This was posted on SAPs board here on thelayoff but it totally applies to us as well:
We work for a criminal enterprise full of self-righteous, borderline re--rded psychopaths.
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Everyone I know in the management has lost their minds.
HR is never your friend. They get their bonuses based on overall cost reduction :smile:
Employee reviews should also be mandatory and enforced by HR.
Also, all interviews should be recorded, mandatory.
As for the original post. I would have said sociopaths or narcissistic sociopaths, at least for Oracle.
And that gets to the actual point. It’s just pure laziness among the good management that do nothing to prevent disaster from coming.
Seems like companies should develop and enforce standards and a process for hiring management to make sure that managers are competent and NOT sc-mbags. Perhaps a wider interview process would help, with managers being interviewed by their employee peons-to-be. The interview results should be reviewed by a third party to ensure that interview feedback is not being ignored by VPs and others who might make a decision based on self-interest. It would take actual work of course to do that. But, the company would be safer legally with a specific process like that. Otherwise the company is just asking for it.
@k1 FFT
Law of nature: sc-mbags will hire more sc-mbags who will hire more sc-m bags.
Then the swamp becomes impossible to clean up,
Law of nature. Sc-m rises to the top. It sticks to other sc-m making larger clumps of sc-m. Hard to get rid of once it’s taken over.
I remember a quote from Hunter Thompson from awhile back: "The TV business is uglier than most things. It is normally perceived as some kind of cruel and shallow money trench through the heart of the journalism industry, a long plastic hallway where thieves and pi-ps run free and good men die like dogs, for no good reason."
Internal cultures of SAP and Oracle are very different. SAP has a debt to earnings ratio of about 20%, while Oracle's is in the neighborhood of 500%. That tells you a lot about how different the 2 companies are in their approach to business. I'd also point out SAP has a 40% match on their stock purchase plan. How is Oracle's?
Yep