Walter T. Davey sits in a non-flight mockup of the Apollo CSM (Command and Service Module) while conducting engineering design reviews with NASA crewmembers in Downey, Calif. in 1969.From MSNBC:
40 years later, whistle-blower still unable to force accounting change
In 1969, an aeronautical engineer at North American Rockwell discovered a discrepancy in his paycheck: Every hour, he was being overpaid by roughly 2 cents, or one-third of 1 percent of his pay.
Spurred by an incentive program that rewarded employees for finding wasteful spending, Walter T. Davey submitted the discovery to his superiors and suggested a simple fix.
“It was so simple to correct,” said Davey, a 79-year-old retired Air Force colonel now living in Newport Coast, Calif., “just change a few digits in the coding software.”
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My Comment: The bean counters are probably going to rule the universe one day .... so we might as well get use to it.