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To: Thebaddog

That was my first thought too, how on earth can somebody pull that off? The must be so little oversight for this to happen, can you imagine how much fraud there must be going on in these institutions? ...it seems you’ve never “heard it all” after all, it’s nuts. ...wondering who is this mans supervisor?


16 posted on 12/16/2013 2:29:02 PM PST by fuzzylogic (welfare state = sharing consequences of poor moral choices among everybody)
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To: fuzzylogic

Back around 2001....my old company...a Fortune 500 company, came to hire this guy at around $100k a year for a business and government contract. The place of work was in Fairfax, VA.

Across the street was another building, with another Fortune 500 company, who did similar business.

At some point, unknown to my company...this guy was offered a contract position with the 2nd company. He accepted, but required them to accept him not showing up until 10AM in the morning. They agreed, but never grasped that he was NOT leaving his old company.

So he’d show up at work at my company...work three hours, and then shuffle off to a “break” and lunch (which was three hours). He’d show back around 1PM, work two hours....then quietly disappear for the rest of the day, while at company two....staying there until 7PM.

For roughly a year, this went on. One day...one of my companies managers was at the front of the building and observed this guy walking out and going to the second building. He asked questions. It took about three days for them to finally get around to figuring the whole scheme at that point. Both company A and B management met, and both decided at the same time to fire this guy. Both made pretty negative comments over his ethics and I’m not sure what happened to the guy after that.

Most of us who heard the story a year or two later....admired the guy for being inventive and hard-working....he was putting twelve hours a day...between two companies. The problem was that he was charging both for the same hours.


40 posted on 12/17/2013 3:09:16 AM PST by pepsionice
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