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The made up story sound similar to Hertz losing 32 million while hiring Accenture to do internal API rewrite in 2 years. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/

The made up story sound similar to Hertz losing 32 million while hiring Accenture to do internal API rewrite in 2 years. https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_lawsuit/ https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/04/23/hertz_accenture_law...

huffmsa 7y ago
Hertz is what I've landed on. -- Female CEO -- 100+ years old -- rentals -- Has quietly bought up it's competition Only thing which doesn't line up is employee numbers. And they had Accenture do Angular app development.
- msoad 7y ago
  How does gender of the CEO matter here? [edit] now I understood. sorry
  - huffmsa 7y ago
    Because we're trying to figure out which company the author is alluding to. And the author stipulated female CEO. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and not "zomg tech sexism!!1!", Sigmund.
  - rerx 7y ago
    I guess because of this quote FTA: > And what happens when the company gets a new CEO? What if she decides to break up the company again?
    - wizzairflyer 7y ago
      Isn't the "she" here refering to a potential new CEO? I assumed it was akin to the style of academic writing where you use she instead of he to refer to a person whose gender is unknown in order to fight gender stereotype or something similar (example: "the developer, when she sees fit, can[...]")
      - karrotwaltz 7y ago
        Is this really a style though? I always assumed it was due to writers being non-native english speakers, and applying their primary language's noun gendering to english (In my case, in French all nouns are gendered)
        aeorgnoieang 7y ago
        Yes, it's really a 'style'. Some people switch between feminine and masculine pronouns too.
        deleted 7y ago
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- hluska 7y ago
  I was thinking of Hertz, but the corporate history doesn’t align. The post said the company had about 100 years of history, but Hertz was founded in 1958.
  - RandallBrown 7y ago
    Rent-A-Car Inc, which eventually became Hertz, was founded in 1918.
- wastedhours 7y ago
  They are listed as a MuleSoft customer too: https://www.mulesoft.com/ https://www.mulesoft.com/
  - whatshisface 7y ago
    Wow, I thought that MuleSoft was a made-up anonymized name like SuperRentalCorp...
    - wastedhours 7y ago
      They used to trade on the NYSE as MULE before Salesforce bought them for a few 'bill. Think it was a legit reference to "donkey work".

huffmsa 7y ago

Hertz is what I've landed on. -- Female CEO -- 100+ years old -- rentals -- Has quietly bought up it's competition Only thing which doesn't line up is employee numbers. And they had Accenture do Angular app development.

msoad 7y ago
How does gender of the CEO matter here? [edit] now I understood. sorry
- huffmsa 7y ago
  Because we're trying to figure out which company the author is alluding to. And the author stipulated female CEO. Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar and not "zomg tech sexism!!1!", Sigmund.
- rerx 7y ago
  I guess because of this quote FTA: > And what happens when the company gets a new CEO? What if she decides to break up the company again?
  - wizzairflyer 7y ago
    Isn't the "she" here refering to a potential new CEO? I assumed it was akin to the style of academic writing where you use she instead of he to refer to a person whose gender is unknown in order to fight gender stereotype or something similar (example: "the developer, when she sees fit, can[...]")
    - karrotwaltz 7y ago
      Is this really a style though? I always assumed it was due to writers being non-native english speakers, and applying their primary language's noun gendering to english (In my case, in French all nouns are gendered)
      - aeorgnoieang 7y ago
        Yes, it's really a 'style'. Some people switch between feminine and masculine pronouns too.
      - deleted 7y ago
        [deleted]
hluska 7y ago
I was thinking of Hertz, but the corporate history doesn’t align. The post said the company had about 100 years of history, but Hertz was founded in 1958.
- RandallBrown 7y ago
  Rent-A-Car Inc, which eventually became Hertz, was founded in 1918.
wastedhours 7y ago
They are listed as a MuleSoft customer too: https://www.mulesoft.com/ https://www.mulesoft.com/
- whatshisface 7y ago
  Wow, I thought that MuleSoft was a made-up anonymized name like SuperRentalCorp...
  - wastedhours 7y ago
    They used to trade on the NYSE as MULE before Salesforce bought them for a few 'bill. Think it was a legit reference to "donkey work".