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Friday, January 25, 2008

Oops

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When Marie Lupe Cooley, 41, of Jacksonville, Fla., saw a help-wanted ad in the newspaper for a position that looked suspiciously like her current job — and with her boss's phone number listed — she assumed she was about to be fired.
So, police say, she went to the architectural office where she works late Sunday night and erased 7 years' worth of drawings and blueprints, estimated to be worth $2.5 million.


And here is the oops part.

As for the job, Cooley originally wasn't in danger of losing it. The ad was for Hutchins' wife's company.


This is kinda funny, but there is something else I would like to point out in this article. He stated that he was hiring someone for his wife’s company. What was probably happening is he was setting up a separate company under his wife’s name so that he could get minority government bids. The dirty little secret is that many companies have another one listed under a woman’s name so they can bid as a minority company. All the work is done by the same people, but under the other companies name. Truth be told, I can’t blame them.

1 Comments:

Blogger Jar(egg)head said...

A HUB (Historically Underutilized Businesses) requirement is a surefire way to get a really crappy building. If a bid requires HUB participation, I simply don't bid it. Generally, you're right; most HUB jobs are run by shell companies backed by reputable firms. It's an open "secret" in the industry, little more than a political sop for the ignoramuses in the press to fawn about.

Interesting fact: HUB was originally going to be Minority Owned Businesses... until someone figured out that MOB participation was already rampant in the construction industry.

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