Shenanigans at IBM Japan

[Mulboyne]

Bloomberg: IBM Cuts Revenue After Japan Sales Booked Improperly
International Business Machines Corp., the world's biggest computer company, reduced its 2004 revenue and costs by $260 million after discovering some employees in Japan booked sales improperly...Some IBM employees in Japan "acted improperly and inconsistently" in sales of third-party hardware, the company said.

[Captain Japan]

A side note...I used to live directly across from IBM headquarters. The building is about 25 stories. At about 9:30 every night the building would stage this strange light show. It was choreographed through the interior lighting of each office. It would start with all the lights in each office turned on. Then one by one starting they'd get turned off. It looked like falling dominos or a moving centipede as row after would get turned off - it was really fast, maybe the entire building in 10 seconds. Then when it finished, they'd go back on again in the same way. Then it would get a little crazy and mix things up with random blinking of the lights in various offices. This would continue for a few hours. And it happened on most nights.

[Big Booger]

A side note...I used to live directly across from IBM headquarters. The building is about 25 stories. At about 9:30 every night the building would stage this strange light show. It was choreographed through the interior lighting of each office. It would start with all the lights in each office turned on. Then one by one starting they'd get turned off. It looked like falling dominos or a moving centipede as row after would get turned off - it was really fast, maybe the entire building in 10 seconds. Then when it finished, they'd go back on again in the same way. Then it would get a little crazy and mix things up with random blinking of the lights in various offices. This would continue for a few hours. And it happened on most nights.

"They're here..."