What secret can you share now your NDA has expired? – 17 shocking workplace revelations
10.
‘I’m a former copy-editor, I caught a case of egregious plagiarism by a very well respected author. Clever enough to avoid the software that can be used, unfortunately for him I noticed the syntax shift and went full Poirot investigation mode. I got paid a big bonus lump sum of money and my wage was immediately increased by 50 percent forever for averting what could have been catastrophic for the reputation of the Publishing House and financially damaging if the other author had ever sued them. I noticed it the same week it was due to be sent to print. Plagiarism is far more common than people realise and it can, in the worst case scenario, bankrupt a Publishing House. The author in question who stole another’s work was “blacklisted” for life when I dug out the original source and stopped the book going to print (ever) for this very reason.’
-Loose_Armadillo_3032
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‘A school in London had to pay me £35,000 compensation after telling me I was taking to long to recover from cancer treatment and that I should leave my position.
‘They initially offered my £5,000. Even my solicitor said I should probably accept when we got to an offer of £15,000. But I was angry and very stubborn. Lol.’
-TNBCisABitch
12.
‘The Hot Java web browser from Sun Microsystems (1997) was not written entirely in Java, despite the company’s claims.
‘They used system calls to functions written in C to execute capabilities impossible in Java (most notably, printing).
‘I do worry that this revelation could shake the industry’s faith in Sun Microsystems, but the truth must be told.’
-notenoughnamespace
13.
‘We can see you naked in your selfie cam at Tesla. Stop fucking with self driving on’
-coyotegang
14.
‘Activision, after merging with Blizzard in 2008, starting cooking the books like crazy to avoid paying taxes.
‘Dutch/Irish sandwich with 3 employees in NL, underreporting profits,… They got caught and had to pay a 9 figure fine in France, as well as having to give each employee a decade worth of profit sharing (as profits were underreported) to then, 2 years later, fire everyone. Still during the Covid aftermath, after a year of record profits, due to “economic reasons”.
‘All while having more money than they could spend.’
-Gandzilla
15.
‘Remember back in the day, when people used to say if you wanted the best search results for porn, you needed to use Bing?
‘It’s because Bing had a team of people dedicated to doing nothing but evaluating porn related search results.’
-AlhazraeIIc
16.
‘The small company I worked for called itself “AI powered” for years and received hundreds of thousands of dollars worth of government grants for it despite doing literally nothing related to AI.’
-ExtentAggravating733
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‘Ericsson fucked up building Google fiber so bad in San Jose California so bad that they spent nearly a billion before Google pulled the plug because the project lead got caught doing coke at a corporate event. Google issued a press release saying AT&T was the issue’
-VariousDingDongNames
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