Corporate IdiocyComedian Al Murray recounts a run-in with industrial-scale stupidity: "Car insurance company rang, without having sent me a renewal letter, asking for money. Made them answer security questions." In the same vein, tell us your stories about pointless paperwork and corporate quarter-wits
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Scaryduck LIKES EGG, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 12:13)
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One of the senior members of a company I used to work for was corrupt to say the leastThe company in question was pretty huge and as such had fingers in pretty much every pie going. They'd just managed to wangle a potentially lucrative military defence contract, which would also include supplying the over-stretched local police force with support.
One of this guy's colleagues was employed along similar lines and a great deal of animosity developed between them as to who would get overall control of the project.
In an attempt to secure his position, the guy in question secretly inserted some programming into his rival's product that would theoretically allow him to continue to act as he pleased; consorting with local criminal gangs, assisting in drug production and so on.
When his wrongdoing came to light he was convinced that he would get off scot-free, but due to a simple semantic error in the wording of his covert programming, the boss of the company was able to fire him, leading directly to him being shot to pieces and falling out of a top-floor window to his death.
(, Thu 23 Feb 2012, 14:12, 4 replies)
I'd buy that for a dollarGood work.
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