Drunk employees and poor results – a bad week for RIM
The picture for RIM got a lot bleaker this week after the company released dismal sales figures, and two employees were fined for having too much fun on a transatlantic flight.
To be exact, they’ll be booking a $485-million charge before tax on the tablet boondoggle.
The PlayBook originally went on sale for nearly as much as the iPad ($500), but this holiday season the price dived to $199 as the company offered steep discounts for the so-far unsuccessful device.
And then there was the commercial flight diversion...
Two Research in Motion employees were slapped with a hefty $71,757 fine for shenanigans they got up to on an Air Canada flight from Toronto to Beijing.
The employees’ drunken rowdiness forced the jet to be diverted to Vancouver – and passengers on the flight had to be put up in hotels for the night until the flight resumed – 18 hours later.
According to one passenger on the plane, the two workers got into a fight with flight attendants. The entire crew reportedly had to subdue the RIM workers, before the pair were handcuffed to seats on the jet.
Do you think we're being too hard on the Waterloo, Ont. tech company?
- Maurice Cacho, MSN Tech & Gadgets
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Posted by: Louis Landon | Dec 4, 2011 10:12:17 PM
Never ever send an employee to do the air delivery that drink. My, that is a huge sale from $500 to $100. And now, they're facing a whopping $485 million charge.
Posted by: Matt | Dec 8, 2011 10:17:43 PM
Everyone has known they were bound to Corel themselves.
Posted by: Rspargalo | Dec 11, 2011 7:58:48 PM
It is my understanding that these two men had been dismissed from RIM!!!!!
How can the press make such a big deal out of a couple of Drunks blowing off steam.
I woud worry more about the IDIOT press that want to ruin another Canadian successful company.
Posted by: Josh Franz | Dec 18, 2011 10:36:50 PM
They were just trying to be like the android programmers CyanogenMOD 7, they state "Ballmer Peak -- Optimal coding ability takes place between a BAC of .129 and .138."
All kidding aside, Rough week for RIM, It was a long fall from the top, but thats what happens when you get complacent, and let everyone pass you up.
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