In other news, water is wet. This has been a time-honored practice (along with cost-plus) for decades.
I used to work for a defense contractor. My favorite time of the month, was when some manager from a completely different division, would come by, and give me a time sheet to fill out.
Did you at least get paid for the extra “time” or was it purely going to the company?
Makes me wonder how the manager (or anyone else doing a similar thing) justified to themselves that doing this sort of thing was ok, since most people don’t like the idea that they’re just straight up committing fraud.
It was straight-up fraud. I passed it by a friend, who told me the deal. My time was billed on a cost-plus contract. I could have gotten in trouble for filling those out. By the time I figured it out, they stopped it.
No, I didn't get paid for it. Back then, I was a junior test engineer, and was getting paid peanuts (which was probably why they had me do it. I'm sure that the hourly rate for me was upped a wee bit). I wasn't working on any particular contract, myself, as we were sort of "floaters," at the time.
I used to work for a defense contractor. My favorite time of the month, was when some manager from a completely different division, would come by, and give me a time sheet to fill out.