Government Waste and Corruption thread

[BloodStripe]

GSA owns and operates a website called SAM.gov. It’s where the Government posts all solicitations and award notices to. The jobs that ran the site were eliminated under DOGE. The website is currently down with no known fix time. Guess you can’t spend money if you can’t post in accordance with law.

 

[AWP]

GSA owns and operates a website called SAM.gov. It’s where the Government posts all solicitations and award notices to. The jobs that ran the site were eliminated under DOGE. The website is currently down with no known fix time. Guess you can’t spend money if you can’t post in accordance with law.

I'm in the site right now or is some functionality disabled?

Home | SAM.gov

 

[BloodStripe]

I'm in the site right now or is some functionality disabled?

Home | SAM.gov

It’s back up. It wouldn’t allow you to log in. The site would load but when you went to further than that, nothing.

 

[BloodStripe]

Is the Easter Egg hunt on the White House lawn considered essential? People are being RIF’d and yet here we are seeing sign ups for it.

 

[BloodStripe]

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/slicing-pizza-musks-infamous-email-153945200.html

They have not been happy about this.

"Ours is a system built on democracy, safeguards, and protections provided by contracts that must be respected," Bombardieri told the Times.“

I rewrote that to say what they actually do and think.

"Ours is a system built on laziness, nepotism, and protections provided by threats of going outside the chain of command," Bombardieri told the Times.

 

[Florida173]

GSA owns and operates a website called SAM.gov. It’s where the Government posts all solicitations and award notices to. The jobs that ran the site were eliminated under DOGE. The website is currently down with no known fix time. Guess you can’t spend money if you can’t post in accordance with law.

Up now? So not really much of a disaster I suppose. Wonder how it got back up if they eliminated all the jobs that were running the site..

 

[BloodStripe]

Up now? So not really much of a disaster I suppose. Wonder how it got back up if they eliminated all the jobs that were running the site..

I mean it was down 7 hours. How they solved it? Not sure. Don’t care really. Like you said it came back.

The point remains though that this administration hasn’t really thought anything beyond step one. Looking at just the DOD how many follow on “guidance” or “updates” has the SECDEF had to send because hasty decisions were made in the name of great political theater? I have a guy living in his house whose HHG was already picked up to PCS only to be told less than a week before moving there’s a hiring freeze and now he can’t travel. Now he’s sleeping on an air mattress for almost a month and has had to go buy a bunch of random shit like cooking things. If he got his stuff back he’d be on the hook to pay for it.

I want to be clear, I agree we need cuts. But this is the largest business in the US. It’s not going out of business tomorrow if you take today to properly plan which hasn’t happened. Instead we are left with disasters all over where the mess needs picked up and additional guidance needs sent.

The 7 p’s - Prior proper planning prevents piss poor performance.

 

[Florida173]

The point remains though that this administration hasn’t really thought anything beyond step one. Looking at just the DOD how many follow on “guidance” or “updates” has the SECDEF had to send because hasty decisions were made in the name of great political theater? I have a guy living in his house whose HHG was already picked up to PCS only to be told less than a week before moving there’s a hiring freeze and now he can’t travel. Now he’s sleeping on an air mattress for almost a month and has had to go buy a bunch of random shit like cooking things. If he got his stuff back he’d be on the hook to pay for it.

These are all independent moving parts though. So Administration can take responsibility, sure, but when it comes to the actual execution of anything it's still these same systems that we're trying to make more efficient failing to deliver as always.

Your guy with the hiring freeze is a thing that happens completely independent of this. I was one of a lot of people that were effected by the CENTCOM hiring freeze way back in the day. Exact same thing you described happened to a friend of mine as she was half way completely moved. I was local to Tampa already and just ended up going to SOCOM instead, so definitely worked out for me. It sucks, and not saying the recent things are a direct result for his current predicament, just that it isn't a thing that doesn't happen anyway.

 

[BloodStripe]

I’m not following how a guy who accepted a job, got PCS orders, shipped HHG (luckily not his car yet) is independent of these rash decisions that are being made? If there’s history of bad decision in the hiring freeze process you would think someone would say hey learn from our failure. It is one example of many that I can easily pull from personal experience where clearly no thought went into any planning beyond what sounds good for Twitter or Truth.

 

[Florida173]

If there’s history of bad decision in the hiring freeze process you would think someone would say hey learn from our failure.

I feel like we're working for different governments

 

[BloodStripe]

I feel like we're working for different governments

Maybe I must felt like being a glass half full type of person tonight.

 

[Muppet]