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Pilot fish is working for a defense contractor when he gets the job of creating reports to break down company spending -- and for a very specific purpose.
"These reports broke down where the company was spending how much money with vendors, and for which defense-related program -- radar, satellite, whatever," says fish.
"In accumulating the purchase-order data, certain anomalies became obvious -- like the snow removal contract for one of the plants, which showed a cost of $39 million for one year. That turned out to be a data-entry error.
"Once I had produced the reports and tweaked them for use, I asked the purpose. Turns out the reports were going to be used for lobbying.
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