• My Name (unregistered) in reply to Dave
    Dave:
    Nagesh:
    One day I watch TV Serial called "IT CROWD". CEO of Renahm Industry borrow 20 quid note from IT Staff. He never return it.

    Sidenote: I thought currency of UK is pound. What's this quid business? Why don't you call it a buck like rest of the world?

    By 'the rest of the world' you mean america. Stereotype much?

    You new? Nothing but stereotypes on this page.

    Of course, as always, there are /(a)|(very)/ few exceptions.

  • DEY TUK UR JERBS (unregistered) in reply to Nagesh
    Nagesh:
    Are you dumb or what? All American and British shows available if you want to watch in India. India no longer just snakes and elephants, in case you have not followed up after British left the country.

    Actually, given the amount of H1-B Visa Fraud that comes from India and the number of falsified resumes, I would say it still is full of snakes, at least.

    Captcha: Uxor. Ultimate Haxxor?

  • ro (unregistered) in reply to Montoya

    Fuck that sounds like my old boss at a certain wireless carrier affectionately called 'the deathstar'. I was in the b2b division, so it was my job to handle really large corporate accounts and my boss very commonly showed up late to meetings I had scheduled with the sales team under me, often ignored or talked right over my valid points in a discussion, openly contradicted me in front of my sales team telling them to do something that was incorrect, and responding to critical client issues that required someone above my tier to approve -before- escalation.

    I was never happier when he laid me off a year ago. I shaked his had and said "Thank you for giving me this management experience. I only hope you can find someone that can perform better than I did." (in my head, I chuckled to myself since he wouldn't find someone better than me that would put up with his shit for the pay they offer.)

    Luckily, while I've been looking for a job, I have been collecting 80% of my salary from unemployment since I was able to prove that I was unfairly terminated through no fault of my own. (Everything my boss claimed I did/didn't do, I was able to prove was false through my obsessive record-keeping and organisation.)

    captcha: immitto - italian flattery.

  • harrywwc (unregistered) in reply to Jon
    Jon:
    If the CEO said he could do your job as a database programmer, tell him to code review the simplest SQL statement.

    SELECT TWENTY_DOLLARS FROM DEADBEAT_CEO;

    0 rows returned

    :)

  • biff (unregistered) in reply to Montoya

    Of course the old borrow twenty trick only works about once... after that, every body else makes a point of simply not having any cash available to lend....after all if this weren't such a cheap ass place to work....especially after the benefits started going away....

  • biff (unregistered) in reply to flyboyfred
    flyboyfred:
    GM is Right:
    GM:
    Its spelt "Ford".
    Did anyone else picture Calvin urinating on the Ford symbol?

    I think he was actually peeing vodka.

    maybe vodka, only slightly used

  • biff (unregistered) in reply to boog

    The real wtf is why he just didn't use the expense acct overide system to get his CEO executive loan paid back... with interest!

  • biff (unregistered) in reply to ObiWayneKenobi
    ObiWayneKenobi:
    Isn't this business as usual? Idiot who has a family name inherits company, lives lavishly while letting everything else go to shit?

    The only difference here is that he was caught in the end instead of laughing all the way to the bank with every employee of the company praising him and doing whatever they're asked because he's the CEO.

    And taking down all their 401K's full of company stock, ala Enron....

  • (cs) in reply to DEY TUK UR JERBS
    DEY TUK UR JERBS:
    Nagesh:
    Are you dumb or what? All American and British shows available if you want to watch in India. India no longer just snakes and elephants, in case you have not followed up after British left the country.

    Actually, given the amount of H1-B Visa Fraud that comes from India and the number of falsified resumes, I would say it still is full of snakes, at least.

    Captcha: Uxor. Ultimate Haxxor?

    H1-B is brain drain on the country. Some useless people we send abroad ONLY to get rid of them. The real smart ones work in night shift. :-)

  • trwtf (unregistered) in reply to hoodaticus
    hoodaticus:
    trwtf:
    hoodaticus:
    trwtf:
    Jay:
    Frankie:
    Right, the fountain from Tyco, but Kozlowski is not "Four".

    The key detail is the dynasty of bosses (2+ generations), the last of whom used the company as a feeding trough. Kozlowski worked his way up Tyco, and Adelphia was embezzled by its founder. Neither one fits.

    Looking more like TRWTF is that there is no "real" WTF here; it's a fake story.

    I'm not saying the story is true. I have no independent confirmation. But as a rebuttal, this is weak.

    Who says the company must be either Tyco or Adelphia? RE the "key detail": Are you honestly telling me that you don't believe there has ever been a company in the history of the world where an honest, hard-working person built a company, and then his children or grandchildren squandered it? I don't have any statistics, but I'd guess that that happens a lot.

    Didn't anybody tell you guys the stories are anonymised? They don't just change the names, they change a whole slew of details with the specific aim of making it impossible to figure out who the original story was about. If you think you know who it is you're almost certainly wrong, either that or the editor totally failed in his job of anonymising the story.
    It's the submitter's job to anonymize. The flourish is added for the same reason a chef marinates meat.
    Bullshit, it's the editor's job to anonymise and Alex has made that perfectly clear in the past. Obviously you haven't been here long enough to remember this article in which Alex states:

    Alex Papadimoulis:
    These days, submissions are sanitized with far more than just a few Office Space references: new language, different line of business, different system name, and so on.
    This was back in 2006. Anonymisation is a standard part of TDWTF experience, get used to it.
    Forgive me; my statement was based on common sense, and I see that that does not play here.

    It is your duty to anonymize if you are concerned about not having certain facts published. If they slip up and publish something you did not want them to, it is your fault, not theirs. Your head, not theirs, will be the one rolling.

    Common sense? Now you're just trolling, this is TDWTF FFS.

  • NotJon (unregistered) in reply to Jon

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  • (cs) in reply to frits
    The company was Adelphia Communications, right?

    Funny story about that: The speaker at my college graduation was John Rigas. He thus received an honorary doctorate in business from my school. Oops!

  • (cs) in reply to The Fifth
    The Fifth:
    Forth! e the CEO on day three?
    Nobody uses Forth these days; at least, nobody in his right mind. The only person I knew who did anything in Forth was so high on the autistic spectrum that you needed to keep an eye on your dosimeter when talking (for want of a better word) to him.

    Or did you mean 'fourth'? Don't tell me that the Americans have been removing the 'u' from that as well.

  • Sylver (unregistered) in reply to Frankie
    Frankie:
    usitas:
    Whoosh! Did you ever consider the fact, that... ...maybe the fake detail was... ... the fountain?
    WHOOSH! Comprehension fail on your part.

    A more intelligent reading of my post would show that I consider the fountain an extraneous flourish. The crucial detail is the family empire with a corrupt scion. If that can't be found, then the whole story is a fictional mashup.

    Yo Frankie,

    The company has only 200 employees. There are millions of companies of this size. Do you really think that just because 5 minutes of searching the net with potentially fake details doesn't return the story, it has to be fictionnal?

  • The Professor (unregistered)

    Any chance that Howard Thurstone, IV could have been the illegitimate love child of Thurston Howell the Third?

  • Mike (unregistered)

    “Are you kidding me!? I pay you how many hundreds of dollars a week, each and every week. Are you that cheap?”

    I would have replied, "Yeah, and you're the wealthy CEO that borrowed the $20 from me, who's the cheap one here??"

    ;-)

  • Brian (unregistered)

    OMG this is my boss. It all makes sense now. its sad.

  • Chickens Almighty (unregistered)

    "Their comradery came in handy, especially for the lavish executive retreats (complete with caviar and ice sculptures peeing vodka) that they’d have at the newly-purchased company resort."

    Do the ice sculptures come with Dora stickers too??

  • Elad (unregistered)

    If this is a true story, where is the link to a news site reporting his arrest? What's the name of the company?

  • CarryingColoradan (unregistered)

    Wow. This just leaves me sad that three generations built up a legacy and kept it going across a century, and then one fool wrecked it in less than a decade.

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