European Patent Office Kontrovers TV Coverage (English Version)
Dr. Roy Schestowitz
2016-03-13 18:23:06 UTC
Modified: 2016-03-13 18:50:53 UTC
One man's story gets told (televised even) so that others won't have to go through what he did (implicating what EPO staff memorably calls 'Gestapo' [1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7])
Summary: A television program which demonstrates the correlation between aggressive EPO management and staff suicides preserved as a cautionary tale
There are two main themes/ways in which EPO management tries to justify its abuses and iron-fisted governance approach (suicides unsurprisingly grew tenfold); one is to say about the employees that they're "well paid" (or something along those lines, as it monetary compensation exempts them from human rights) and the other is all about "results" (which is a basically a lie). ⬆
There's a limit to how much or how long a company can fake its performance and its potential [...] Early this morning a few insiders ("traders") cashed in on their "pump-n-dump"
Workers can conveniently lie or deny it to themselves, but waves of PIPs ("silent layoffs") will sweep over more and more units or teams as the company runs out of money to play with