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Something is not in Ordnung in the State of Lower Saxony.
This is a public-relations (and financial) disaster for the company involved. Are the Germans, of all people, so over-confident as to believe that no-one would attempt to duplicate their results?!
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Make you wonder how many of the other companies do the same thing... 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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I'll bet that the EPA is scrambling to test other manufacturers' vehicles in different modes (and that any cheats are scrambling to bury the bodies...)
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Several companies were busted in the last year or so for cooking the books on their MPG numbers.
Did you ever see history portrayed as an old man with a wise brow and pulseless heart, waging all things in the balance of reason?
Is not rather the genius of history like an eternal, imploring maiden, full of fire, with a burning heart and flaming soul, humanly warm and humanly beautiful?
--Zachris Topelius
Training a telescope on one’s own belly button will only reveal lint. You like that? You go right on staring at it. I prefer looking at galaxies.
-- Sarah Hoyt
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I could find the 'Code of Conduct' document for this company - 24 pages long. Some words in there are - sustainable, responsible, compliance, etc. The employees involved in this episode have certainly signed this document .
A big embarrassment for such a reputed company. Wonder how many heads will roll, and where the buck will ultimately stop.
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Avijnata wrote: sustainable, responsible, compliance, etc
All that proves is that the 'Code of Conduct' is buzzword-compliant. Employees may have signed the document, but how many would actually sit down and read 24 pages of such fecal matter?
If you have an important point to make, don't try to be subtle or clever. Use a pile driver. Hit the point once. Then come back and hit it again. Then hit it a third time - a tremendous whack.
--Winston Churchill
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Those words are just that - words.
I came across this article on Johnson and Joshnson through Bloomberg View today. It was so depressing (it's also rather long) I gave up after the first chapter.
http://highline.huffingtonpost.com/miracleindustry/americas-most-admired-lawbreaker/[^]
When it came time to explain their conduct at trials and to federal investigators, Johnson & Johnson executives and salespeople have unwaveringly, even indignantly, defended themselves. One salesman, who otherwise fit the salt-of-the-earth mold that R.W. Johnson had envisioned for his company’s employees, gave thousands of Risperdal samples in child-sized doses to Austin Pledger’s doctor in Birmingham, Alabama. Yet he insisted under oath in February he didn’t recall stepping around kiddie furniture and toys as he walked into an office with a sign that said “pediatric neurologist,” and that he had no way of knowing that the doctor wasn’t treating adults.
Cheers,
विक्रम
"We have already been through this, I am not going to repeat myself." - fat_boy, in a global warming thread 
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 If they break the law in US itself, I shudder to think what they would do in our own India.
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I don't have an account.
My question: Has anyone here ever found a job due to having a profile/account on LinkedIN? I never heard of anyone that has?
I actually don't know what the purpose of LinkedIN is? Please explain to me this phenomenon that seems to have ZERO purpose in my life.
Thanks.
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Slacker007 wrote: I don't have an account.
neither do I
But to be honest... I landed in my actual job because an ex-coworker gave my data to a company that contacted him via XING (similar to LinkedIn)
I guess there really are people using it
M.D.V. 
If something has a solution... Why do we have to worry about?. If it has no solution... For what reason do we have to worry about?
Help me to understand what I'm saying, and I'll explain it better to you
Rating helpful answers is nice, but saying thanks can be even nicer.
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Landed a few thru Craig's List.
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LinkedIn is the new monster.com. I remember what it was like it the roaring 1990s/2000s when you had to beat job offers away with a stick there were so many. You could expect a dozen offers within hours of flipping the switch on your monster.com profile. LinkedIn is not necessarily on that level, but if you are in the market and you're serious about considering offers, LinkedIn is a fantastic resource.
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I landed my current job via LinkedIn, direct from the company and not via a recruiter.
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Message Closed
modified 21-Nov-20 21:01pm.
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I get headhunters contacting me almost weekly through LinkedIn.
I'm not interested in a new job right now, but if I were I'd probably have a few job offers right now 
Just last week someone contacted me for a job in Rotterdam (near where I live) and then he offered to call me to discuss my skills and expectations and see if he maybe had something even closer to home.
And this wasn't one of those automated, badly translated, standard 'job offers' that promises you unicorns either (you get those too)
Other than that I use LinkedIn to share my own blog posts.
And I know they are seen/read because people view my profile after I post a new article and because the LinkedIn share button on my blog shows the times it's been shared on LinkedIn
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Interesting. I am glad it helped you. As of yet, I do not know anyone where it has helped them here, in my part of New York. I'm not saying it doesn't work, just saying I have not seen it work for anyone I know.
Again, it seems to be doing well for you. 
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Similar experience here.
I've been approached by a company which has been interested in my LinkedIn profile.
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Slacker007 wrote: I actually don't know what the purpose of LinkedIN is?
Nobody does. That's why it's got such a large membership. Everybody joined hoping to find out! It's main purpose seems to be providing material for stand-up comedians!
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This brings up the recent flaming of a casual comment in a brain_fart_moment by a legal professional when he tried to compliment a colleague on her appearance.
The difficult may take time, the impossible a little longer.
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I haven't, but it can be handy.
If you want to know about someone you are going to be meeting, it's effectively a copy of their CV - so you can find out how qualified and experienced they are to be doing whatever it is you are meeting them for.
Herself had to attend a "mediation session" recently (another member of staff is trying to claim compensation from the company because everybody else in the company is "bullying her", so this is compulsory) and I did a quick name-check on the mediation counselor. A quick course in-house and 3 months in post; a media arts graduate who's TV career has failed to get off the ground. Fills you with confidence, that... 
When she walked in and knew more about him that he knew about her, it helped the meeting go a little better. 
Bad command or file name. Bad, bad command! Sit! Stay! Staaaay...
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OriginalGriff wrote: t's effectively a copy of their CV
Forged, just like it is on paper!
We used to have a contractor, for about 6 months, who was brought in to repackage applications. He did ONE application in 3 months. On his LinkedIn profile it says he was instrumental in designing and deploying our entire SCCM 2012 infrastructure. The system was completely installed by 2 people (not him) and running before his contract even started!
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Dave Kreskowiak wrote: We used to have a contractor
Contractor?...
I built that company. They changed the name after I left, but I created the company, made it successful and then walked away from it.
I also started AT&T and another little company which was renamed Microsoft after i sold it to Bill Gates.
Those are the little things I've done.
You can tell I'm telling the truth, it's all on my CV.
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I got contacts, interviews via Linkedin. Not a new job, yet.
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