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Everyone griping about red tape don't understand that the red tape is the point. If your expense is important enough to go through the paperwork then it can be
by neuroelectron 2y ago
Everyone griping about red tape don't understand that the red tape is the point. If your expense is important enough to go through the paperwork then it can be addressed and petty cash increased. Otherwise, what do you think is better in the long term for effectiveness. Cutting the limit on thousands or hundreds of thousands spending accounts and going through the exceptions or letting them spend without oversight forever while you try to comb the queue looking for fraud, trying to get people to answer the phone and playing email tag?
- righthand 2y agoWhere does it say there was no oversight in spending? That is a part of the lie. Locking up cards because “something could happen” is just a useless defense. The funds could get approved, the limit raised and then something could happen. Terrorists aren’t going to drain the Fed through government employee spending cards. So now instead the red tape is causing inefficiency in an area that was already efficient as applicable to the risk.
- teucris 2y agoUnless the red tape is expensive. The trick is to be smart at striking the balance between reining in spending while not having a paperwork system that costs even more. Setting the limit to $1 doesn’t seem like striking any kind of balance.