{"id":7754,"date":"2015-05-27T21:41:24","date_gmt":"2015-05-28T01:41:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7754"},"modified":"2015-05-27T21:41:24","modified_gmt":"2015-05-28T01:41:24","slug":"mcdonalds-flawlessly-deploys-jmu-like-monitoring-the-situation-strategy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jmusportsblog.com\/?p=7754","title":{"rendered":"McDonalds Flawlessly Deploys JMU-Like “Monitoring the Situation” Strategy"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"monitor<\/a>It was a bad day for FIFA. Fourteen officials from international soccer’s governing body were arrested on corruption charges by the US Department of Justice. Seeing as how the United States is now treating FIFA as a criminal organization like the mafia, you’d forgive any corporation that had poured millions of sponsorship money into the cesspool of an institution it if it went running for the hills.<\/p>\n

One such corporation is McDonalds. Fear not though, shareholders of the Golden Arches. Ronald, Grimace, the Hamburgler and the rest of the powers that be know just what to do. They’re not rushing to judgment or making any hasty decisions. They’re taking a page out of the JMU administration’s book and “monitoring the situation.”<\/a> Very closely to be precise.<\/p>\n

I see no way this strategy won’t work. There is zero downside. Unless of course you consider thousands of people<\/del> a few dozen folks collaborating to objectively analyze the situation and formulate a cogent plan to effect change<\/del> spending years bitching about it on message boards, to be downside. I mean if that’s downside, then the precedent set by JMU’s experience means that Mickey D’s is hosed.<\/p>\n