Sex Drugs and Dick Cheney? HR Uh-Oh!

Carl Hiassen reports on improprieties by government employees.

The following is a set of "best practices" which it would probably be best not to implement in your business, even though somebody had fun doing it...literally at tax payer expense.

In a column by Carl Hiassen of the Miami Herald (sourced from www.bnd.com) comes a "Tawdry tale of oil drillers and ‘MMS Chicks'.

According to Hiassen, the observation that says the Bush administration is always in bed with the oil companies turns out to be literally true.

The Interior Department has reported that some government officials in
charge of collecting oil and gas royalties smoked pot, snorted cocaine and had
sex with employees of big energy firms.

Meanwhile, the rest of us were getting screwed at the gas pump.

Last week, Congress heard how "a culture of ethical failure" in which
employees of the federal Minerals Management Service often accepted gifts from
oil and gas interests, peddled their influence, and partied hard with those with
whom they did business on behalf of the U.S. taxpayer.

The MMS collects about $10 billion annually in royalties from energy
companies that drill offshore and on federally owned lands. Beside the IRS, it's
one of the biggest sources of government revenue.

According to the Hiassen story, oil and gas companies named in the reports are Chevron, Hess, Shell Pipeline and Gary-Williams Energy. They paid for MMS workers to attend PGA golf tournaments, Major League Baseball and football games, ski trips, a Toby Keith concert, paintball-shooting events and "treasure hunts," whatever that means.

Hiassen goes on to opine the following;

"Who says that being a bureaucrat is dull work?Such colorful revelations
shed some light on the mysterious energy task force assembled by Vice President
Dick Cheney at the president's direction, shortly after he took office.

Cheney has stubbornly refused to tell American taxpayers what was decided
or who participated in these important meetings, though it's known that many
major players were involved, including those geniuses at Enron.

No wonder the vice president is so secretive about what took place.
Obviously these weren't serious policy meetings; they were toga parties, with
Cheney dressed up as Bluto from "Animal House.

"In their wildest dreams the boys from big oil couldn't have imagined how
much fun the next eight years would be - sex, drugs and "treasure hunts.

"Party on, dudes.

Drill your brains out."

Sounds like government work rocks....if you can get it.

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