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There's a story about when Robert MacNamara arrived at Ford. Accounting was in such disarray that they weighed their invoices and only checked them if X pounds
by forinti 5y ago
There's a story about when Robert MacNamara arrived at Ford. Accounting was in such disarray that they weighed their invoices and only checked them if X pounds was more than Y dollars. That must have been a scammer's paradise.
- aerostable_slug 5y agoI worked for a megacorp and made friends with a guy who worked in the underground data centers at HQ. He'd end up with spare equipment and ask I wanted it to play with. He once offered me (with no witnesses) a check writing machine that was still loaded with a spool of thousands of blank corporate checks. Knowing what would be considered a rounding error with the billing & accounting systems there, I probably could have made off with a fair amount of loot. It still surprises me to this day that he didn't really realize what he had and what it could do, but then again he didn't get a lot of sunlight, so...
- woleium 5y agomaybe he was smarter than you give him credit for. He didn't directly ask you to collude in fraud, but he got as close as he could without implication.