Hellfire
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| posted on 27/7/07 at 12:31 AM |
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NASA Laptop excuses
Public spending watchdogs in the US have slammed NASA for having such terrible property control procedures that employees have "lost" $94m
worth of kit in the last decade.
It says the agency does not have "effective control" over the $35bn of property that it reports on in its financial statements.
It cites one employee who excused himself (or herself) of losing a laptop worth $4,000 with the explanation that the machine had burned up in the
atmosphere.
The lost equipment report included the following explanation: "This computer, although assigned to me, was being used on board the International
Space Station. I was informed that it was tossed overboard to be burned up in the atmosphere when it failed."
Well, that sounds perfectly reasonable to us...certainly it is hard to see how the computer could be recovered.
Other excuses the beancounters were unhappy about included the classic "I borrowed it for my wife and never got a receipt when I gave it
back", "I lent it to someone but forget who", and the immortal: "We looked everywhere, but couldn't find it". This
last one related to 65 items worth a total of $850,000.
All genuine excuses from HERE
Steve
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 27/7/07 at 12:47 AM |
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"Your tax dollars (no longer) at work"? 
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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britishtrident
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| posted on 27/7/07 at 07:30 AM |
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They should sign up for Orange !
[I] “ What use our work, Bennet, if we cannot care for those we love? .”
― From BBC TV/Amazon's Ripper Street.
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Catpuss
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| posted on 27/7/07 at 05:25 PM |
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They could have just been too drunk and left it in Hooters on the way to flight check.
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