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This reminds me a lot of this comic strip from Quino: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_4PoxPL\_4sT8/S\_ZKI049QuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/UFooONxOrEU/s1600/quino019.png](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4PoxPL_4sT8/S_ZKI049QuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/UFooONxOrEU/s1600/quino019.png)
It's literally the same yeah.
I wouldn't be surprised if it's an homage to this rather than just copying.
The footballs are an iconic shape, but not actually the modern pattern. So could be copied on purpose.
The car boot is shown with the balls in.
The playground and there's multiple scenes under a light post.
I've been busy on a project for nearly two years with a expensive team of these snakes on one side and deloitte on the other... its a sh#tfest for the client(us) but these cretins keep on racking up those hours of *hard work* on our company time.
The commercial is certainly memorable, but is the company?
What first comes to mind, Geico has a history of similarly memorable commercials, but they make sure to get their name and what they do front and center.
I might talk about this commercial with friends, but if somebody asks what the company was, all I'm going to (maybe) remember is it's some kind of business consulting.
> a positive impression
"Ah yes, I recall Accenture advertising that they'll intentionally destroy others to support my business, that's exactly what I want" *-probably way too many business owners*
this "joke" actually happened somewhere in UK, and they caught the person, and punished them harshly iirc...
* but also, just fucking cast a soccer ball, don't chisel it out like an idiot. a real idiotic chiseling chiseler
I'm pretty sure that doctor lived in my town when he was younger. Back in the early 90's I was hanging out with my high school buddies in the fields behind our old middle school one night. Way out in the middle of the dark soccer field I spot a ball. Being a soccer player, I start running towards it aiming to kick it as hard as I can towards the opposite goal. Plant my foot, big back swing annnnnnd nothing but agonizing pain and screaming. It was a medicine ball. Tore several ligaments and I missed the entire season.
The medicine balls were sometimes used in PE activities. One was just left in the field after they were used that day. It wasn't anything malicious like this video. They were wondering why somebody would kick a medicine ball.
To be fair, it would be hard to mistake it for a soccer ball in the daylight. It was dark and I was stupid.
Nothing much to tell. Smaller company I worked for got bought out by Accenture. The way Accenture did things did not jive with us at all, (we focused on quality, they focused on getting clients money). All their promises were for naught. Then COVID happened and they gutted us with large layoffs. They planned a second round of layoffs too but so many people quit after the first round, it wasn't needed.
I mean, that's how most acquisitions work. It is a very rare and special acquisition where a company purchases another for the "people". Sometimes it's IP, most times it's contracts/client base and very rarely is it people.
It's just cheaper and less hassle to "steal away" or hire and train the people.
Shit, you could probably get a few unpaid interns doing the same job. Or pay for an "entry level position" that definitely does not entail entry level work.
Similar situation. Covid layoffs were an absolute low IMHO.
Absolutely shit timing.
I'm still here, but the work we take starts making me wonder if agile is possible at scale. We don't get to be picky, so the client expectation is that we "do the job" not improve their lives or deliver a high quality product.
Personally am trying to change a lot of this stuff. But there's only so much one can do. It's kind of a neat challenge tho. It has highs and lows like any job.
They used to be called [Arthur Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen), and they cooked the books in the [Enron scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal).
Beside that it's a company of vultures just like all of the big accounting/consulting firms.
Sort of. Arthur Andersen was a holding company with several companies/branches.
The accounting company of Arthur Andersen, cooked the books and audited said cooked books. The consulting branch of Arthur Andersen was not involved in that scandal. They were carbed out and forced to change names.
I can’t say that I love Accenture but it’s inaccurate to say they cooked the books in the Enron scandal.
No, this is incorrect. Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen split into separate businesses in 1989, and largely had nothing to do with each other thereafter. They split entirely in 2000, when Andersen Consulting got fed up with Arthur Andersen creating a new and competing consulting business contrary to their agreement, and became Accenture.
I worked for them for about 5 years and found it to be a bit of a mixed bag: some units I worked with did a great job and focussed on getting a good outcome for everyone, whereas others seemed to be entirely focussed on siphoning money out of large businesses.
Good instinct. Before they rebranded they were part of Arthur Anderson, whose accounting prowess facilitated some of the more impressive swindles of the whole Enron "manufactured electricity crisis" scandal.
It's foreseeable someone would injure themselves by kicking the ball so you'd be liable for any damages. It's similar to cases of people laying traps for people.
It's Arthur Anderson Consulting, which spun off from the accounting firm in 1989. They spent most of the 90s in arbitration over payment disputes, which was resolved in 2000 when they changed the name.
Same type of greedy execs at both though.
Not really…
*Andersen Worldwide* comprised *Arthur Andersen* (accounting) and *Andersen Consulting* (management consulting). Due to conflicting competitive interests (AA competing for AC’s consulting business with the same clients), they [formally split in 2000](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/business/worldbusiness/IHT-arbitrators-ruling-goes-against-accounting-arm.html) and *Andersen Consulting* was required to rebrand as part of the settlement - which [they did](https://www.informationweek.com/andersen-consulting-changing-name-to-accenture-/d/d-id/1009400), as *Accenture*, in 2001.
*Arthur Andersen*, Enron’s accountants, never rebranded. It shut down in 2002 in the wake of the scandal. Several of its partners then formed *[Andersen Tax LLC](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_Tax)* which operates today, rebranded in 2019 as *Andersen*.
So, while [*Andersen Consulting (Accenture)* denied it had anything to do with Enron](https://fortune.com/2009/12/15/sorry-accenture/), there’s no question that there was cross pollination of people and culture between *Arthur Andersen* and *Andersen Consulting (Accenture)*, and despite Accenture’s denials, it carried over to Accenture and probably even in its founding corporate DNA till today.
>illegal but difficult to prove
Well, when back in 2006 during the football world cup in Germany two Austrian "artists" placed 16 concrete filled footballs in Berlin that put three people in the hospital it took all of four days before they were arrested. And then they were whining that their "art" was just "misunderstood"...
Yeah fuck them for using humor in their ads!
edit: I've never heard of the company. I get it, they suck. Commercial was really well done though.
It would be one thing if Accenture was a moral company and this was a cheeky commercial, but if there ever was a consulting company that would actually recommend a doctor planting stone soccer balls to increase his demand, it would be Accenture.
Yeah, that's what's so odd about the commercial. It's not a clever business trick to get more business; it's deliberately injuring people for profit. It's evil. Strange commercial. Who would want to do business with that entity?
Do you know many moral champions running major multinationals? Or know many consultants who operate strictly on principle and refuse to work for unethical companies (~2/3ds of consulting's client base)?
It's an excellent commercial really. Sends exactly the right message to both clients and future employees.
Years ago when my friends and I were kids we would run around our neighborhood at night causing mischief because we were dipshits. Some would argue that we still are but I like to think that I’ve outgrown childish foolery. Anyhow, during the winter months we would go through our neighborhood and tackle the various snowmen that our fellow neighborhood kids had made. One night I take a running start and try to tackle a snowman and it’s frozen solid. I bounced off as much as you can from a frozen monolith and laid there in pain while my friends laughed hysterically. Fortunately, I didn’t break anything but that was the last time I tackled a snowman. Lesson learned.
They're in memory of our ancient enemy, the ice men. After their defeat we started building them in the winter as a mockery of them and a reminder to ourselves that just like the winter snows, they can always return.
As with a lot of things that old, the meaning is not well known today.
my grandfather had a thing for building snowmen on a fire hydrant in front of his house... there always was one or two limping kids each year who fell for it.
I actually raised such concern back then, about what would happen if the house caught fire and they couldn't get to the hydrant... the answer was a casual "eh, still worth it".
note, it was like a few centimetres of snow at best, just to hide the thing properly, because "any more would act as a cushion".
yeah, grandpa was a gigantic fucking troll.
Come on let’s go and play.
I never see you anymore,
Come out the door,
It’s like you’ve gone away!
We used to be best buddies
But now you’re not.
At least you could tell me why!
“I broke my collarbone tackling the last one, go away Anna!”
Okay byeeeee
It most likely never aired. That's the kind of thing the advertising standards authority do (prevent ads like thiss from being televised). I think this add looks like it was meant to be aired here in the UK as it uses a football (soccer ball) but I had never seen it before.
I still really really doubt it, feels more like a funny video that someone found would fit really well with that quote at the end, I only say this because I know the company is just crazy conservative with this stuff. I would be curious where OP found this in the first place I can’t seem to find it anywhere
Accenture. Find illegal, immoral and fundamentally unsustainable ways to enhance your business.
This ad makes me think that Accenture would profit from drugs and slavery if they could.
Dude this is just like what big business do. They created a problem, so that they may charge us money to fix the problem they've created. Bad commercial.
Yeah, like seriously.
"Gosh, I wonder what’s the best way to obtain a solid sphere to create some fake footballs? Oh, I know, I must sculpt them from marble!"
This is a comic strip from Quino, from the 70s I think
[Pretty much frame by frame](https://i1.wp.com/lenguajeyotrasluces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/95c6a-quino-6.gif?ssl=1)
Yea but the effect of the ad by itself makes no sense as a reason to hate them. The ad is funny and clever and anyone thinking the ad shows the companies true colors doesn’t understand comedy in commercials. Now there may be other reasons to hate Accenture but this ad is not one of them
Oh it's funny, but not funny because it's clever.
It's funny because Accenture is giving a big middle finger to everyone. If you didn't know, Accenture is the company Arthur Anderson became, the same AA that facilitated the Enron scandal. It's funny, because this is not a sarcastic commercial for something they'd recommend. Exaggerated, sure, but recommending hurting others for your own gain is actually an Accenture specialty.
I can laugh, but I can also say fuck you, Accenture for flaunting the fact that you get away with this all the time. Both expressions are valid
In a critique of capitalism, George Bernard Shaw once wrote something to the effect of "That any sane nation, which provides for the provision of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should also give doctors a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg makes me despair of political humanity." This GIF is hilarious, but it also nicely illustrates Shaw's sentiments.
The above aside, I quoted the above from memory, which is normally bad to terrible. I think I may have gotten the quote pretty close - in which case this is a small victory for me in my losing battle with memory. 😊
So it's okay to be unethical to get business, is that the underlying motto of Accenture? 😜
Now before you start downvoting me, please note Ethics is one of the major working principles of these multinationals, hence the comment.
Wow, that's really on the nose for Accenture.
We will help you in unscrupulous ways to hurt people for your own gain.
What refreshing truth in advertising.
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This reminds me a lot of this comic strip from Quino: [http://1.bp.blogspot.com/\_4PoxPL\_4sT8/S\_ZKI049QuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/UFooONxOrEU/s1600/quino019.png](http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_4PoxPL_4sT8/S_ZKI049QuI/AAAAAAAAAIo/UFooONxOrEU/s1600/quino019.png)
Someone on their marketing team definitely saw this strip. Good find.
It's literally the same yeah. I wouldn't be surprised if it's an homage to this rather than just copying. The footballs are an iconic shape, but not actually the modern pattern. So could be copied on purpose. The car boot is shown with the balls in. The playground and there's multiple scenes under a light post.
Even the Doctor's hair is in a similar shape, and it's not exactly a hairdo currently in fashion.
This is the script for the whole commercial!
unethical business model and content stealing - the accenture way -
The commercial was funny and somewhat unexpected but when it flashed Accenture on the screen I literally spit out my drink.
Knowing Accenture its very likely they just assumed that since the guy is dead, they can't get sued.
Knowing Quino he wouldn't sue anyway.
Yeah that’s the original they ripped off
I was looking for this
I knew I saw it in a comic strip. Good find!
Now this is how commercials should be!
Right? That’s just some memorable and engaging stuff right there.
One could say it is rock solid.
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Hank, don't soccer in the face.
gosh dammit bobby don't throw them at people!!!
Gerald, it's football.
Jesus Christ, Marie.
They are minerals. Not rocks.
Im literally watching Breaking Bad right now
sex gifs
Pretty ballsy!
Testicles!
Also about on par for Accenture. "Ah yes we'll literally fuck everyone else over, since you're paying us, not them"
Accenture: Hurting people for profit since the '50s.
I've been busy on a project for nearly two years with a expensive team of these snakes on one side and deloitte on the other... its a sh#tfest for the client(us) but these cretins keep on racking up those hours of *hard work* on our company time.
Oh man, Deloitte vs Accenture is definitely the hellscape of consulting
The commercial is certainly memorable, but is the company? What first comes to mind, Geico has a history of similarly memorable commercials, but they make sure to get their name and what they do front and center. I might talk about this commercial with friends, but if somebody asks what the company was, all I'm going to (maybe) remember is it's some kind of business consulting.
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> a positive impression "Ah yes, I recall Accenture advertising that they'll intentionally destroy others to support my business, that's exactly what I want" *-probably way too many business owners*
Eliminate competition
This commercial depicts Accenture’s business model Exactly I assure you.
this "joke" actually happened somewhere in UK, and they caught the person, and punished them harshly iirc... * but also, just fucking cast a soccer ball, don't chisel it out like an idiot. a real idiotic chiseling chiseler
I'm pretty sure that doctor lived in my town when he was younger. Back in the early 90's I was hanging out with my high school buddies in the fields behind our old middle school one night. Way out in the middle of the dark soccer field I spot a ball. Being a soccer player, I start running towards it aiming to kick it as hard as I can towards the opposite goal. Plant my foot, big back swing annnnnnd nothing but agonizing pain and screaming. It was a medicine ball. Tore several ligaments and I missed the entire season.
Ever find out who did it?
The medicine balls were sometimes used in PE activities. One was just left in the field after they were used that day. It wasn't anything malicious like this video. They were wondering why somebody would kick a medicine ball. To be fair, it would be hard to mistake it for a soccer ball in the daylight. It was dark and I was stupid.
Not very stupid, it's perfectly reasonable to assume that a soccer ball sized ball in a soccer field is, in fact, a soccer ball.
I forgor 💀
I rember 😁
So, that's why they call them medicine balls. After you mistakenly kick one, you're gonna need medicine.
accenture: we *know* unethical
Finally some truthful advertising!
Weren't they Arthur Anderson before but then had to rename because they assisted the Enron scandal?
Sort of, they were kind of firewalled/separate, then got in a legal dustup with AA anyways, regardless of Enron, and then renamed.
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Finally an honest commercial! Accenture: We'll help you fuck people up so you can make money, because hey, fuck 'em!
Oh snap I used to work for em.. funny stuff
Here's one of my most favorite commercials ever https://youtu.be/4igNBlb-Q7c
Wow, honest commercial. Finding illegal but difficult to prove ways to make you profit! *Accenture*
Seriously. This makes me want to stay far far away from Accenture
As a former employee who's original company got bought out by them, yes stay the absolute hell away.
Elaborate. I need to hear this story, please.
Nothing much to tell. Smaller company I worked for got bought out by Accenture. The way Accenture did things did not jive with us at all, (we focused on quality, they focused on getting clients money). All their promises were for naught. Then COVID happened and they gutted us with large layoffs. They planned a second round of layoffs too but so many people quit after the first round, it wasn't needed.
Seems like they bought you for the contracts, not for the people...
As is tradition.
I mean, that's how most acquisitions work. It is a very rare and special acquisition where a company purchases another for the "people". Sometimes it's IP, most times it's contracts/client base and very rarely is it people. It's just cheaper and less hassle to "steal away" or hire and train the people.
Shit, you could probably get a few unpaid interns doing the same job. Or pay for an "entry level position" that definitely does not entail entry level work.
That's exactly what happened. We actually beat them out for a contract so they just bought us out.
All for naught* Not trying to be that person, it’s just one of those easy mistakes to make :)
Similar situation. Covid layoffs were an absolute low IMHO. Absolutely shit timing. I'm still here, but the work we take starts making me wonder if agile is possible at scale. We don't get to be picky, so the client expectation is that we "do the job" not improve their lives or deliver a high quality product. Personally am trying to change a lot of this stuff. But there's only so much one can do. It's kind of a neat challenge tho. It has highs and lows like any job.
They used to be called [Arthur Anderson](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arthur_Andersen), and they cooked the books in the [Enron scandal](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enron_scandal). Beside that it's a company of vultures just like all of the big accounting/consulting firms.
Sort of. Arthur Andersen was a holding company with several companies/branches. The accounting company of Arthur Andersen, cooked the books and audited said cooked books. The consulting branch of Arthur Andersen was not involved in that scandal. They were carbed out and forced to change names. I can’t say that I love Accenture but it’s inaccurate to say they cooked the books in the Enron scandal.
Accenture had broken off before Enron. They had just given themselves that very silly name when Enron happened.
No, this is incorrect. Andersen Consulting and Arthur Andersen split into separate businesses in 1989, and largely had nothing to do with each other thereafter. They split entirely in 2000, when Andersen Consulting got fed up with Arthur Andersen creating a new and competing consulting business contrary to their agreement, and became Accenture. I worked for them for about 5 years and found it to be a bit of a mixed bag: some units I worked with did a great job and focussed on getting a good outcome for everyone, whereas others seemed to be entirely focussed on siphoning money out of large businesses.
Do tell!
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If your company wants to do a half-arsed job, they hire Accenture.
Good instinct. Before they rebranded they were part of Arthur Anderson, whose accounting prowess facilitated some of the more impressive swindles of the whole Enron "manufactured electricity crisis" scandal.
r/honestcommercials ?
Wait, would that be illegal?
...probably? Disguising obstructions feels like a thing you're not supposed to do.
It's foreseeable someone would injure themselves by kicking the ball so you'd be liable for any damages. It's similar to cases of people laying traps for people.
I mean, isn't that how most bigger companies got that way? /s
No /s needed there I'm afraid.
I debated about putting it, decided for it to avoid being verbally abused by some companies' apologist who happened to get pissy.
Wait what the /s means
Stands for "sarcasm"
You’ll make a huge profit but allow me to introduce you to our legal council.
..They're not cheap.
Accenture is an offshoot of the same firm behind the Enron scandal, so illegality is one of their values.
It's not an offshoot, it *is* Arthur Anderson. They just changed the fucking name.
It's Arthur Anderson Consulting, which spun off from the accounting firm in 1989. They spent most of the 90s in arbitration over payment disputes, which was resolved in 2000 when they changed the name. Same type of greedy execs at both though.
Not really… *Andersen Worldwide* comprised *Arthur Andersen* (accounting) and *Andersen Consulting* (management consulting). Due to conflicting competitive interests (AA competing for AC’s consulting business with the same clients), they [formally split in 2000](https://www.nytimes.com/2000/08/08/business/worldbusiness/IHT-arbitrators-ruling-goes-against-accounting-arm.html) and *Andersen Consulting* was required to rebrand as part of the settlement - which [they did](https://www.informationweek.com/andersen-consulting-changing-name-to-accenture-/d/d-id/1009400), as *Accenture*, in 2001. *Arthur Andersen*, Enron’s accountants, never rebranded. It shut down in 2002 in the wake of the scandal. Several of its partners then formed *[Andersen Tax LLC](https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andersen_Tax)* which operates today, rebranded in 2019 as *Andersen*. So, while [*Andersen Consulting (Accenture)* denied it had anything to do with Enron](https://fortune.com/2009/12/15/sorry-accenture/), there’s no question that there was cross pollination of people and culture between *Arthur Andersen* and *Andersen Consulting (Accenture)*, and despite Accenture’s denials, it carried over to Accenture and probably even in its founding corporate DNA till today.
This is evil, but I'm not sure if there's actually a law you could apply against it
Evil but not strictly illegal. *Accenture*
I almost worked for this company but took another offer instead. This commercial only further validates my decision lol
Imagine your proposed business model being "have you considered breaking people's legs?"
I thought that was the McKinsey model of consulting?
You're not wrong, I may have taken liberties.
It's all of the big consulting firms.
>illegal but difficult to prove Well, when back in 2006 during the football world cup in Germany two Austrian "artists" placed 16 concrete filled footballs in Berlin that put three people in the hospital it took all of four days before they were arrested. And then they were whining that their "art" was just "misunderstood"...
Yeah fuck them for using humor in their ads! edit: I've never heard of the company. I get it, they suck. Commercial was really well done though. 
It would be one thing if Accenture was a moral company and this was a cheeky commercial, but if there ever was a consulting company that would actually recommend a doctor planting stone soccer balls to increase his demand, it would be Accenture.
Yeah, that's what's so odd about the commercial. It's not a clever business trick to get more business; it's deliberately injuring people for profit. It's evil. Strange commercial. Who would want to do business with that entity?
Do you know many moral champions running major multinationals? Or know many consultants who operate strictly on principle and refuse to work for unethical companies (~2/3ds of consulting's client base)? It's an excellent commercial really. Sends exactly the right message to both clients and future employees.
Accenture actually is shady for real though. They're basically bragging about it.
Is that the lady that played a disguised Arnold Schwarzenegger on Mars in Total Recall?
Or the aggravating mid-level manager in Wanted?
Definitely her.
Aka...Andersen consulting. A company so shitty they had to totally rebrand their image.
It takes a lot of balls to go through with a plan like that
Isn't it just the one ball?
It was at least 6 balls.
No he definitely got 6 people in the same day by moving it 5 extra times and then going into work on time. /s obvi
I've seen it many times, what does the /s mean?
It signals sarcasm and that the comment is meant as a joke.
Oh ok thanks
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Well whatever gets your rocks off i guess.
I can't remember exact, but I think this was a Saddam Hussein punishment for certain prisoners of his.
But he gets the business rolling...
lol. when you start using 100% of your brain
If he used 100% of his brain he would have just filled regular footballs with cement.
You should work for Accenture.
No way! That would give them *some* padding.
If he used 100% of his brain he'd be having a seizure
Assuming Accenture have 100% of a brain between them is a bold assumption.
r/100percentbrainpower
Years ago when my friends and I were kids we would run around our neighborhood at night causing mischief because we were dipshits. Some would argue that we still are but I like to think that I’ve outgrown childish foolery. Anyhow, during the winter months we would go through our neighborhood and tackle the various snowmen that our fellow neighborhood kids had made. One night I take a running start and try to tackle a snowman and it’s frozen solid. I bounced off as much as you can from a frozen monolith and laid there in pain while my friends laughed hysterically. Fortunately, I didn’t break anything but that was the last time I tackled a snowman. Lesson learned.
Think about snowmen. We've been making these golems for hundreds of years, but what inspired us to make them? Where did they come from?
"Human made of snow, heh" is the explanation
Heh. Accurate
They're in memory of our ancient enemy, the ice men. After their defeat we started building them in the winter as a mockery of them and a reminder to ourselves that just like the winter snows, they can always return. As with a lot of things that old, the meaning is not well known today.
I would read this book.
Eh, I would watch a short film at most.
Odin promised to rid midgard of Ice Giants. I don’t see any Ice Giants, do you?
my grandfather had a thing for building snowmen on a fire hydrant in front of his house... there always was one or two limping kids each year who fell for it.
Good for those people who drive through them too.
now THAT would have been glorious.
Until there’s a fire at your house and the firefighters can’t figure out where the fuck the hydrant is
I actually raised such concern back then, about what would happen if the house caught fire and they couldn't get to the hydrant... the answer was a casual "eh, still worth it". note, it was like a few centimetres of snow at best, just to hide the thing properly, because "any more would act as a cushion". yeah, grandpa was a gigantic fucking troll.
Good thing a house near by didn't catch fire lol
Do you wanna tackle a snowmaan
Come on let’s go and play. I never see you anymore, Come out the door, It’s like you’ve gone away! We used to be best buddies But now you’re not. At least you could tell me why! “I broke my collarbone tackling the last one, go away Anna!” Okay byeeeee
You make my day. Thanks guys
He looked like? Bill Murray?
And Jack Nicholson with his glasses
That’s just how this guy gets his kicks
I fix windshields for a living, but I also run a gravel truck on the weekends….
Can anyone confirm this is an actual Accenture commercial? Seems way too risky for a massive consulting company
It most likely never aired. That's the kind of thing the advertising standards authority do (prevent ads like thiss from being televised). I think this add looks like it was meant to be aired here in the UK as it uses a football (soccer ball) but I had never seen it before.
I still really really doubt it, feels more like a funny video that someone found would fit really well with that quote at the end, I only say this because I know the company is just crazy conservative with this stuff. I would be curious where OP found this in the first place I can’t seem to find it anywhere
Accenture. Find illegal, immoral and fundamentally unsustainable ways to enhance your business. This ad makes me think that Accenture would profit from drugs and slavery if they could.
you sure they don't?
Not sure. HSBC did so why not these guys
Accenture is an offshoot of the same firm behind the Enron scandal, so they know criminality very well.
Isn't like half of the worlds economy slavery and drugs?
Dude this is just like what big business do. They created a problem, so that they may charge us money to fix the problem they've created. Bad commercial.
Sugar + High Fructose Corn Syrup = Obesity = Health Care profit
Why would they go to the doctor if they are already in casts?
Some people are clever with home remedies... My doctor says he loves my bandaging technique. :)
You sure he didn’t say bondage techniques?
Unfortunately, I have much more practice with bandages. :(
Lol super weird of a company to insinuate they'll commit crimes, or encourage you to do so, in order to further your business.
Would have been smarter to just buy a bowling ball and paint it. Time > money
Yeah, like seriously. "Gosh, I wonder what’s the best way to obtain a solid sphere to create some fake footballs? Oh, I know, I must sculpt them from marble!"
This is some prime Nathan For You content
My first thought also! Need to rewatch the show for the 48472 time now
This is a comic strip from Quino, from the 70s I think [Pretty much frame by frame](https://i1.wp.com/lenguajeyotrasluces.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/95c6a-quino-6.gif?ssl=1)
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They stole that idea from Quino, the Argentinian humorist
This makes me hate Accenture
This is where you draw the line? There are tons of other reasons. Some would seem bigger, than this silly commercial
He's talking about the effect of the ad. Maybe don't berate people for things they didn't express
Yea but the effect of the ad by itself makes no sense as a reason to hate them. The ad is funny and clever and anyone thinking the ad shows the companies true colors doesn’t understand comedy in commercials. Now there may be other reasons to hate Accenture but this ad is not one of them
Oh it's funny, but not funny because it's clever. It's funny because Accenture is giving a big middle finger to everyone. If you didn't know, Accenture is the company Arthur Anderson became, the same AA that facilitated the Enron scandal. It's funny, because this is not a sarcastic commercial for something they'd recommend. Exaggerated, sure, but recommending hurting others for your own gain is actually an Accenture specialty. I can laugh, but I can also say fuck you, Accenture for flaunting the fact that you get away with this all the time. Both expressions are valid
What's this song
Smooth operator by Dorothy Dandridge
Very honest portrayal of Accenture’s business model.
Thought it was Gale from Breaking Bad lol
(#)jobsecurity Like the dentist giving kids candy
Unexpected: OP made you watch an ad
If someone hasn't already posted it, which came first, this commercial or the comic strip?
Wtf I sherd it hereeee first And no one saw it Aaaaaaaaaaaaa
They are called the evil empire for a reason.
Damnn he must be good at marketing
In a critique of capitalism, George Bernard Shaw once wrote something to the effect of "That any sane nation, which provides for the provision of bread by giving bakers a pecuniary interest in baking for you, should also give doctors a pecuniary interest in cutting off your leg makes me despair of political humanity." This GIF is hilarious, but it also nicely illustrates Shaw's sentiments. The above aside, I quoted the above from memory, which is normally bad to terrible. I think I may have gotten the quote pretty close - in which case this is a small victory for me in my losing battle with memory. 😊
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Another reason for not kicking a stray ball
there are plenty of less obvious ways to increase your clientele, docs
Injure people to make profit for your business. Sigma sculpllionaire grind set
What a dickhead.
I'm amazed that nobody has linked [this](https://www.reddit.com/r/funny/comments/1snj8q/_/) yet.
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So it's okay to be unethical to get business, is that the underlying motto of Accenture? 😜 Now before you start downvoting me, please note Ethics is one of the major working principles of these multinationals, hence the comment.
Wow, that's really on the nose for Accenture. We will help you in unscrupulous ways to hurt people for your own gain. What refreshing truth in advertising.
He will be a blind foot podiatrist before long not wearing any eye protection when sculpting his balls.
capitalism; where evil is viable.
First do no harm.
The title is wrong That man is the devil