Tammi's World

How?

Ok. Let's look at this for a just a moment. I have a laptop from work. I had to sign for it. I'm responsible for it. If it gets "lost" it's MY problem. And I can promise you if more than one laptop were to disappear throughout our company alarm bells would be ringing.

So help me understand how 1,100 laptops can be just now DISCOVERED missing from the Commerce Department since 2001. Folks - that's only 5 years. That's something like 220 laptops gone every year.

And it's JUST NOW being reported?!?!

And it's the Commerce Department. What kind of info could be involved here? "...including nearly 250 from the Census Bureau containing such personal information as names, incomes and Social Security numbers, ....."

And that's only what has been reported by one of the 10 departments that have been asked to look into this info. Here's an encouraging comment:

Of the 10 departments that have responded, the losses at Commerce are "by far the most egregious," said David Marin, staff director for the committee. He added that the silence of the remaining seven departments could reflect their reluctance to reveal problems of similar magnitude.

ACCOUNTABILITY. That's what I'm talking about. I don't care who you are, where you work, what you do - everyone needs to be accountable for that which is within their scope. Again - if I lost a laptop I'd have to report it to someone. Along with what the hell happened. And I promise, if we were looking at losing 220 laptops a year there would be an investigation. And I just deal in kids toys!!!

This is just unflippin' believable. It pisses me off more than I am capable of documenting in writing. All I know is someone, somewhere better figure out what the hell happened and why. Than kick some ass.

Posted by Tammi at September 24, 2006 08:42 AM | TrackBack