If ever there was a company that deserves to be shut down forever it is Siemens AG.
Nazi Favorites
Siemens AG manufactured many of the items used by the Nazis to kill. They made great profit from this by using slave labor from concentration camps, most notoriously at the Ravensbruck Concentration Camp. Slaves would build electric switches for Siemens manufactured V-2 rockets in the morning and be murders in Siemens built gas chambers in the afternoon.
Heartless Marketers
In 2002 Siemens wanted to build gas ovens for the home using the trademark name Zyklon. That just happens also to be the name of the poison used in concentration camp gas chambers. Siemens continues to use that horrid name to market a line of vacuum cleaners in Germany.
Bribers Extraordinaire
As if to prove that time has not diminished Siemens AG's skill in immoral enterprises, it has engaged in a wide spread enterprise of bribery. This has led to the largest ever fine, $1.6 billion. Yet, the truth is that Siemens is getting off easy. The fine is small enough that Siemens has still made a good profit from their illegal activities. Also, they get to keep all of their government contracts and retain the right to go after still more government contracts. If Siemens has learned any lesson at all it is to disguise their bribery better.
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Unfortunately i worked for them recently and it doesn't sound like they've changed much over the years. Still an evil company, with no sense of corporate responsibility, that seems to attract a bunch of ignorant, complacent slackers. The world would definitely benefit from their disappearence.
I believe Siemens was also contracted to build a Nuclear Power Plant in Iran a few decades ago. Should we really be doing business with a company that involved in the WWII holocaust, and supports countries like Iran. To me it looks like a company that is channeling our money to evil doers around the world.
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