Let me try to be as obscure about this as possible.
One of the owners of The Sporting Company won a business award on Friday. He won a Business Guy Of The Year type thingy from a professional association.
First of all, he couldn't be bothered to show up to accept the award, so one of the other owners went. The other guy not only accepted the award, he walked through the building thanking all the employees & telling them the award is really for them because they're worked so hard. He also e-mailed this sentiment to make certain everyone heard it. Now THAT's appropriate behaviour - and this guy wasn't even the guy who won.
The guy who won? Had a major injury last November and was recuperating in Hawaii for three months. He was in the rehab hospital for three months and at home learning to move again until this past September *coughkarmacough*, went on a two week cruise and is currently in BC. So he was gone from the business for more than nine months of 2009.
We employees were initially pleased with the award, then we thought about it for the amount of time it took you to read this post.