{"id":933,"date":"2007-05-18T07:05:28","date_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:05:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-lack-of-ethics\/"},"modified":"2007-05-18T07:05:29","modified_gmt":"2007-05-18T12:05:29","slug":"a-lack-of-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-lack-of-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lack Of Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I didn&#8217;t know government workers were ever fired.&nbsp; Then I read this CareerJournal.com story&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/feeds.careerjournal.com\/~r\/wsj\/career_journal\/~3\/117099740\/20070516-karp.html\" target=\"_blank\">At the Pentagon, Employees Fill &#8216;Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure&#8217;<\/a>.&nbsp; The gist of the story is that this Pentagon lawyer keeps a website of ethical violations that occur within the government sector.<\/p>\n<p>Some humorous examples:<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>-Take the case of the Customs and Border Protection officer who landed a government helicopter on his daughter&#8217;s grade-school playground&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>-Two Veterans Affairs bureaucrats were charged with overbilling the government and receiving kickbacks from a supplier. &#8220;The product?&#8221; Mr. Epstein dryly notes: &#8220;Red tape.&#8221; It was more than 100,000 rolls of a special type used to prevent tampering with prescription-drug orders.<\/p>\n<p>-Then there&#8217;s the &#8220;links-loving Vice Admiral,&#8221; who sponsored a private golf tournament on government time and awarded prizes solicited from defense contractors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>What a great idea for exposing these transgressions while using humor to make a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First off, I didn&#8217;t know government workers were ever fired.&nbsp; Then I read this CareerJournal.com story&nbsp;At the Pentagon, Employees Fill &#8216;Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure&#8217;.&nbsp; The gist of the story is that this Pentagon lawyer keeps a website of ethical violations that occur within the government sector. Some humorous examples: -Take the case of the Customs and Border Protection officer who landed a government helicopter on his daughter&#8217;s grade-school playground&#8230; -Two Veterans Affairs bureaucrats were charged with overbilling the government and receiving kickbacks from a supplier. &#8220;The product?&#8221; Mr. Epstein dryly notes: &#8220;Red tape.&#8221; It was more than 100,000 rolls of a special type used to prevent tampering with prescription-drug orders.&hellip; <a class=\"read-more\" href=\"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-lack-of-ethics\/\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"bgseo_title":"","bgseo_description":"","bgseo_robots_index":"","bgseo_robots_follow":"","_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-933","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-team-management"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1716,"url":"http:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2008\/08\/public-sector-efficiency\/","url_meta":{"origin":933,"position":0},"title":"Public Sector Efficiency","author":"Derrick Moe","date":"August 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This abcnews.com article will tweak every Utilitarian out there (my editing): The federal government has 2.6 million civilian workers, making it the nation's largest employer. 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