Given that the World is in financial turmoil right now, with the US suffering in particular, the only I can see out of this for America is to start manufacturing and consuming it's own goods. Why do we see so many US & Canadian tech outfits on the ropes yet American Industry chooses Huawei over a Cisco or Nortel. This will not be allowed to continue - protection, as a national level, is going to start taking shape soon and the US will start eating its own dogfood. Stories like Satyam simply act as a catalyst to this happening.

"Satyam's emergency board is meeting again on Friday - it has appointed two firms of accountants to try and sort out their books."

Or, is that ONE firm of accountants, which has invented a second company in order to double it's own profits!

The 13,000 imaginary staff were the most productive

Many believe in reincarnation and staff accordingly. There may indeed be only Satyam 40,000 livng and breathing employees rather then 53,000. But are we counting those who died and came back to the job once reincarnated? I'm thinking not....

I'm with Paris on this one because we both like sloppy seconds in life.

He should have borrowed muni from himself, pretend to speculate on the market with it, incur great losses and pay it all to himself via another role and another account.

He'd probably got away with it for years?

...all gets better and better with these clowns, doesn't it.

Sigh.

I'm off to start measuring up some cardboard boxes and a nice dry-ish bridge to sleep under until this whole global corruption thing all blows over.

In a company that size, how could he get away with it without the HR department raising eyebrows?

Can you imagine him making 13,000 direct calls to the HR manager?

"Ah good morning again!"

"Oh hello sir, how can I help you this morning?"

"Well, i've got another person i'd like you to hire please. I've interviewed him directly and given him the job. I'll email you the details."

"That's fine sir. Am I to assume that his salary will be paid into the same bank account as all the others?"

"Er, yes, yes that's fine."

"Very good sir"

So, either the HR director knew, in which case he/she is complicit and should also be implicated, or it's a load of rubbish. Which one is it?

Ah the great "Indian" outsource did they not twig when all the employees names were very similar or did they just think they'd employeed one big family.

Yes time to get the Outsource back on "home soil" be that the USA or the UK...

I hate having to call BT for anything I get someone reading from a script with an accent I find hard to understand and they can barely understand me I have to speak really slowly..

And no they aren't from Brum and neither am I....