EPO "Cocaine Communication Manager" - Part X - People Are Leaving
Yesterday a very long EPO strike began. The media did not cover it. Today, a lot of EPO workers are still on strike.
"I really hope that you can move something," we got told by insiders.
Many of the insiders do recognise that they're governed by corrupt officials, set aside the financial issues and the cocaine use.
It's nearly April and each month the industrial actions at the EPO only intensify.
There are also people who decide to leave.
"I was happy to be at the EPO in the beginning, but since I realized it's all a big mafia," one reader said, "I prefer to be out of it."
It's hardly a secret (it's in the data) that many qualified members of staff leave; those still willing to put up with lower salaries and worse conditions tend to come from eastern Europe. That's not to say that eastern Europe lacks smart people; it's just that this says a lot about how unattractive an employer the EPO, which is a monopoly (it lacks competition), became. How can the EPO properly study patent applications? It measures "success" only in terms like number of monopolies granted, irrespective of the damage those monopolies will cause. █