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I had a grand-boss who proposed buying an add-on to our PDM system. I explained how we already threw away $15 MILLION on buying ALL the licenses for a previous
by TheRealDunkirk 5y ago
I had a grand-boss who proposed buying an add-on to our PDM system. I explained how we already threw away $15 MILLION on buying ALL the licenses for a previous PDM system up front, only to scrap it when our company got taken over (and pillaged and destroyed, but that's a story for another day). I BEGGED him not to spend the money until we proved that we could actually, you know, integrate the add-on, and USE it successfully. No, of course, we spent all the money up front. And THEN found out that we couldn't use it. And then I heard he got a big kickback from the company, and I because a little less naive, and a lot more jaded.
- Chris2048 5y ago> then I heard he got a big kickback from the company sounds like a good case for whistleblowing
- krageon 5y agoDon't whistleblow unless you can work in an entirely different industry where nobody knows you (and nobody reads the news). Or of course you can do so entirely anonymously.
- TheRealDunkirk 5y agoI had already learned my lesson. My company had instituted an ethics hotline a few years before. Someone I knew actually had the guts to point out a large-scale graft, and... nothing was done about it. So I didn't bother.
- Chris2048 5y agoI didn't mean some internal thing, doesn't the SEC give % rewards to whistleblowers?