Part of my job is dealing with internal audit functions at least on a monthly basis. I hate it, everyone hates it. Even if you are doing your job well it feels like a useless drag on productivity nipping at your heels all the time looking for gotchas.

I think vast majority of government bureaucrats are not involved in any sort of fraud but even so, having auditors come in and expose years of something being wrong is a bad look. Seniors tend to finger point and there is always someone who's at fault.

There probably is willful fraud and there's probably even more simple carelessness especially in government where there is no direct incentive (monetary) to cross all the t's and dot all the i's. So many errors and issues i encounter is bad system design, controls design, outdated quality checks and so on, i bet it's infinitely worse at some government agencies.

This post was edited by ofthevoid on Apr 20 2026 12:55pm

I wish it worked out and we had the equivalent in Canada. And I do mean the actual concept / idea of DOGE, I felt this one was selling the concept more as a political tool than actual intentions to execute.

OftheVoid mentioned carelessness.

This is the Canadian issue. There's no incentive to actually followup or deepdive into who or what you are funding. Projects are often a sham, especially on the smaller contribution / funding agreements that are hundreds of thousands not millions, but in aggregate those add up. You toss together an annual report maybe quarterly report with some pictures and fire that off the the funders to satisfy the reporting requirements in the agreement.

Simply look at advice given online on accounting or finance forums. Want better work life balance or to not have to work as hard, go to governments. There's no bonus structure, no fast track promotions. An annual step increase in salary performing good or bad for the most part. So if you're someone in a department who has to hand out X money before March 31 with no real incentive to make sure its well spent, it wont be. Get it done and go home at 4:30. Government isn't attracting superstars here, private gobles them up with higher compensation and fast track opportunities. You look into some government departments and i've never seen such a mash up of odd bottom the barrel individuals who can't get fired.

Ive done internal audit and external audit roles in my life and its a joke.

This post was edited by SBD on Apr 20 2026 01:09pm

Hmm wonder why the government doesn't care about mass fraud. Tapping this sign again.

Can you figure out my art ?

Big time 😅

I'm going to start thinking of you as a pedophile tbh, since you seem to think its fine that people are getting allegations with actual video proof of potential fraud.

hello nazi

At this point in time....that might just happen to be a compliment.