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Probably neither, "don't do bribes" training is standard onboarding procedure at any Fortune 500 company. Just ironic timing from OPs POV

ein0p 2y ago
Not just onboarding. Most, if not all, large companies waste at least an hour of their employees time on this per year, while themselves bribing politicians in DC.
- VyseofArcadia 2y ago
  It was, in fact, a story arc in an at the time recent-ish season of SBC[0]. [0] Microsoft's yearly training that is done in the form of a TV drama about MS employees facing ethical dilemmas
- Arrath 2y ago
  An hour? My annual training is typically about 6 hours of drudgery, and often about 2/3rds repeat courses from years previous. Great fun.
  - NordSteve 2y ago
    That's just the ethics training, depending on your role there's much more than that.
tialaramex 2y ago
But this is exactly why it's standard procedure. I worked for a huge Credit Reference Agency and it was very obvious that this is ass covering. Sarah and Bob in the New York Office of Huge Corp must take the training so that the CEO can swear all his employees know not to bribe people. In the event that Manuel, who is given $100 000 per week of company money to bribe the locals in Melonistan so that they don't interfere with Huge Corp's operations is actually brought before the government and forced to spill the beans the CEO will insist they had no idea and some Huge Corp minion gets sacrificed. Manuel will be replaced, Melonistan will be assured quietly that his replacement will provide make up money ASAP. In Arms this is even worse, because there it's secretly government policy to bribe people, even though it's also illegal. So then sometimes even if you can prove there was a crime, the government will say "We'll take that evidence thank you very much" and poof, the crime disappears, if you make too much fuss you'll be made to disappear too.

ein0p 2y ago

Not just onboarding. Most, if not all, large companies waste at least an hour of their employees time on this per year, while themselves bribing politicians in DC.

VyseofArcadia 2y ago
It was, in fact, a story arc in an at the time recent-ish season of SBC[0]. [0] Microsoft's yearly training that is done in the form of a TV drama about MS employees facing ethical dilemmas
Arrath 2y ago
An hour? My annual training is typically about 6 hours of drudgery, and often about 2/3rds repeat courses from years previous. Great fun.
- NordSteve 2y ago
  That's just the ethics training, depending on your role there's much more than that.

tialaramex 2y ago

But this is exactly why it's standard procedure. I worked for a huge Credit Reference Agency and it was very obvious that this is ass covering. Sarah and Bob in the New York Office of Huge Corp must take the training so that the CEO can swear all his employees know not to bribe people. In the event that Manuel, who is given $100 000 per week of company money to bribe the locals in Melonistan so that they don't interfere with Huge Corp's operations is actually brought before the government and forced to spill the beans the CEO will insist they had no idea and some Huge Corp minion gets sacrificed. Manuel will be replaced, Melonistan will be assured quietly that his replacement will provide make up money ASAP. In Arms this is even worse, because there it's secretly government policy to bribe people, even though it's also illegal. So then sometimes even if you can prove there was a crime, the government will say "We'll take that evidence thank you very much" and poof, the crime disappears, if you make too much fuss you'll be made to disappear too.