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I was a programmer and sysadmin at a company that had lots of people doing data entry. One of the typists found out that the client did not check the data at a
by orbitingpluto 14y ago
I was a programmer and sysadmin at a company that had lots of people doing data entry.
One of the typists found out that the client did not check the data at all. (It was all just packaged and resold.) She just hit OK for every single OCR scan that she was supposed to correct/verify. She was doing ten times as much as anyone else and doubling her salary with her bonus.
When made aware, management went along with it. I think it bordered on fraud.
On the flip side, I automated most of my sysadmin (and a lot of other co-workers) work and freed half of my work week. What did they want me to do? Data entry...
- rmc 14y agoI think it bordered on fraud. I don't think there's any "bordering" there. Imagine a plumber who realises that they don't need to lay all the pipes cause the client isn't going to test that the pipes are connected and hence doesn't lay the pipes, but still charges the client. Fraud.