Deloitte has got, 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 to be true is up to you.

Deloitte operates much more like a franchise network than a single multinational corporation. It's technically a network of independent, locally owned professional-services partnerships.

This one appears to be Cyprus - clearly the center of ethical business operations...

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.

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

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

To be fair, this is Deloitte Cyprus. Not that other partnerships wouldn’t do the same, but one that is set up in a renowned tax haven is likely to come across some interesting work.

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

Most corporations probably have those. They also have similar training about security, and yet. Software corporations have similar training about software engineering practices, and yet.

The goal is not to train you, but to limit their liability. They can say they have a track record of ethical training, and then off the track have incentives to do unethical stuff.

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.

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

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gxd23UVID7k&list=RDGxd23UVID...

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.

Sounds like every other corporation in America?

Every bank has exactly same stuff. Any new scandal adds another 1..X mandatory trainings for much of / all staff, usually quaterly recurring ones.

Things like escalate problems to correct teams, even where to (supposedly anonymously) whistleblow, but thats most probably 1 way ticket to unemployment office with a sife effect of appearing on some industry-wide even if local blacklist.

They are so predicrable I dont read accompanying materials anymore and usually just 1-shot final tests, maybe apart from stuff that I never touched nor heard of, that sometimes requires second go.

To sum it up - those trainings are not ultimate business guidelines. The more they veer on what to do in case of something bad/spicy happens, the more they are some court ordered result of some long legal battle and settlement&fine.

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

> 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?

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

How can they not proceed. They are making money doing nothing and have no moral boundaries. And now we find out they have no legal boundaries either.