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Izmaki • today at 11:10 AM • 8 replies • view on HN

Deloitte has, I've heard (!), in their training material a section about integrity and how important it is to act ethically correct. Deloitte also does sh*t like this and - again, I've heard (!) - asks its employees to bill hours on projects they are not working on so that they can maximize profits at their clients expenses. Also elephants are pink.

How this company can proceed to exist is beyond me.

For legal reasons I must emphasize that this is hear-say and should not be trusted as facts. At least one statement is a lie. What you believe is true is up to you.


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UpsideDownRide • today at 11:33 AM

They had me watch some nonsense on integrity as part of the training.

All the while we were doing financial regulation software without any proper tests on the models being done outside of some spot checks.

And the idea of doing those was frowned upon :)

Lovely place.

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jacquesm • today at 12:20 PM

I see their work product with some regularity. To say I'm not impressed would be a severe understatement and I really don't understand why companies keep hiring them.

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ronbenton • today at 12:20 PM

For what it’s worth, I’m not so sure there’s much of a difference in delivered value between the hours truthfully billed vs. fraudulently billed

penguin_booze • today at 12:22 PM

> about integrity and how important it is to act ethically correct

There's also a fine print at the bottom that says 'lolz'.

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BLKNSLVR • today at 12:12 PM

KPMG, E&Y, PWC, they're all the same because they have to compete with each other's dishonesty in order to both maximise profits and maximise cough tax savings cough for their customers.

There have been a couple of scandals in Australia, and yet they all remain part of 'the big four'. They're all tainted as fuck.

camcil • today at 11:19 AM

Sounds like every other corporation in America?

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UK-Al05 • today at 11:15 AM

Standard corporate nonsense. Enron famously had integrity plastered across it's corporate walls as it's values when they got done for fraud.

scotty79 • today at 11:20 AM

> How this company can proceed to exist is beyond me.

Isn't the whole point of these companies to rubberstamp shady things corporations are doing, so they can shed resposibility more easily when caught?

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