Slashdot Mirror
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."
It's too bad that most companies are only in business to line the pockets of the top execs this quarter, and damn the next financial period; we'll figure that out later.
.they tend to be more reliant on high performing and essentially irreplacable personel.
It goes a bit deeper than that I'm afraid.
The modern model for business structure requires hiring and treating people as interchangable parts in a machine. This has nothing to do with short term greed, but is rather aimed at the sustainability of the business itself.
This is one of the reasons that new, small businesses can out perform older, larger businesses. They tend to be more reliant on high performing and essentially irreplacable personel. Say; the founder.
One of the reasons that new, small businesses tend to fail is because. .
So both short term greed and long term surviability can lead to an air of people not mattering. The opposite of love is not hate; it is indifference. In the average company they aren't actually out to get you, they simply don't give a fuck about you.
KFG