LFG Looking For a Company to Do Bad Things

[Holly Starstorm]

I would like to write a story about a company doing something they really shouldn’t be. Maybe they are dumping waste in a protected environment? Or maybe they pay their female employees less than the men? Maybe the boss is a little too grabby at parties?

I could NPC it but it’s way more fun if there is someone out there willing to get a nosy reporter up in their business

 

[Elkin "Big Cheese" Magor]

The only thing that The Big Cheese likes less than dwindling profits are NOSY REPORTERS! YOU BETTER GET YOUR NOSE OUT OF MY THRIVING BUSINESSES! YOU HEAR ME?! I DEFINITELY DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO HIDE!

(OOC: Seriously PM me, I got some ideas to play with.)

 

[BIG Z1776]

I would like to write a story about a company doing something they really shouldn’t be. Maybe they are dumping waste in a protected environment? Or maybe they pay their female employees less than the men? Maybe the boss is a little too grabby at parties?

I could NPC it but it’s way more fun if there is someone out there willing to get a nosy reporter up in their business

How about a company doing something like...this? I can do all the NPC's for your character.

 

[AMCO]

Holly Starstorm

Oh boy do I have a few options for you. In no particular order...

• The Globex Corporation treats its employees super well... but cares much less about contractors. In fact, they're not even counted in workplace injury statistics and Globex Security Division internal regulations stipulate that its officers should value the lives of employees higher than contractors and temps if forced to chose. It's also been known to buy out competitors in order to enforce local monopolies, albeit without any real price-gouging - that tends to provoke political scrutiny.
  • The Corex Trading Company used to Sith-Imperial slaves and free them on the condition that they sign ironclad and occasionally dangerous employment contracts. Only recently were the last of these contracts given an early termination - the executives responsible largely "retired to spend time with their families"... with hefty severance packages, in quite a few cases.
  • Gellenbright Securities always keeps their agreements, even when ethics or the lives of their employees points in the opposite direction, so long as no relevant exit clauses are applicable. Honest business practice or putting the brand above morality?
• The InterGalactic Gene Bank is dedicated enough to preserving genetic diversity for posterity's sake that it accepts material donations without checking that they're acquired legally. It also has a few "Food for Samples" programs where they give a desperate people sandwiches or something for blood donations and the like.
• Vysh-Kolluri straight-up experiments on unwilling sentiments, notably prisoners, to speed up pharmaceutical development.
• Kalidan Fried Ewok... is just inherently shady. No journalism required.

Of course, pretty much any of these could have individual employees/executives doing something they really shouldn't have.

 

[Ingrid L'lerim]

Vexilium is the largest shareholder in Kalidan Fried Ewok. The company has quite a few underworld connections, and they secretly even deal with drug production and trafficking. Not to mention smuggling, extortion, bribery and usury.

 

[Holly Starstorm]

These are great! Let me read up on then and figure out how to continue

 

[Holly Starstorm]

Okay so I could do this a few different ways:

We could do a thread with Holly investigating or Holly could release a broadcast and we focus more on the companies trying to clean up the mess.

thoughts?

Ingrid L'lerim AMCO BIG Z1776

 

[BIG Z1776]

Holly Starstorm Seeing as the way the Crossroads Ghosts kill, and the evidence they leave behind, is so mysterious, I can see an investigation being more in line for that sort of thread.

 

[Holly Starstorm]

BIG Z1776 shall I start a thread?

 

[BIG Z1776]

Don't the Crossroads Ghosts need to be approved first?

Holly Starstorm

 

[BIG Z1776]

Holly Starstorm Turns out that yes, they'll need to be submitted and approved before using them. Sucks...but our lovely judges need their rest. Goodness knows they'll be bombarded come January 7th.

 

[Holly Starstorm]

BIG Z1776 no worries at all. It will probably take them some time so we can wait until they are there.

 

[BIG Z1776]

It'll let you get some threads with those who are ready to go right now.

 

[AMCO]

Okay so I could do this a few different ways:

We could do a thread with Holly investigating or Holly could release a broadcast and we focus more on the companies trying to clean up the mess.

thoughts?

Ingrid L'lerim AMCO BIG Z1776

I'd be down for either, honestly, depends on which part you want to pursue - some of them are hidden enough that it'd require some investigation (notably Vysh-Kolluri's prisoner experiments) while others are already out there (notably Corex's recent cancelling of that shady as hell buy-free-employment policy.)

 

[Ingrid L'lerim]

Any of them suit me.