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Well I've had a few, but one stands out. After reading the above, it's a bit lame but here goes....
I went to an interview with a S/W and H/W company somewhere in the Midlands. The main interview goes reasonably well, and at the end they hand me a sheet of A4 paper.
On the paper is a list of TLA's, and the final task was to say what each one stands for.
After about 15 of them, they started correcting me here and there, "yes but in our company it means 'Total Concept Paragigm'" or whatever.
After almost an hour and and into the third column my mind started exploding, and when I got to the end I was spent.
I can recommend this as a form of torture! Probably it should be banned by the ICC.
I didn't get the job. Phew!
I had a client who stiffed me for about £1200 while I was working away overseas, doing more than 37.5 hours a week because it was in Taiwan, and on a critical project.
Unknown to me there had been a max hours edict from upper manglement for cost cutting.
My middle manager didn't back me up up on my invoices, and they didn't even pay the 37.5 hours while they disputed.
After several months of reminders I asked them to at least pay the 37.5, and the rest remained in dispute.
5 years later it was apparent I wasn't getting another contract with them, so I took them to small claims for statutory interest. I got awarded £1500. By that time, Motorola had bought them, so had to pay, which was an added bonus! :-)
If they are going to "rake over the coals" as intimated by this latest article, and revisit previous compensation settled "in full and final settlement" because some of the evidential inputs to the decision making/tribunals/ombudsman were false, perhaps they should also consider funding the revised settlements, at least in part, from recovered bonuses paid out to the board over the same timeframe?
Because it seems to me that these bonuses were awarded based on PO profitability, which would have been less if the proper settlements had been made at the correct time, based on the actual facts, not something made up.
It's all going a bit nuclear!
I've been following the story for ~10 years.
I see comments above such as "But the depressing factor in all this (which has been covered by computer weekly, Private Eye and this esteemed publication over the past TEN YEARS) is the way its taken a prime time TV drama to finally force those in charge to get off their collective arses and behave like they are in charge."
NOTE THIS: once the furore about the TV programme has died down, Sunak and the Govt will close ranks again, and we will hear little about this again.
In my experience, Japanese business people have a certain sense of integrity, probably higher than any other nationality I've dealt with.
So - they SHOULD have exposed ICL's shortcomings once it became known internally.
To not do so, is a good reason to fall on your sword.
The (internal PO) auditors were probably happy with the change in fraud levels, thinking that the IT system was detecting fraud previously hidden in the paper system.
However, they didn't do their jobs properly, in forensically examining them to prove Horizon was not to blame.
Exactly, GPS I've seen quoted to 10cm accuracy 99.99% of the time.
So the other 0.01% of the time, it propels me/you into the other lane?
On a 10 mile drive, that's once per journey, probably by someone I'm passing.
There is still a long way to go. We need 6*9's availability.