RANT: The government is stupid

[Linflas]

Originally posted by: Brutuskend
The biggest shock is that this comes are a surprise to you.

I take it you never served in the military? :shocked:

Oddly enough the best contracts I ever worked on were DoD contracts with the Navy. There was not nearly the same amount of BS I encountered when working for non-DoD federal agencies.

 

[DaShen]

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: torpid

Originally posted by: Doboji

Originally posted by: torpid
Yeah, the point being that it's not just the government that is stupid! That's insulting to those of us who have/do work for stupid private companies!

Fair enough... but your rant should be...

Private industry sucks too... not... you suck for generalizing that the Govt sucks.

No, because not all private companies suck. And not all government agencies suck. Your generalization is based on the assumption that it isn't true everywhere, otherwise it's redudant. Like saying white people have hair when all people tend to have hair.

Well I really think Government tends to suck more than private industry... call me prejudiced if you'd like...

Its true

 

[Doboji]

UPDATE 8/2:

Said SAN based Exchange environment implementation has been delayed 1 year.... and yet I am still required to be onsite everyday... and now I *officially* don't have anything to work on.

sheesh

 

[So]

This thread is officially ruined by the ridiculously wide post above.

 

[Doboji]

Originally posted by: So
This thread is officially ruined by the ridiculously wide post above.

Sounds like a browser problem

 

[CrackRabbit]

You need to become Wally from Dilbert. Just sit around, drink coffee and collect a paycheck, while doing nothing and making it look hard.

 

[PingSpike]

Originally posted by: So
This thread is officially ruined by the ridiculously wide post above.

Agreed.



OP...when life gives you lemons. In this case you're still going to get paid right?

 

[Saint Nick]

I have some stories about government waste for you:

I worked over at STRATCOM in 2004. I worked in facility management... meaning we just fixed broken stuff and did the stuff that others didn't want to do. We had to go over to "Building D"--an old hangar that was turned into AFWA (Air Force Weather Agency) and some other junk. Anyway, we worked in this old hangar cleaning these old file cabinets, desks, and chairs. It was a joke. Inside of one particular warehouse we were in, were several large, oak and mahogany desks. The huge "businessman/CEO" type of desks. These things were used a little, but still in fine condition. They were stacked to the ceiling. They ended up destroying them later on. I'd estimate these desks to be around the $5,000 mark. Then, in the back of this warehouse, were dozens upon dozens of leather office chairs. The price tags were still on these--$1,200 each.

The employees around here are all lazy and they all complain. I'm not generalizing. People show up to work late and leave early. People have no regard for what we are here for. No one cares.

There is computer equipment that sits in offices and back rooms that go unused, still brand new in their boxes. Some stuff is used.

This is just in one warehouse, in one building, on one military base in the world. Think how much more this is happening. So much stuff unaccounted for. So much wasted money. There was easily $50,000 worth of stuff in this one warehouse I was in. I could have drove off the base with one of those chairs and no one would care.