$80M from the AF alone.
Government Waste and Corruption thread
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According to this article it's even more: https://www.sfgate.com/bayarea/article/newsom-orders-state-employees-return-to-office-20202884.php
So wait, there were THAT MANY people not even working 4 days a week in the office in California? Good thing they're not in a deficit, all all public services are in such great shape.
Gov't Purchase Cards are now frozen. At least we've been told what one or two specific things we can't do but then used vague definitions for words resulting in numerous questions which have gone unanswered. We also don't need those to ship anything via Fed Ex like...oh, wait.
Could we just get some solid guidance for once? That's all we really want is guidance or at least reach out beforehand and ask "What are the impacts if we do x by y date?"
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As an aside the money we're going to shell out in back pay over the firings will be epic, BTW.
Could we just get some solid guidance for once? That's all we really want is guidance or at least reach out beforehand and ask "What are the impacts if we do x by y date?"
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As an aside the money we're going to shell out in back pay over the firings will be epic, BTW.
I found a Fed who needs to go:
Dude here needs a Sec+ cert to do his job, but doesn't have one. He went to a boot camp where they taught the exam and not the material (by his own admission).
He failed the exam and a gov't voucher is covering the cost of the exams. I don't know if the gov't paid for his boot camp, but...you couldn't brain dump the Sec+? What? You gotta' go, son.
Dude here needs a Sec+ cert to do his job, but doesn't have one. He went to a boot camp where they taught the exam and not the material (by his own admission).
He failed the exam and a gov't voucher is covering the cost of the exams. I don't know if the gov't paid for his boot camp, but...you couldn't brain dump the Sec+? What? You gotta' go, son.
Now there is a pause to giving any new warrants out to Contracting Officers. Military personnel are exempt from this.
I just want someone to have it make sense. I have been deployed as a GS doing contingency contracting. The person I relieved was military and the person who relieved me was military. So what’s the difference? Am I planning to recommend anyone a warrant in the next few weeks? Most likely no, but it’s the lack of foresight on these decision making processes that are mind boggling.
I’d rather have a civilian GS making purchases than a military member given the sheer number of years experience and expertise between the two but nobody cares what I think and nobody has the balls to say otherwise to Supreme Leader.
What it comes down to is the people that were put in charge have no idea how this machine works, but they're responsible for 'cleaning it up.' I, and I believe most of you, agree that it needs to be cleaned up, but this is not it.
SpongeBob*24
Verified Military
Makes sense now...
They should've yanked a couple handfuls of 1102s and assign them to DOGE. Nobody's going to understand the gov't spending process better. But that probably would have required serious paperwork, time and funding.
I'm all for slashing the waste, and we all know there's plenty of abuse...
Do it right now rather than do it right.
Do it right now, otherwise it won't happen.
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This, I think they know their window is very narrow and can always go back and fix any oopses.
Pure gold!
Welp, I had to spend my day searching for contracts to make sure we didn’t specify anything with paper straws.
We’re also currently going through a handful of our service contracts to make sure there is no consulting in them. The determination and approval that those are either essential or non-essential must be a flag or SES.
It’s great to know we have solved all our national security problems since our SEC DEF is more concerned about paper straws than rockets and bombs.
We’re also currently going through a handful of our service contracts to make sure there is no consulting in them. The determination and approval that those are either essential or non-essential must be a flag or SES.
It’s great to know we have solved all our national security problems since our SEC DEF is more concerned about paper straws than rockets and bombs.
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