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[nitsuj3580]

I had one for all of a day, then it got taken from me

I know, I know, I'm still a rookie I'll get mine in a few months. (found out I work down the hall from Sohcrates. haha)

 

[jarsoffart]

My sister worked for the USGS and said that whenever they needed something they just went out and bought it for whatever price. They spent like 200 bucks on a burner and lots of LCD's. They also have a drawer of 20 boxes of 8-10 pack of Sharpies. Why does the government waste so much mon, like that thing with those Bose Noise-cancelling headphones? Do they research what they buy before they buy? It seems they waste a lot of money on frivolous things. Could someone affirm or correct my views? Is it really that bad?

 

[SuperSix]

Wanna sell the printer?

 

[AvesPKS]

The guv'ment does make poor fiscal choices, but what you guys don't realize a lot of times is that when you purchase things for the government, you can't just buy things from wherever (even if that means paying a higher price). A company has to have a GSA schedule set up before we can buy anything from them. And then there's the matter of products having to come from a preapproved list set up by some of our tech people. I spent a portion of my summer searching for a monitor from List A being sold by a company from List B. And, for the most part, government budgets don't roll over (fortunately, ours did ), and what you don't spend gets taken away from next year's budget.

Well I do work for the Federal Goverment and let me tell you there is some end of fiscal year spending, but it is nothing like that. What we splurg on is maybe replacing some of our super fast P266's with 1.2Ghz if we are lucky. We have 1 flat panel monitor in the facility and that is Air Traffic Manager.

What do you work for? My mom's a budget person for FAA in headquarters.

 

[bunker]

Heh..I work for the gov't as well. The head sys admin came into my office friday and said "we have $50,000.00 to spend by the end of the day".

I'm also getting a new machine and 21" flat panel

 

[Eli]

Originally posted by: bunker
Heh..I work for the gov't as well. The head sys admin came into my office friday and said "we have $50,000.00 to spend by the end of the day".

I'm also getting a new machine and 21" flat panel

Bah.. it's so stupid..

 

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI

I hate corporate america. everything is designed to revolve around a select group of egos, and they base decisions on gut feelings, color coordination, handshakes, and smells.

/rant sorry!

C'mon man, you KNOW all businesses aren't like that. Don't make matters worse. As a Business Management major, I don't agree with whoever made that move at your company and would have done one of your suggestions, like a raise AND a picnic. With door prizes. On a company (or branch/division)-wide free holiday. Maybe everyone gets a RAM upgrade in their workstations too the following week. But wasting it on Blackberries and shock-proof laptops? Blasphemy! :|

Just don't blame Corporate America for your company's troubles- 99% of corporations are very well managed. It's the bastardized 1% who spends their budgets like your example and that has been making the news in the last year.

I hate to say it, by it's alot more than 1%.
Out of the thirty or so friends I have that work in various companies, ALL of them have likely stories about 3rdQ sprees. As a matter of fact, their friends all have the same stories, and their friends friends, heck I'd be more apt to say that the only companies who DONT behave this way are the companies who don't have the budgets to do so....

 

[Balthazar]

Originally posted by: NightFlyerGTI
^ Investing that budget BACK into the company certainly wouldn't be a bad idea either.

In todays corporate climate they are more apt to take handfulls of cash into the executive restrooms and flush them one bill at a time than to actually invest the money into something usefull.

Welcome to the new economy. Where computers have made finacialmatters for corporations MUCH easier. Used to be you actually had to go back through and edit all the numbers in the books, to make things right (or wrong) but now, now a quick backspace here and there and viola....well within budget.

 

[Mavrick007]

Hehe The Government Auditors should have a field day checking the books for the "last minute" shopping habits of certain departments. Management in government is the same everywhere and it's not for the better. It's true that budgets will be cut if they aren't spent but when it comes down to people starving and other people without jobs, it makes me sick to think that someone was worried that they might not get to spend the tax payers money in time so they had to make frivolous choices when they obviously weren't needed. If it was a privately run company then that would be their perogative to spend their money but even they have to answer to creditors and investors. Government supposedly has your best interests in mind but I really don't see how getting the overpriced "toy" that they spent helps cut the deficit or back on taxation. The more the government spends, the more it will keep demanding from the people as well.. something to think about.