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What do you mean by "(a fraud prevention measure to make it hard to cover any wrong doing)"?

• rpeden 8y ago
  It's not all that common for developers, but forced vacations are fairly normal in accounting and finance - or at least they were in another lifetime when I worked in accounting. There have been cases where an employee has been committing fraud, but it wasn't discovered for years because the person never took a day off and so was able to continually cover up their wrongdoing. There's a decent discussion of it here on Stack Exchange: https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/107060/mandatory-vacation-as-a-security-control https://security.stackexchange.com/questions/107060/mandator...
  • mikestew 8y ago
    but forced vacations are fairly normal in accounting and finance - or at least they were in another lifetime when I worked in accounting. It probably hasn't been ten years since my aunt's most recent husband got caught in that exact manner, and I'd frankly be surprised if it weren't still common, given that it appears to work. (As a footnote, it was an interesting phenomenon to watch. "He's an accountant at some no-name company, and she sells Mary Kay. Where the hell are these Bahama vacations and the big house coming from? Mary Kay didn't give her that Cadillac, she bought it because no one buys Mary Kay. I dunno, must be up to their eyeballs in debt." Of course, looking back now it was friggin' obvious. His unfortunate solution to the hammer that was soon to fall on his head involved a 12 gauge shotgun.)