Energy Drink Company Punished ERP Graybeard For Going Too Fast
The Register, Friday, October 3rd, 2025
Cool kids drank the aggressive micro-management Kool-Aid
This week, meet a reader we'll Regomize as "Charles" who kindly said he's been reading The Register for 30 years and shared a story of a contract gig he undertook at an energy drink company he described as somewhat "monstrous" - so it's not the one where scarlet bovines flourish.
Charles arrived to find an ERP project running very late, and in need of a veteran's experience to get it back on track. He also found a workplace full of enormous retail fridges stacked to the gills with the company's sugary caffeine beverages, yet with the mostly young staff ignoring the free drinks on offer.
"Maybe they liked sleeping and not becoming diabetic," Charles mused to On Call.
But we digress. On his first day in the job, Charles showed up in chinos and casual shirt.