05-26-2016, 05:11 PM
(05-26-2016, 02:22 PM)Bad Dog Wrote:We are the greatest thing that ever happened to our livestock -- excuse me, our employees.Quote:The company provides networking, broadband, and IT support for businesses that are not large enough to have an enterprise IT department, or those who do not wish to have an IT department (to have someone to fire).
The amazing thing is that it not an overseas firm.
It started in Louisiana, and carries on those grand old traditional values.
They would probably get their 'help" this way if they could still get away with it:
Quote:The floors are vacuumed every four hours.
The trash cans are emptied every four hours.
Someone has a fetish about cleanliness.
Quote:Office supplies must be paid for in your own blood (no kleenex for weeks, etc).
And not for your comfort!
Quote:Dog and pony shows for clients are led through our war room, so no IT person can wear tennis shoes, etc. No petting of the dogs or ponies is allowed. No personal items of any kind are allowed in cubicles.
No laxity toward even the most benign of temptations.
Quote:The CEO is an early Boom salesman. Top line revenue is valued.
Sell it, but keep costs low!
Quote:Anyone fired is immediately shamed by having an email sent to all employees, with photo, stating said person is no longer with the company, and is not allowed in the building.
Nothing but fear.
Quote:Anybody getting a picture of how corporate thinks?
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