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by dearsiary71 hours ago |
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upvoteby TimTheTinker58 minutes 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 smuhakg2 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_plugh45 minutes 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 TimTheTinker43 minutes ago|
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I'm calling my senators and house rep.

Holy crap.

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upvoteby kdheiwns19 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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