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Re:Former paralegal charged with forging the signatures of N... by lifeisstillgood on Wednesday September 16, 2015 @07:39PM (#10230725)
Will you take 111k today or a job paying you 33k pa for the next thirty years? That's the ratio 20k : 180k. Oh and you can't go out and get another job - that 110k has to last the next three decades.

It's clear cut throat exploration.

And I utterly refuse to believe this paralegal just suddenly took it into his head to forge those signatures and everyone else at the company were poor naive innocent dupes

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Re:Former paralegal charged with forging the signatures of N... by mikeash on Thursday September 17, 2015 @04:57PM (#10236016)
Companies love to set things up such that illegal activity is never ever ever tolerated, but at the same time set up metrics and goals that are impossible to meet legally. Then you just keep firing people who underperform, and the rest happens by magic. This lets them reap all the benefits of illegal activity, while letting low-level employees shoulder all the blame.
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