Walter T. Davey sits in a non-flight mockup of the Apollo CSM (Command and Service Module) while conducting engineering design reviews with NASA crewmembers in Downey, Calif. in 1969.From MSNBC:
40 years later, whistle-blower still unable to force accounting change
In 1969, an aeronautical engineer at North American Rockwell discovered a discrepancy in his paycheck: Every hour, he was being overpaid by roughly 2 cents, or one-third of 1 percent of his pay.
Spurred by an incentive program that rewarded employees for finding wasteful spending, Walter T. Davey submitted the discovery to his superiors and suggested a simple fix.
“It was so simple to correct,” said Davey, a 79-year-old retired Air Force colonel now living in Newport Coast, Calif., “just change a few digits in the coding software.”
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My Comment: The bean counters are probably going to rule the universe one day .... so we might as well get use to it.
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Actually, this story is much more a case of the US Government ripping off their employees than contractors ripping off the government.
The issue here is how are you paid, in terms of time? The US Government defines a yearly salary, and they have adopted an hourly wage calculation method that literally extracts one free day of work out of every employee for leap day, but spreads it out over the other three years by reducing your pay that small amount each hour.
Most government contractors use the much more common sense method of paying people in terms of a weekly amount, which removes the leap day issue from the equation, as it should be!
Why should someone be expected to work leap day for free? And why should that free day be spread out over the other three years, when you may or may not be employed for the leap day in question?
No, the Government figured out this sneaky trick nearly 30 years ago, and I'm just surprised nobody has called them on this fraud against their employees before now!
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