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Ouch. That comment seemed to me to be to be a very ill-considered and off-handed slap down. Yes, payroll systems have problems, but, frankly, you don't know wh
by DanielBMarkham 13y ago
Ouch. That comment seemed to me to be to be a very ill-considered and off-handed slap down.
Yes, payroll systems have problems, but, frankly, you don't know what you're talking about. DoD is another level of hell away from typical corporate accounting problems. The books don't balance -- they don't have to balance. There's no auditing system in place. Nobody can really tell where the money is coming from or where it's going. Contractors with sweetheart deals sell and maintain systems long after they've gone obsolete. At one point during the 2003 invasion of Iraq, I heard from an inside source that some shipping containers were missing in-country and nobody could find them -- some tens of thousands of shipping containers.
I could go on, but I won't. This is something you really need to see for yourself to believe. This ain't WalMart or the mom-and-pop corner grocery store.
- mpyne 13y agoIt's OK though, we in the DoD will be audit ready... by like, FY-2016. sigh
- rayiner 13y agoI'm not saying the DOD's accounting systems don't have massive problems. I'm jabbing at the article for not giving us enough information to justify that conclusion. The article says that "he's not the only one with problems" but that means nothing given the scale of the operation. With 2.7 million payees, just a 0.01% annual error rate means hundreds of mistakes per year. That's the equivalent of Google messing up payroll for 5-6 people each year.
- xedeon 13y agoI've seen those containers everywhere! Just laying there rusting and collecting dust, while the DoD pays the shipping companies $7,400 for a container worth $3,200 because the contact was "rent-to-own"...