GPS devices on government vehicles nail workers loafing

I thought that is what government employees were paid to do, waste tax payer money.

Let me guess to install all the GPS devices to watch employee waste it only cost $89 million dollars?

Well, the government always requires mil-spec products, so it was only $16,388 per GPS. You know, about the cost of two toilet seats.

Fraud, waste, and abuse were big issues when I was in the service. I retired from the USN in 1990. My complaint then, and now, is that they don't practice what they preach. Politicans are the ones that should be reported for fraud, waste, and abuse. Any comments?

Maybe the government should check out some Black Friday Sales next week!

Got a family member in the gov. He is an agent. I don't know about the waste for sure, but I can say the perks are only a marvel.

I say Mark Twain didn't go for enough...
First thing we do is kill all the lawyers..
Next thing we do is kill all politicians.

I vote it's time for a Boston Tea Party again. Redlight cameras are taxation without representation.
Politicians only look out for themselves. Their only purpose is to get re-elected or have enough money to buy their way in... look at Kennedy.

I am beginning to think our government is a joke. Sad to say that, but I am beginning to wonder if it's not true.

oops... you don't think I got pegged now as being a terrorist because I spoke openly do you?
(....looks around cautiously...with knees shaking...)
ouchie douchie!

I found the article interesting as I worked for the Suffolk County Health Dept. for 34 years and my food establishment inspection territory included the township of Islip. When I became a supervisor, employee abuse of official cars and inappropriate activites while on duty was an issue for me.

I think this is a form of invasion of privacy but I also believe employees should be doing their jobs and not shopping on company time. I don't see a problem with them using their lunch hours and coffee breaks for personal activities. One cannot expect an employee to work on their lunch hours.

If the employees were shopping on company time, I believe then that tracking is OK to stop the unapproved activities of the employee. However, there should be a chance for the employee to make restitution and have a second chance. My two cents!

And they understand those rules, then I'm not one for any "second chances". We are all big boys and girls and if you accept an employer's paycheck, you should do what they ask of you to run their business, even if it's the government. Using the "companys" time or material for unauthorized personal use is technically theft.

my 2-cents

dd

"Here's my strategy on the Cold War: We win, they lose."

- Ronald Reagan

"The most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the government and I'm here to help."

- Ronald Reagan

"The trouble with our liberal friends is not that they're ignorant; it's just that they know so much that isn't so."

- Ronald Reagan

"Of the four wars in my lifetime, none came about because the U.S. was too strong."

- Ronald Reagan

"I have wondered at times about what the Ten Commandments would have looked like if Moses had run them through the U.S. Congress."

- Ronald Reagan

"The taxpayer: That's someone who works for the federal government but doesn't have to take the civil service examination."

- Ronald Reagan

"Government is like a baby: An alimentary canal with a big appetite at one end and no sense of responsibility at the other."

- Ronald Reagan

"The nearest thing to eternal life we will ever see on this earth is a government program."

- Ronald Reagan

"I've laid down the law, though, to everyone from now on about anything that happens: no matter what time it is, wake me, even if it's in the middle of a Cabinet meeting."

- Ronald Reagan

"It has been said that politics is the second oldest profession. I have learned that it bears a striking resemblance to the first."

- Ronald Reagan

"Government's view of the economy could be summed up in a few short phrases: If it moves, tax it. If it keeps moving, regulate it. And if it stops moving, subsidize it."

- Ronald Reagan

Maybe we need to find another great actor to be president???

What's a Gibber?

According to Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, "gibber" = "to speak rapidly, inarticulately and often foolishly".

I think you meant Gipper.

Surely you're not implying Reagan was a "gibber" now...

"Win one for the Gipper!"

http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/win-one-for-the-gipper.ht...

Yep, you guys are right... I did mean Gipper.

But it really wasn't me... you see it was my mumskull fingers that did the typing on that. lol

Let's quit now before this thread gets ugly.

this chatty kathy thread is better then reading the Sunday funnies:P

now there is a good topic, what is your favorite comic? Mine has always been blonde and dagwood

Miss Poi

Sure you didn't mean "Numbskull" fingers ?

Badda boom

My faves:
BC
Dilbert
Frank & Ernest
Herman
Prickly City
Hagar
Mallard Fillmore
Mother Goose & Grimm

Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, Far Side. I don't look at the paper anymore, but Get Fuzzy has made me laugh a few times.

Too bad the Cartoon museum closed.

Don't be fooled into thinking that you have any right to privacy on on your employers property, using their equipment or using their email, etc.

I have always told my kids that we live in a great democracy, but for two places . . . home and work. That's where we must do as we are asked as long as we are there.

Bill

I think you are right about home and work. But I would add one more... church.
No place, no way, no how do I find that people can do what they want in the church.

yet, they do.

Kids rebel against parents. Workers rebel against the company and people rebel against God.

Let's face it, we live in a rebellious world.

Oh, thats easy, its Bush and Cheney, although I dont really find them funny at all.

Like I said, it would get ugly, and it just did.

and I thought it was just an interesting use of the technology