My dad worked during the heyday of the .com era - he once had a CFO who would just go on benders for like 4-5 days, wake up in some foreign country surrounded by hookers and blow (like, very literally, not as a futurama reference), then just fly back and act like nothing happened.
When I worked for Oracle I had to take yearly training to tell me in no uncertain terms that I am NOT allowed to buy hookers for customers OR potential customers. And I was an engineer.
I just wonder what the hell happened that they had to do that.
We had a CTO who was a massive coke fiend as well. Dumb as dirt, only had his position because he was married to the daughter of the company’s founder. We once had a client who had been with us for ten years visit and this CTO wandered into a meeting with them and babbled for 45 minutes and then suddenly said “so … does it sound like you guys would like to do business with us?”
He eventually divorced the daughter, who was friends with many of the employees and aired her dirty laundry on Facebook so we all got to see it. Apparently her nickname for him was “ol’ three inches two minutes”.
My dad worked during the heyday of the .com era - he once had a CFO who would just go on benders for like 4-5 days, wake up in some foreign country surrounded by hookers and blow (like, very literally, not as a futurama reference), then just fly back and act like nothing happened.
When I worked for Oracle I had to take yearly training to tell me in no uncertain terms that I am NOT allowed to buy hookers for customers OR potential customers. And I was an engineer.
I just wonder what the hell happened that they had to do that.
They used to have a hooker tent at CES. Seriously.
Also the porn companies had booths at CES showcasing porn on VHS
Was it a luxury tent at least?
no, but with the blow you didn’t really care.
My company wouldn’t even let us expense tips at restaurants.
Somebody put hookers on their expense report for reimbursement: “She was for a client!”
Seriously, they said it’s not a valid expense like five times. WTF Oracle.
We had a CTO who was a massive coke fiend as well. Dumb as dirt, only had his position because he was married to the daughter of the company’s founder. We once had a client who had been with us for ten years visit and this CTO wandered into a meeting with them and babbled for 45 minutes and then suddenly said “so … does it sound like you guys would like to do business with us?”
He eventually divorced the daughter, who was friends with many of the employees and aired her dirty laundry on Facebook so we all got to see it. Apparently her nickname for him was “ol’ three inches two minutes”.