This leads me to the Yes Men. Some folks who have managed to present themselves a corporate types representing companies at some presentation or another, only to take it to absolute extremes to point out the inherent absurdity of the system.
An example:
At the International Payments Conference on April 28, 2005 'Dow representative' Erastus Hamm unveiled Acceptable Risk, the Acceptable Risk Calculator, and the Acceptable Risk mascot — a life-sized golden skeleton named Gilda — to an audience of about 70 banking professionals. (Yes Men at Wikipedia)
There's more videos and fun stuff at their website.
The Yes Men movie (about an hour and a half long).
If you don't have time for that right now, here's a six minute video of "Jude Finisterra of Dow Chemical" on BBC accepting responsibility for the Bhopal disaster.
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I love these guys, and they're so good at what they do that a friend of mine who's as anti-corporatist, smart, and well-informed as one could reasonably hope for completely believed (for a short time) that the Survival Ball was a real Halliburton product.
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