Sad but true - collecting addiction

[sreader3]

Originally Posted by raulus

If any of the lawyers know how to look up a case, there is some detail here that identifies the case number:

https://www.justice.gov/usao-az/pr/f...d-theft-agency

I'm guessing there must be a list of allegations identifying a lot more detail about his misdeeds.

Yeah, I read it. He worked a side gig for Amazon, Uber and Lyft with his government car. Certainly not admirable but a minor offense compared to what is not prosecuted these days in major cities. At least he was providing a service. Not a typical hobby fraudster.

[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by sreader3

Yeah, I read it. He worked a side gig for Amazon, Uber and Lyft with his government car. Certainly not admirable but a minor offense compared to what is not prosecuted these days in major cities. At least he was providing a service. Not a typical hobby fraudster.

As someone who served our country he gets slack from me.

Can we go after the unproductive, under qualified, redundant, government employees that hide in their cubicles and collect a paycheck with full retirement instead?

Or let's look at Congressional shysters from both sides of the aisle that get rich on insider legislation information in the stock market. Can we toss a few of those in jail?

Don't get me started...

[bbcard1]

I had it happen to a friend of mine. He was a banker, good guy. I sold him cards at my shop and when I started my ad agency my partner needed the cash to fund his half of the seed money. It was like $5000 and all the banks wouldn't do it because my partner's credit really was in the toilet. My friend said, it's not that much, I know you, I can make the loan. He got addicted to busting wax. Lost his job and family and ended up in jail. Last time I saw him he was working at Lowes...nothing wrong with working at Lowes, but he was on track to a good career before wax busting got its hooks in him.

[Huck]

According to the article, he started small using the government car for side gigs; as time went on, working the side gigs became a full-time job while collecting a government paycheck. Small potatoes perhaps, but he was not doing his job. He only hurt himself and the taxpayers.

"Federal prosecutors say that over the next two years, Nelson, a father of four, regularly worked his other jobs while he was on the clock as an investigator, during which time he frequently used his government-issued car to deliver packages and ferry ride-share passengers. He also had the government pay for the gas."

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

As someone who served our country he gets slack from me.



Can we go after the unproductive, under qualified, redundant, government employees that hide in their cubicles and collect a paycheck with full retirement instead?



Or let's look at Congressional shysters from both sides of the aisle that get rich on insider legislation information in the stock market. Can we toss a few of those in jail?



Don't get me started...

I heard an interesting factoid the other day. The summary is that for any company, the number of people actually doing the work is the square root of the total number of employees. So if you've got 10 people in the office, 3 do all the work. If you have 1000, then 30 do all the work. The rest just collect their paychecks.

Based on the companies I worked for, I would say that's about right.

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[Casey2296]

Originally Posted by Gorditadogg

I heard an interesting factoid the other day. The summary is that for any company, the number of people actually doing the work is the square root of the total number of employees. So if you've got 10 people in the office, 3 do all the work. If you have 1000, then 30 do all the work. The rest just collect their paychecks.

Based on the companies I worked for, I would say that's about right.

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Also known as the Pareto Principle.

[Gorditadogg]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

Also known as the Pareto Principle.

An offshoot, I guess. The Pareto Principle is basically the 80/20 rule, which is also true I think. For every company I worked for (except maybe Burger King, I didn't keep track back then) 80% of our revenues came from 20% of our clients.

The Pareto Rule applies outside of work too. Probably your top 20% of cards make up 80% of the value of your collection.

By the way, to be more precise on the square-root rule, the top few do HALF the work, not all. So in my example of a 1000 person company, the top 30 would do half the total work, the 970 would do the other half. So not freeloaders, just not as valuable.

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[jingram058]

Originally Posted by Casey2296

As someone who served our country he gets slack from me.

Can we go after the unproductive, under qualified, redundant, government employees that hide in their cubicles and collect a paycheck with full retirement instead?

Or let's look at Congressional shysters from both sides of the aisle that get rich on insider legislation information in the stock market. Can we toss a few of those in jail?

Don't get me started...

+1 on everything you say.