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Adventures of a Modern Day, Middle-Aged Hero, on the Glory Road(to family security)

5.11.2012

Maybe you got a wee bit greedy...

There was a story in the Seattle Times this morning about an ex-State Patrol Lieutenant who is facing some charges for potentially padding his paychecks with a little bit of extra overtime.

Ex-trooper charged with official misconduct for overtime pay

First off...sometimes, when you are going to be a heinous violator, you need to use some common sense.  If you are going to lie about how much OT you are working, you might want to think about showing a little discretion, and not making yourself the HIGHEST PAID State Trooper by a margin of OVER $20,000.  That kind of attracts some unwanted attention.

I'm not picking on the State Patrol here.  This kind of thing happens EVERYWHERE.  The Hanford site where I work has been dealing with a pretty bad case of this that came to light a few years ago(predating my time, luckily), resulting in jail time for several folks.  Rest assured, it happening at all levels of Government, and it's been happening for EVER.

I also think you are going to start hearing about it a lot more.  As budgets continue to tighten up, auditors are going to be going over expenditures with a fine tooth comb, and you're going to have to a lot more employees having to justify what's written on their time cards. 

It's a good time to be on the up and up. 

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