look an even bigger fool.
Stonyground.
Abrdn got so carried away by their trendy new name change that they apparently forgot to let some investors and pensioners know. An elderly relative of mine, cautioned by the family to beware of fraud, binned all their communications for over a year thinking they were the work of illiterate scammers.
"In the immortal line from Python, "Society is to blame", "That's alright sir, we'll be nicking them too"."
🤣
"How can you not mock this when it is so stupid on every level?"
Well, quite!
"An elderly relative of mine, cautioned by the family to beware of fraud, binned all their communications for over a year thinking they were the work of illiterate scammers."
😮
"In the immortal line from Python, "Society is to blame", "That's alright sir, we'll be nicking them too"."
🤣
"How can you not mock this when it is so stupid on every level?"
Well, quite!
"An elderly relative of mine, cautioned by the family to beware of fraud, binned all their communications for over a year thinking they were the work of illiterate scammers."
😮
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