City Officials Claim $21 Million Worth Of Missing Paperclips
The City of Philadelphia, shining example of efficiency and organization that it is, is missing up to $21 million worth of office supplies and equipment.
How does the city keep track of all of them? Apparently it doesn’t, as the NBC 10 Investigators discovered thousands of items are missing.
These documents are part of a 500-page report obtained from the city controller’s office. The report lists every single missing item and bottom-lines the dollar value.
The findings come from a city audit of 47 departments. The dollar value of the missing items is $21 million…
Referring to a list of hundreds of missing laptops and cell phones, Butkovitz said each employee must be held accountable.
“An item like that, that is easily portable and that is that easy to sell on the street, you have got to be serious about protecting that as part of the city’s inventory,” he said.
So let us get this right, the city doesn’t keep track of what they buy for employees, employees are supplementing their incomes selling said items on the street, and somehow no one has mentioned John Street’s iPhone in any of this? We have a solution, instead of letting employees get nice new cell phones that can be sold for cash, issue them all bag phones from 1990. And instead of laptops give them some old desktop Gateways from the same year. This way, no one will want to steal anything, all the work they need to do can get done, and we can all laugh at the city employee with the huuuuuuge cell phone. Everyone wins!
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