What company in real life would you compare Encom to
and why????

Let me know what you think of this...

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I always felt like they meant it to start out as Apple-- something a visionary guy started in his garage-- and then turn into Microsoft. (Or perhaps they meant it to be Apple all along-- they are threatening to get a little big for their britches one of these days. Could apply to Google as well, I think.)

But really, I think the modern Encom could be evocative of any number of large corporations-- out for the buck, etc.

My guess would be either Microsoft or Apple, mostly for reasons listed already.

Encom looks like a typical example of corporate culture.

You know, a place where the "Peter Principle", people are promoted to their highest level of incompetence, is policy. But if you actually know how to do your job a glass cieling awaits.

Where superficiality is the game played each and every day.

Up first are the MBA's. These balloon knots excel at going around backstabbing co-workers, stealing the ideas of others, endlessly on the hunt to place blame instead of resolving problems and asskissing the execs in hopes it will result in moving higher up in the company to a position which they are incapable of performing. A MBA is equivalent to being a certified psychopath with a fancy piece of paper to hang on the wall.

Then there are the delightful meetings. Unecessary meetings for things that could be done in 5 minutes over the phone Meetings to decide what to eat for breakfast, lunch and dinner. And the ever popular meetings to decide when to have meetings.

Can't forget the rampant nepotism. Bust your butt for 5 years believing it lead to job security only to get replaced by the owner's son who is right out of community college. Oh and the best part is when you are TOLD, not asked, to train him for YOUR job if you want to be given a good reference from the company.

If all of this isn't enough, there is always some unidentified nobhead who picks through the refrigerator and eats food that isn't his. It is so conforting to discover halfway through your lunch that it was "sampled" from.

I knew this b.s. very well and it should come to no surprise why there are so many failing business in America.

*cringes*

I admit Imbroglio is spot on with some companies. It's absolutely crazy how some of them can be. I can imagine Encom being like EA Games or Activision. They started off as great companies with great video games. Later the top-cats start laying off their hard workers just because they either don't know how to handle budgets or are big jerks.

Edit: Oh, and in some horrible cases I've heard about. This is in relationship to how Kevin Flynn got cheated.

People who don't get credit for working on one of their games. Sometimes in these cases these are interns that work full time on a game. Sometimes also freelancers, and QA testers (QA is an important job too.).


Gotta love the classic "meetings to decide when to have meetings". Oh, and mysterious coworker picking through other people's lunch.

Precisely. Using company time and server space on his own personal projects? Especially if he then planned to make an uber-ton of money from them? Um...

Of course, it sounds like Tron was a personal project of Alan's as well, so...


And there's a reason why, when my partner developed some new software to make life easier at work, he did it at home on his own time-- because he wanted to SELL it to them, not have them appropriate it and give him no credit and barely a "thank you."

It could've been that back in that day, nobody thought that much of it. I mean, the cyber industry was not nearly as advanced as it is now (I mean, come on-- "reindeer flotilla" was considered a perfectly-acceptable password! To a bunch of computer geeks!).

And I suppose it's also possible Flynn was planning to do exactly what Dillinger did-- develop the stuff, then give it to Encom. Perhaps he would've received some sort of royalty, or at the very least, the sort of promotion Dillinger got (although we know how well THAT sort of role suited him...).