Fake CSR

Richard Hillman

Looking for examples of where Companies who Promote Social/Environmental causes (Corporate Social Responsibility) that they plainly don't give a **** about.

For example:
I have been watching Sky Sports this week where they have been promoting LBGT issues, doing interviews with Gay people, trans peoples, LBGT groups, promoting the Premier League wearing rainbow laces, the presenters wearing pin badges with rainbows etc. The Premier league games ended on Thursday night and since then they have been running 2 minute ads on Sky Sports News about visiting Saudi Arabia :pac:

Another example is I work for a Company that is trying to eliminate plastic packaging, so they brought out new product lines with reusable cotton packaging. Great? When the products arrived in boxes they were all individually wrapped in plastic bags to keep them clean. We would then remove the plastic bags, throw them into the bin and put the "Plastic Free" Products out and tell the customers "we're trying to eliminate plastic packaging".

Then there is McDonald's, getting rid of plastic straws whilst having the plastic lids.

ytpe2r5bxkn0c1

Thank you for those fine examples. I have long felt that companies are only pushing the sustainability/equality agenda as a marketing ploy. Deep down they aren't concerned about anything but sales.

whiskeyman

Cadburys sponsoring school sports is a good one.
BP, Shell and all the big oil firms desperately trying to show green credentials.

I'd nearly agree with Srameen and say the majority or CSR is with a vested interest.
That said, many charities and needy projects are helped from it. It may be for the companies greater good, but at least they are finally giving something back.

sxt

Apple donate millions to charities but avoid billions in taxes. A two faced monster

Cee-Jay-Cee

No one actually gives a shít about this nonsense, not even those groups that are set up to specifically bring LGBT issues etc to the publics attention it’s all just a “look at me being so inclusive and empathic about others” BS.

Everyone is afraid to speak their mind in case some snowflake gets offended and so everyone puts on an act to pretend they care about the snowflakes feelings.

Sheridan81

WWE promoting the anti-bullying campaign, amongst other things. Hypocritical company. Stephanie McMahon is even on record saying that philanthropy is the future of marketing, or some such unappetizing spiel.

Captain Red Beard

Corporations do not give a **** about equality, the environment, their employees health. They care about profit, that's it. Championing causes is just free advertising.

Ubbquittious

Captain Red Beard wrote: »

Corporations do not give a **** about equality, the environment, their employees health. They care about profit, that's it. Championing causes is just free advertising.

It's all only auld sanctimonious rubbish I pay no heed to. I suppose there was a fad that some uppity fcuk would get a minion in the office to write a "CSR" and post it some place that nobody reads it as a box ticking excercise but one would have to be very naive to think it matters a damn

Obvious Desperate Breakfasts

Richard Hillman wrote: »

Looking for examples of where Companies who Promote Social/Environmental causes (Corporate Social Responsibility) that they plainly don't give a **** about.

For example:
I have been watching Sky Sports this week where they have been promoting LBGT issues, doing interviews with Gay people, trans peoples, LBGT groups, promoting the Premier League wearing rainbow laces, the presenters wearing pin badges with rainbows etc. The Premier league games ended on Thursday night and since then they have been running 2 minute ads on Sky Sports News about visiting Saudi Arabia :pac:

Another example is I work for a Company that is trying to eliminate plastic packaging, so they brought out new product lines with reusable cotton packaging. Great? When the products arrived in boxes they were all individually wrapped in plastic bags to keep them clean. We would then remove the plastic bags, throw them into the bin and put the "Plastic Free" Products out and tell the customers "we're trying to eliminate plastic packaging".

Then there is McDonald's, getting rid of plastic straws whilst having the plastic lids.

None of them give a crap about it. It’s all PR. Not practicing any CSR leaves a company the odd one out.

Capt'n Midnight

Unless it's someone pushing their private agenda or extra-curricular activity it's usually as genuine as Greenwashing or Astroturfing.

Capt'n Midnight

McDonalds are now offering vegan choices.

Because it's profitable.

endacl

“AIB. We can’t solve climate change by ourselves.....”

ChunkyLover54

Any alcoholic drink firm (e.g.Guinness, Heineken, Carlsberg) promoting the "drinkaware" campaign. Such disingenuous bull****ters.

Guy:Incognito

Capt'n Midnight wrote: »

McDonalds are now offering vegan choices.

Because it's profitable.

Do mcdonalds have vegan options? I've not seen any advertised.presumably the salad is, but that's been around ages.

Burger King have the meatless thing alright,

Quantum Erasure

'carbon tax'

PARlance

endacl wrote: »

“AIB. We can’t solve climate change by ourselves.....”

I get far more annoyed than I should, every time I hear that advert. Fcuk off, AIB.

stampydmonkey

PARlance wrote: »

I get far more annoyed than I should, every time I hear that advert. Fcuk off, AIB.

Sanctimonious drivel. Comes across as s Shower of leeches

Gynoid

PARlance wrote: »

I get far more annoyed than I should, every time I hear that advert. Fcuk off, AIB.

I seriously thought that was a parody when I heard it first. The plaintiff music, the sorrowful tones, the apology, the appeasement. Banks are all invested to their oxters in fossil fuels, pharmaceuticals, armaments, globalist industries that lick the sweat off the backs of the planets poorest to spit it back in our hyperactively consuming faces. Whoever scripted that ad deserved to be kicked so much they'd be begging for a box.