{"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":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/2007\/05\/a-lack-of-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lack Of Ethics"},"content":{"rendered":"

First off, I didn’t know government workers were ever fired. Then I read this CareerJournal.com story At the Pentagon, Employees Fill ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’<\/a>. The gist of the story is that this Pentagon lawyer keeps a website of ethical violations that occur within the government sector.<\/p>\n

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-Take the case of the Customs and Border Protection officer who landed a government helicopter on his daughter’s grade-school playground…<\/p>\n
-Two Veterans Affairs bureaucrats were charged with overbilling the government and receiving kickbacks from a supplier. “The product?” Mr. Epstein dryly notes: “Red tape.” It was more than 100,000 rolls of a special type used to prevent tampering with prescription-drug orders.<\/p>\n
-Then there’s the “links-loving Vice Admiral,” who sponsored a private golf tournament on government time and awarded prizes solicited from defense contractors.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n
What a great idea for exposing these transgressions while using humor to make a point.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
First off, I didn’t know government workers were ever fired. Then I read this CareerJournal.com story At the Pentagon, Employees Fill ‘Encyclopedia of Ethical Failure’. 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’s grade-school playground… -Two Veterans Affairs bureaucrats were charged with overbilling the government and receiving kickbacks from a supplier. “The product?” Mr. Epstein dryly notes: “Red tape.” It was more than 100,000 rolls of a special type used to prevent tampering with prescription-drug orders.… 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_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_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","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5Oho-f3","jetpack-related-posts":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=933"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/933\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=933"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=933"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/selectmetrix.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=933"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}