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by TimTheTinker2 hours ago |
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upvoteby dearsiary72 hours ago|
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Because my boss like golf courses and even more when oracle sales rep pays.
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upvoteby TimTheTinker1 hours ago|
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Wait, Oracle sales reps give decision-makers personal kickbacks for buying Oracle??

Stay classy Oracle. Such a banal depth of evil.

Why hasn't this been outlawed?

I guess companies that knowingly employ such managers deserve to lose whatever Oracle's legal team extracts out of them.

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upvoteby eru3 minutes ago|
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> Wait, Oracle sales reps give decision-makers personal kickbacks for buying Oracle??

When Oracle does it, it's a scandal. But when an airline gives the people personal 'miles' for their business trips, it's business as usual.

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upvoteby smuhakg41 minutes ago|
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They've been charged multiple times for bribing foreign government officials.

https://www.sec.gov/newsroom/press-releases/2022-173

This is why corporate procurement in a large enterprise is so bureaucratic. If you have 20 layers of approval that's 20 people that need cocaine and prostitutes yet could blow the whistle.

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upvoteby xyzzy_plugh1 hours ago|
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You've clearly never purchased enterprise software at scale before. Oracle doesn't do anything that everyone else isn't already doing.

Dinners, drinks, bottles of scotch, tickets to baseball and football games, plane tickets to attend training sessions in conference rooms attached to nice beachside hotels, business lunches at strip clubs, Superbowl tickets, cruise tickets, wristwatches...

Not to mention mugs, tshirts, water bottles and stickers.

Everything is on the menu.

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upvoteby lenkite6 minutes ago|
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Our company has a strict gift giving and no-bribes policy. Everyone needs to sign that they have read it. It is even more extensive for the sales/procurement teams.
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upvoteby TimTheTinker1 hours ago|
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I'm calling my senators and house rep.

Holy crap.

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upvoteby Bendy38 minutes ago|
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There is a scene in a French documentary in which a former Dassault boss displays his vintage wine collection as one of his many tools to ease arms supply deals with various nations. When the journalist asked him if it really works like this he responded, “Of course, because men are pigs!”
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upvoteby kdheiwns59 minutes ago|
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Not sure why you're surprised. That's just how business/networking/capitalism works everywhere on earth and it's been like that since the dawn of civilization. And why would Congress stop is since they're all getting the same benefits and don't even hide it?
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upvoteby TimTheTinker34 minutes ago|
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I guess I thought integrity was still at least considered an ideal to strive for in the West.
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upvoteby eru2 minutes ago|
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Well, nothing specific to capitalism here.
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upvoteby wolfi12 hours ago|
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nobody has ever been fired for using Oracle
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upvoteby TimTheTinker1 hours ago|
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I'd fire someone for using Oracle. I'd put it in the employee handbook.

I bet Oxide would too.

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upvoteby trollbridge20 minutes ago|
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Oracle products (including VirtualBox and MySQL) are banned in our workplace as well. We do not want to deal with licensing nightmares because someone accidentally downloaded the JDK or the E1000 drivers for VBox.
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upvoteby theideaofcoffee2 hours ago|
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Ass-covering.

The same reason why most huge enterprises buy insane support contracts for every other piece of shitty software: support, and someone to blame when production goes pear-shaped. Because there’s no real management left anywhere, there’s no time to grow expertise internally and everyone just needs that hit of Risk Management (tm), they’ll go to whatever lengths to get it. Oracle is like the ultimate warm, fuzzy blanket where that fuzz is actually mold, it delivers the scared-shitless enterprises from having to think for themselves.

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