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Procurement Fraud in the IT Sector
TopShelf writes "IT staff usually enjoy unrivaled access to the deepest details of an organization's structure, and all too often, some submit to the urge to use that knowledge for nefarious purposes. Baseline Magazine explores how how Tech Insiders Cheat Their Employers, with examples of executives creating their own vendors to which fat contracts are awarded. Perhaps the most galling case involves a director in the New York City Chief Medical Examiner's office who is accused of scamming FEMA in the wake of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks."
Did he buy lapdances like the Katrina victims?
For six years I would take a pad of post-it notes from the supply cabinet. After I had enough stock, I opened a wholesale company and sold them all back at a discount rate. Then I did the same with toner cartridges, pens, erasers, etc. Eventually I worked up to filing cabinets.
I'm trying to figure out how to do it with the company cars, but that one's a little tough.
Maybe I shouldn't have named my fake vendor company Enron...
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Simon Travaglia's BOFH's been using those tricks for years.
For us, "settle privately" would be a nice way of saying "take into the back parking lot and kick the crap out of." I mean what are they going to do, call the cops? I'd love to hear THAT conversation.
Bad Guy: "Officer, these men beat me severely with IBM model M keyboards!"
Officer: "What possessed you to to this?"
Good Guys: "Sir, he defrauded our company of 3 million dollars."
Officer: "Oh, in that case, try this nightstick."
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
I would've gotten away with it too if it weren't for those meddling kids!
There's finally an article that can improve my bottom line.
I assume you are "singing" the Annie Linux version.
The only problem is that Data would never do something like sell Dilithium Crystals on ebay2400.com or anything else to profit from having control of the Enterprise. This would be more like the guy from the past who stole a time machine from a scientist from the future and then started making patents on stuff he stole off the Enterprise. Get your analogies striaght. :p
As a rule, I never trust dark brown ketchup.