I live in Romania, and I'm not a tester but I will tell you that local management in many multinational or companies involved with multinationals have a way of being extremely inefficient and bombarding employees with useless work with management pretty much lying to the stakeholders about what is actually going on. I've experienced this first hand in multiple corporations and I've spoken to many people. some of these companies I worked at lost projects because of these type of lies. <br><br>I will not mention what company specifically...but they were involved with Microsoft and Lenovo and lost at least one of those projects.<br><br>people were leaving right and left and local management lied about how many employees were working on projects. I was indirectly involved in a situation where Lenovo was under the impression a specific team were all male. when they called the service line they got a girl on the phone and they started asking questions about how many people are actually employed. they made people work on the accounts of people that already left the company to make it seem there wasn't a high turn over rate, and using the excuse with employees that their accounts just weren't ready yet. I asked around the company and this seemed to be common practice in other projects as well.<br><br>when this specific situation played out, the project manager asked the girl to work on another account which was also not under her name but someone else who had already left. that's the point I knew what they were doing. I left the company along with my entire team and the project was closed mere months after.<br><br>so what I am hearing here doesn't sound incredibly shocking.