Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
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#2Source article: https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
Re: Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
#3Former Microsoftie here.
After all the business ethics training videos I had to sit through, I am infuriated by this.
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#4Former Microsoftie here. After all the business ethics training videos I had to sit through, I am infuriated by this.
Rules are for the little people.
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#5Fair play to this guy whoever he is. If only more people had his integrity.
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#6> "What is a shock: This time around, the SEC and DOJ have both declined to investigate Microsoft over the same types of bribes in the Middle East and Africa. They acknowledged my evidence (which I submitted three times) yet did not take up the case, claiming that the current pandemic has prevented them from gathering more evidence from abroad—even though I have already provided documentation that I believe shows Microsoft is in breach of the 2019 agreement and is still participating in corrupt business practices in direct violation of U.S. law."
I have no words for this one. I guess being a trillion dollar company comes with a lot of benefits.
Source: https://www.lioness.co/post/microsoft-is-using-illegal-bribe...
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#7I think almost with any common sense would recognize this. It happens a lot in the US as well and in academia, but most of all government services. People get kickbacks, Microsoft helps with marketing... so and so switched to Microsoft, here is what they have to say about how it helped the organization. Except, they never talked to the employees who would have told you how they hate it and it actually makes their jobs worse. People realize they are powerless and just leave or accept it as a normal part of business and the practice continues.
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#8Microsoft spokesperson: "how dare you single us out, obviously everyone is doing this"
Re: Microsoft is tied to hundreds of millions of dollars in foreign bribes
#9> "What is a shock: This time around, the SEC and DOJ have both declined to investigate Microsoft over the same types of bribes in the Middle East and Africa. They acknowledged my evidence (which I submitted three times) yet did not take up the case, claiming that the current pandemic has prevented them from gathering more evidence from abroad—even though I have already provided documentation that I believe shows Mic…
The same bribes/kickbacks are very big in government contracts. Not sure what the DoJ would do when they would up investigating themselves.
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#10My work involves a public sector organization in Brazil. In the last years there was a big push towards microsoft products at my workplace, to a point where emails with announcements from corporate IT sometimes looks and sounds like spam pushing MS products. Now I'm left wondering if that's related to bribes here too, or if it's just bad judgement/taste from IT leadership.