Workers Exploited by Nonexistent Bosses

However, the main suspect is God.

Odd story from Indymedia Ireland:

"A Dublin "technology" company with links to Christian religious groups in America has been accused of intimidating staff, of failing to pay salaries, and sexual harrassment. Its work practices are bizarre. Fire escapes are locked. Management deny the allegations."

What's odd about that? Management ALWAYS deny allegations.

"Up to last Wednesday, Global Mobile Vision employed between approx. 60 staff at its offices in Clondalkin, north Dublin. GMV supposedly develops software for audio and video streaming technologies for 3G phones. Yet, a search of Vodafone, O2, Hutchinson, and other 2G and 3G mobile operators turn up a big zero for any partnerships. A search for "Global Mobile Vision" and other related search terms shows up nothing. Zero. Nil. No inbound, or outbound links anywhere. Very strange for a "high technology company with valuable intellectual property". It's so "high technology" that no one knows what they "do". One would be forgiven for classifying this as "snakeoil". Current and former staff said that they did almost no work at the company, they received few orders, and no conrete work (other than "go search the Internet for a while"). One ex-staff member said "after one week, I eventually got a computer but it had no software. I had to use my own software - I told them I would use it until I got me some official legal software but it never arrived."

Ethereal computing? Spooky, eh? And just how many angels can you get on a CD-ROM?

Yet, for a company that does so little, management still felt obliged to engage in the traditional management practices of intimidating staff, witholding pay, and sexually harassing employees. They clearly realized the need to keep up appearances.