We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning, from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
There are gambling addictions and then there are steal-$1.5 million-from-your-company-and-blow-it-all-on-video-poker-at-a-convenience-store addictions. In the case of Pat Janowski, who embezzled the cash while working as a bookkeeper at Cape Software, it is most definitely the latter.
Commenter Gary Packwood asked the obvious question:
What kind of business can lose $14 Grand a month and not know it?
Thieves suck answered him:
Cape Software in Spring.
Sometimes, the simple answer is the best.
This article appears in Mar 24-30, 2011.
