Do you work for an 'evil' company?

Theophany · 23 Feb 2013 at 12:31

Skidder said:
May be she wasn't talking about the job?

I have my own consulting company and we are too unknown outside our niche to register on your evilometers. Our clients range from skull island owning megalomaniac entrepreneurs, through baby eating funds and banks and on to donkey rescuing trusts full of do-gooders. It's the latter that get on wick.

Ha! The irony was that she was a paralegal. Apparently it's not conducive to a happy relationship to then call her an ambulance chaser.

But we all know you're evil. Economist = tenuous link to banks = evil. Perhaps you did not get the memo?

King Damager · 23 Feb 2013 at 12:35

Theophany said:
Ha! The irony was that she was a paralegal. Apparently it's not conducive to a happy relationship to then call her an ambulance chaser.

But we all know you're evil. Economist = tenuous link to banks = evil. Perhaps you did not get the memo?

Ah, ok, apparently now I'm evil...

My bad

kd

dowie · 23 Feb 2013 at 12:37

Theophany said:
I work for an asset management company, we're considered evil by the unwashed masses despite the fact we engage in no investment banking practices. We also voluntarily covered all the losses our hedge funds made in 2008. Not that it makes a difference; I had an ex-girlfriend who asked me how I could get up every morning and continue being a shyster. :/

Well some people would call it evil because an asset management firm is not really producing anything rather they're making money from money. Some might see it as getting disproportionate rewards from the rest of society for essentially just allocating resources(capital).

On the other hand, its a free country and I don't see an issue with financial rewards being gained by people who put capital at risk.. someone needs to allocate funds and anyone can be an investor.

Theophany · 23 Feb 2013 at 12:43

dowie said:
Well some people would call it evil because an asset management firm is not really producing anything rather they're making money from money. Some might see it as getting disproportionate rewards from the rest of society for essentially just allocating resources(capital).

On the other hand, its a free country and I don't see an issue with financial rewards being gained by people who put capital at risk.. someone needs to allocate funds and anyone can be an investor.

Well if the metric of good and evil is production of a physical good, I guess hairdressers and estate agents are evil too then.

EyepodI · 23 Feb 2013 at 12:49

I used to work for a company that was probably in the top 5 most evil companies in the world. It's dodgy accounting practices and subsequent collapse spawned the global economic meltdown.

dowie · 23 Feb 2013 at 13:28

Theophany said:
Well if the metric of good and evil is production of a physical good, I guess hairdressers and estate agents are evil too then.

doesn't have to be physical goods

(though I'm not saying that making money by risking money is evil)

Then again estate agents aren't all that popular either

Kamwah · 23 Feb 2013 at 13:29

Show me a company that's not evil and I'll show you a OCUK Mug.

ethan · 23 Feb 2013 at 14:18

CQC. Incompetence abounds. Not evil as such luckily.

Pestilence · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:07

Maybe facilitating/perpetuating evil, but not intrinsically evil itself.

Nitefly · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:17

I'll happily report that Union Carbide have always been at the forefront of corporate responsibility.

dbmzk1 · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:30

Nope but I have a friend who works for EA

He is currently working on SimCity though, which is slightly less evil due to being ex-Maxis

The Funktopus · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:39

I work for Wilhelmsen Ship Management, who are Norwegians. Norwegians can't be evil, they gave us Ah-Ha and Roykksop.

(Entirely glossing over the mid-90's aberration that were Aqua)

nath247 · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:42

Some of the people are evil.

Skidder · 23 Feb 2013 at 15:45

Theophany said:
Ha! The irony was that she was a paralegal. Apparently it's not conducive to a happy relationship to then call her an ambulance chaser.

But we all know you're evil. Economist = tenuous link to banks = evil. Perhaps you did not get the memo?

That is true, not as bad as the Mrs though, she was with an investment bank and prior to that a hedge fund of funds, she is Beelzebub. Currently not working so we have had to cut back on the human skin lampshades for the time being.

SlyReaper · 23 Feb 2013 at 16:25

My company is probably regarded as evil by anti-war types.

Spuds · 23 Feb 2013 at 16:38

I work for a computer games company, so tea party nut jobs probably don't like us very much

bertles86 · 23 Feb 2013 at 16:39

No. Unless you class designing and installing home automation and cinemas evil.

bcjames · 23 Feb 2013 at 16:48

Self employed and also work for a small company owned by a friend. Quite sure neither are evil and certainly not big corporations.

Stolly · 23 Feb 2013 at 17:02

We provide the means for 38 million people a day to spend money on credit cards.

Not our fault if the silly sods can't pay it back !

chief barker · 23 Feb 2013 at 17:28

I know a lot of people hate the Daily Mail in this forum, So I possibly work for an evil company.