Didn't they teach the feds how not to have a $170M IT failure?

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Ever worked a government job?

David,

A government cush job is the last refuge of the incompetent. Anytime you have an organization that promotes based on seniority and quotas rather than competence is doomed to be incompetence. When the CIO of a private organization screws up like this, they get fired. When it happens in the government, it?s no big deal since everyone is like that. You?ve got a culture of ?don?t rock the boat?. You?ve got an organization that doesn?t loose revenue because of incompetence; they gain revenue by drawing deeper and deeper on the tax payer?s pockets. No government organization ever looses its budget, and they?ll complain about a budget cut whenever they don?t get as big a boost as they would have liked. In the private sector, it?s routine to have your budget cut and still be expected to do more. If half your staff gets laid off, everyone else has to pick up the slack. This is an alien concept in the government.

This is true of any government job.

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