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December 08, 2008
The heat is not on in the building. We are freezing. Also you cannot get a couple hours off to go to a personal appointment without taking official time off. The owners don't come in until late in the day and they are never available to discuss anything. The pre-sales engineers tell employees to lie about functionality since many applications don't work. Customers only find out after purchase.
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Re: Horrible company posted on December 08, 2008 12:20 PM
That would be funny if it didn't sound like you were still working there. Here in the Boston area it's quite cold today!It is a bit funny that nothing's changed. When I worked at Softscape, the AC was off for a long stretch during some hot weather in late spring and early summer. It was 80-85F and we were all sweating. I'll always remember an officemate turning to me and saying, after wiping the sweat from his brow with a handkerchief, "It's going to be a long summer!"PS: I was on the ground floor, and my desk was next to an outside wall. We had ants coming in through a crack between the floor and the wall. We had little anthills on the carpet!PS: And, that same spring, the toilets backed up, flooding half the ground floor of the "Sofscape Center" with stinky water! -
Re: Horrible company posted by sysadmin on December 09, 2008 09:25 PM
Successfactors is at it again. They have laid off 25% of their workforce according to 3 recently laid of and recently interviewed SF people. Too bad they have too much time on their hands to spread false rumors and allegation on web sites. Anonymous person - tell us who you are! -
Re: Horrible company posted by thehacker on December 10, 2008 10:11 AM
sysadmin wrote:Anonymous person - tell us who you are!
You first! -
Re: Horrible company posted on December 10, 2008 10:27 AM
It is odd how defensive pro-Softscape posters are. They appear to be responding to comments that are about other companies! Sad really. -
Softscape Loses Another Lawsuit posted on May 21, 2009 12:19 PM
From this web page: http://www.leadertelegram.com/story-news_local.asp?id=BJVRL0JCJSH
"A jury sided with Eau Claire County in a civil case last week against a Delaware software company hired to install a computer system to track cases for the county Human Services Department.
The jury ruled the county and software company Softscape did not fulfill their contracts, but awarded $307,000 in damages to the county, and awarded Softscape $36,000 from the county."
A lot more detail at the above link... -
Couldn't get the job done for the county posted on May 21, 2009 12:27 PM
Another Interesting bit about Softscape from this page:
http://www.wqow.com/Global/story.asp?S=10348168
"Eau Claire (WQOW) - A computer company that couldn't get the job done for the county has been ordered to pay up.
A jury ordered Softscape Development to pay Eau Claire County about $270,000.
The county hired the company to redo the software system for human services. But after it paid out about $165,000 for the job, the county says it became clear there were problems.
The jury found the company made false claims and breached its contract."
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