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Fake Receipt Generator: Brilliant or Baffling?
Nobody can have their steak and eat it, too, right? The creators of expenseasteak.com would disagree. The site's ethically questionable Maloney & Porcelli's Expense-a-Steak Headquarters tool allows you to enter any amount of money, and then generates several receipts that add up to your total.
Have You Ever Lied to Get Money From Someone?
Have You Ever Lied to Get Money From Someone?
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Family Finds $10,000 in Organic Crackers Box
Holding onto money is everyone's goal these days, yet one honest California family was eager to give back the envelope filled with $100 bills found in a box of crackers. Whole Foods is notorious for costly groceries that eat up our paychecks, but the Rogoff family unknowingly left the store $10,000 richer.
Instead of depositing the found money into a bank account, the Rogoffs called the police to report the booty found in a box of Annie's Sour Cream and Onion Cheddar Bunny crackers.
The Most and Least Honest Professions of 2008
Bankers just can't seem to cut a break this year — besides enduring an extremely tumultuous work environment, people are judging those in the banking profession as being less honest than previously thought. The group lost 12 percentage points from last year's annual Gallup poll that asks for respondents to rate the honesty and ethical standards of various fields, dropping bankers from their spot among the most well-rated professions in 2007 to a neutral rating.
Poll respondents evaluated the professions as having very high, high, average, low, or very low standards, and here are the results from the 2008 survey.
The Office's "Let's Get Ethical" Episode Tackles Time Theft
In the "Business Ethics" episode of The Office, Holly holds the type of business ethics seminar that could only take place at Dunder Mifflin. She starts the group off on a light note, reminding them that it's wrong to make personal calls during business hours and that spending a half hour at the water cooler is technically time theft, but Michael quickly ups the ante and offers "complete immunity" to anyone who shares their darkest workplace indiscretions.
Michael kicks off the troubling tell-all by admitting he didn't work for five days after discovering YouTube and watched Cookie Monster sings "Chocolate Rain" about 1,000 times.
What Would You Do? $500 For Dinner That You Didn't Eat
Group dining situations can introduce uncomfortable money moments from time to time, but I can't imagine being put on the spot for a $500 dinner bill like Tonya Bowman. She told her story to LifeWire, and it doesn't have a happy ending.
Tonya was invited to help celebrate her new acquaintance's birthday by attending a group sushi dinner.
Are You Disgusted With This Gold-Digging Great-Nephew?
A husband and father of two wrote to CNN Money's Do the Right Thing column, ultimately asking if he was nuts or if his wife was the crazy one. The guy's wife is disgusted with him for pushing their daughters to build a closer relationship with his elderly, childless great-aunt in hopes she will leave her fortune to them. He thinks it's a win-win situation: His great-aunt gets company and attention, and the girls will (hopefully) get a sizable inheritance.
Should a Wealthy Student Accept a Full Scholarship?
Money and ethics often go hand in hand, and this weekend Kiplinger featured a reader question involving these two very connected things. It doesn't involve anything scandalous like money laundering or embezzlement, in fact it's about something as innocent as education. She asked if her millionaire cousin's son should accept the full academic scholarship he was offered by their state university.
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Girl Scout Sells 17,328 Boxes of Delicious Cookies
Anyone who has ever spent time as a Girl Scout knows what a big deal cookie season is for the troops and also understands that selling 17,328 boxes of cookies is an impressive feat for one girl. Fifteen year-old Jennifer Sharpe sold this many boxes by setting up shop on a street corner with her mother, every day. My first thought: How many badges did she get for selling so many boxes?!
Should White House Guests Pay For Their Own Meals?
Times have changed. On two recent occasions, CEOs of prominent corporations were asked for their credit cards to pay for a White House lunch to which they were invited. Surely they expensed the mid-day meals to their company accounts, but the instances have made news because they're without precedent.
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