Blood on the Highway

Many folks who took a driver's training class as a teenager in the US remember a film called "Blood on the Highway" (or some variation thereof).  This classic took the "scared straight" approach to encouraging safe motoring, showing graphic images of car wrecks complete with mangled bodies and whatnot.  I'm reminded of that film as I sit this afternoon in a "Managers and the Law" training session.  The first 2/3 of the class was focused on typical HR legal stuff, but the final third was all about fraud prevention that worked as a sort of corporate version of "Blood on the Highway." Microsoft is very proactive about preventing fraud and we actually enjoy a pretty good track record in this regard, so I can't help but wonder if this training is one of the reasons.  It was taught by a member of our Financial Integrity Unit (who, not surprisingly, spent 25 years as a Federal Agent) and included red flags managers much watch for, slides of Tyco and Enron execs doing the perp walk, and stories of the worlds of misfortune that have befallen frausters great and small.  I've officially decided to limit my sketchy activities to using the occasional ballpoint pen for personal purposes.  :)

Comments

• Anonymous
  June 06, 2006
  > Microsoft is very proactive about preventing fraud
  
  Customers, who read a contract asserting that a product will work substantially in accordance with its documentation for a period of 90 days, who get the runaround from Microsoft and who are told by OEMs that OEMs cannot deliver Microsoft's fixes to customers, will be left with the impression that your statement is another instance of Microsoft as usual.
  
  How's this version:  Microsoft is very proactive about preventing fraud when Microsoft wouldn't be the beneficiary.